The Global Media & Internet Concentration Project (GMCIP): Tracking two-dozen communication, Internet and media markets in nearly 40 countries. The GMCIP are pleased to announce the launch of their project’s very own website and further details for their Summer 2022 Conference: Digital Communications and Media Markets: Power, Policy and Global Perspectives. For further reading please… [Read More]
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Future Leaders Competiton 2022
Our 2022 competition for future leaders is now open for entries. A fantastic opportunity to have your entry published in the IIC’s journal, InterMedia, and even present to the sector’s most senior #TMT stakeholders from around the world. This year’s competition topic is: Across the Metaverse: Policy priorities. The deadline for entries is 20 June 2022. Find… [Read More]
Round-up of the latest industry news – March 2022
Regulatory Watch A study from Oxford University on the impact of GDPR in the EU suggests that, while all tech companies have been negatively impacted, the largest players have coped better with the administrative burden and may have grown market share at the expense of smaller firms. The study concludes that, while the regulation has… [Read More]
IIC Metaverse Blog – The meeting of worlds
The meeting of worlds – exploring the impacts of the metaverse Widely discussed and promoted, the promise of the metaverse as the next great technology leap presents many questions: what is it, what could it be, and what are the implications for policymakers. So it was that, as part of this year’s Asia TMF, the… [Read More]
EVOLUTION, INNOVATION, CONNECTION
The year 2022 marks 100 years of the BBC and therefore a century of public service broadcasting. Public service broadcasters (PSBs) from around the world were among the founding members of the IIC and, in this issue of Intermedia, Patrick Barwise examines the challenges they face in today’s highly competitive audiovisual landscape and their importance… [Read More]
Round-up of the latest industry news – February 2022
Regulatory Watch Meta has suggested that Facebook and Instagram face being shut down in Europe if new models for transatlantic data transfer are not adopted. EU regulators are scrutinising the agreements, including the ‘Privacy Shield’, that enable Meta to store data from European users on US servers. Meanwhile, the company has promoted Sir Nick Clegg… [Read More]