Policy

On October 4th, C4DT brought together 20 stakeholders from the Swiss service public sector, administration, politics, civil society and academia to discuss the relationship between digital platforms and traditional physical public services. The goal was to explore the need for action, room for maneuver, and potential initiatives to develop recommendations…

Are the recently adopted (or still negotiated) international rules regulating the development, (crossborder) sales, marketing, and use of software in the best interest of technologists and the tech industry? In this issue brief, C4DT Digital Trust Policy Fellow Leonila Guglya critically examines international digital product regulations that are of key…

By Imad Aad, Technical Project Manager, C4DT *This blog post has been written as part of the Geneva Dialogue on Responsible Behavior in Cyberspace.   Everyone can develop software, and the resulting quality can vary considerably. There is no single ‘right way’ to write code and reach a given goal.…

Susskind, J. (2022). The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century. London: Bloomsbury, 464 pages. By Melanie Kolbe-Guyot Jamie Susskind’s book, “The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century (Bloomsbury 2022), addresses the issue of the unaccountable, hence undemocratic, power exerted by Big Tech.…

Van Dijck, J., Poell, T. and M. de Waal (2018). The Platform Society. Public Values in a Connective World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 226 pages. By Matthias Finger This book is already five years old and probably older if one considers the time of writing, an eternity when it comes…

This blog post was written by our C4DT Digital Trust Policy Fellow, Leonila Guglya. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author. They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of C4DT or EPFL. On 18 June 2023, the citizens of the canton of Geneva…