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HOW the INTERNET GOT TRUMP ELECTED the IIC's Telecommunications and Media Forum (TMF) 2017 Taking the Debate Around the World JANUARY 2017 | VOLUME 44 | ISSUE 4 PLATFORM OR PUBLISHER? Companies such as Facebook are publishing much content – are they media or carriers? CONNECTED CARS Autonomous vehicles are coming – and with them a raft of regulatory concerns UNCOVERING US PRIVACY LAW Developments in America’s privacy regime are analysed by Aaron Burstein and Joshua Bercu VIRTUAL NETWORKS THE WORLD’S MOST INFLUENTIAL TELECOMS AND MEDIA POLICY, REGULATORY AFFAIRS AND COMPLIANCE JOURNAL A briefing on how telecoms is going virtual HOW THE INTERNET GOT TRUMP ELECTED The IIC's Telecommunications and Media Forum (TMF) 2017 Taking the debate around the world... Dates for 2017 Join the IIC 21-23 March 2017, Doha Members can May 2017, Miami Dec 2017, Washington DC attend TMF meetings free of charge The IIC is a platform that brings Discussion topics together regulators and Innovation and investment stakeholders for the exchange of Governance ideas and experiences which, in Spectrum my view, is the most valuable way Privacy and security to push forward new polices and Competition projects Content Jose M. Marín-Quemada President CNMC, Spain Plus 5G Connectivity Visit www.iicom.org The Digital Ecosystem Call +44 (0) 20 8544 8076 The Internet of Things Join the IIC's LinkedIn community for year round debate Shaping the Policy Agenda JANUARY 2017 | VOLUME 44 | ISSUE 4 CONTENTS THE INTERNET CONUNDRUM www.iicom.org The International Institute of Communications is the world’s leading independent, non-profit, Just when you thought things couldn’t get any membership forum engaged with digital more uncertain and dynamic in our telecoms media policy and regulatory affairs. and media world along come events that raise IIC activities cover issues in telecommunications, broadcasting and the internet. the most fundamental questions about Intermedia editorial enquiries: cooperation, transparency and democracy [email protected] itself. I refer to the impending UK exit from the EU (Brexit), Intermedia subscription and the election of Donald Trump, and the rapid rise of concern IIC membership enquiries: Joanne Grimshaw, about interference with elections and the proliferation of [email protected] fake news, the latter at least being in play in the UK and IIC Intermedia © International Institute of the US, and which is being taken seriously now in other Communications and contributors 2017 countries such as Germany. The internet of course is the Follow us: enabler of fake news and hacking, but as Eli Noam explains in this edition, it is also an underpinning force in many @The_IIC aspects of society now, having effects on societal Watch speakers at IIC events on: fragmentation, employment and inequality, and even political gridlock. I cast no political direction here, but 2016 www.youtube.com/user/TheIICom Further content and details are available may have shown that there is even more to the internet’s on the IIC website: influence than we knew. Chris Chapman, president, IIC www.iicom.org 18 STRESS TESTING US PRIVACY An analysis of two major planks of US privacy regulation 22 HOW THE INTERNET GOT TRUMP ELECTED The factors that combined to help elect the new US president have the internet as a common denominator 26 PLATFORM OR PUBLISHER? Are social media firms such as Facebook really media players, not technology platforms? 32 REPORTING ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE New reports shows the profound challenges of AI 33 VIRTUAL NETWORKS 2 NEWS Richard Feasey discusses network virtualisation A round-up of global TMT news and events 37 INTERNET GOVERNANCE AND IGF16 4 IIC ANNUAL CONFERENCE The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is much more than a Our report from the IIC’s flagship event UN talking shop, reckons Wolfgang Kleinwächter 10 EUROPE’S AGENDA 40 FACILITATING INNOVATION Georg Serentschy sets out the agenda for Europe in 2017 Regulation in the era of the internet of things 12 ROAD AHEAD FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES 42 A FRAMEWORK FOR OTT A collision of societal and regulatory issues Europe’s new draft code is in the spotlight www.iicom.org January 2017 Vol 44 Issue 4 | InterMEDIA 1 NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE CHILDREN GLOBAL KIDS ONLINE A majority of children say they learn something new online at least every week, but large numbers still face risks online, according to a report by a new initiative, Global Kids Online, produced by the UNICEF Ofce of Research and the London School of Economics. The project, launched at the Children’s Lives in the Digital Age seminar held at UNICEF in New York, aims to build a global network of researchers investigating the risks and opportunities of child internet use, and a website is making research tools freely available worldwide. Another fnding is that although a majority of children value the internet as a learning tool, they are rarely able to use it at school or to receive guidance from Above: a latest autonomous car concept, from Toyota. The European Commission has adopted a their teachers on how to use it. For details see: European strategy on cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS), which it says is a ‘milestone globalkidsonline.net towards cooperative, connected and automated mobility’ – see bit.ly/2jddsPX INTERNET GOVERNANCE CANADA CONCERNS ABOUT THE INTERNET BROADBAND IS BASIC The Internet Society has urged the global community to redouble its The Canadian Radio-television and eforts in addressing the wave of unprecedented challenges facing the Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has internet. The organisation’s CEO, Kathryn Brown, speaking at the 11th declared that broadband internet service is now Internet Governance Forum in Mexico, said: “The open, trusted, global considered a basic telecoms service for all internet has delivered on its promise as a tool to change lives, enhance Canadians, and is setting ‘ambitious’ new speed growth and provide essential human services – but the progress is uneven targets and creating a fund that will invest up and threatened by challenges that have grown.” to CND$750 million over and above existing The lack of afordable access to the internet and the disparity in levels of government programmes. The targets are: access across the world remain key challenges. Internet growth rates are l Speeds of 50 (mbps) download/10 mbps upload slowing, resulting in a deepening digital divide between those with access for fxed services and those without. In addition, issues such as blocking of content, privacy, l An unlimited data option mass surveillance, cybercrime, hacking and fake news are all contributing l Latest mobile wireless technology not only in to what is now a growing global erosion of trust among users. “Multiple homes and businesses, but also along major roads. security issues are damaging user confdence and have emerged as the Further, service providers should ensure that existential threat to the future of the internet. We must act now to reverse contracts are written in clear language, and should this trend,” added Brown. make available tools so consumers can easily As internet adoption and connectivity continue to grow, with 45% of the manage their data usage; and all wireless service population online, so do the number of cyber-attacks. Mexico ranks as the providers will have to ofer mobile service second country with the largest number of cyber-attacks in Latin America packages that meet the needs of Canadians with after Brazil, with a 40% increase in reported cyber-attacks in 2014 alone. disabilities. See bit.ly/2hebsJR “We still have time – but there is urgency,” she concluded. “We must work together now to solve these signifcant emerging challenges facing the internet, using the value in the multi-stakeholder model and the power PRIVACY of collaboration to ofer solutions for connecting the unconnected and LEVELLING THE FIELD increasing user trust.” The European Commission has proposed a new n The Internet Society, with Microsoft, has completed a series of meetings regulation on privacy and electronic communications on internet fragmentation, which has become an important issue in that it says will update existing rules and ofer the context of the global internet. The Global Commission on Internet more business opportunities. The current e-privacy Governance has also published a volume on internet fragmentation. directive only applies to telecoms operators, so rules n The Global Commission on Internet Governance has issued another will also cover new providers such as WhatsApp, paper, ‘Corporate accountability for a free and open internet’. Facebook Messenger, Skype, Gmail and iMessage and, n The Global Network Initiative (GNI) has released a policy brief with once consent is given for communications data, both recommendations for governments and companies to protect and respect content and/or metadata, to be processed, traditional free expression and privacy rights when responding to the challenge of telecoms operators will have more opportunities to alleged extremist or terrorist content online. See bit.ly/2d2Bc6K use data. See bit.ly/2i99Kd5 2 InterMEDIA | January 2017 Vol 44 Issue 4 www.iicom.org EVENTS 6-9 February, Geneva Digital Radio Week, EBU 22 February-2 March, Barcelona EUROPE Mobile World Congress 21-23 March, Doha ANALYSING THE COMMUNICATIONS CODE IIC Telecommunications and There has been broad support for the respective markets, or indeed from Digital Media Forum (TMF) European Commissions’s proposed deregulating where justifed. 17-19 May, Edinburgh Electronic Communications Code, Also welcome is the proposed European Platform of Regulatory including from BEREC, the
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