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The internet has enabled companies to go global before they go national by leveraging e-commerce platforms, social media, and websites to find suppliers, customers, and partners anywhere in the world. Companies can develop and provide professional services, software, apps, games, and support from anywhere to anyone, collaborating with partners around the world with just the click of a button. This [...]
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Regulators around the world are confronting the challenge of securing our increasingly connected societies and economies. The EU and China will both soon release major cybersecurity regulations and many other governments are either finalizing or drafting similar regulations. A major source of discussion in the development of these regulations involves the security implications of the location of data. [...]
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As we have described in our blog series, the complex challenge of forced localization requires thoughtful, tailored solutions at both the domestic and international levels. ITI and our partners DIGITALEUROPE and JEITA—in Brussels and Tokyo, respectively—have consistently presented a united, international industry front against forced localization measures. As such, this final blog in our series outlines [...]
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The internet has allowed people and businesses to become connected at a scale once thought unimaginable. With just the click of a button families can share photos, banks can process loans, universities can share research, and so much more. Alongside the growth of these positive innovations, however, cyber criminals have become increasingly sophisticated, and there has been a corresponding increase [...]
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Today, companies, individuals, governments, and institutions can instantaneously transfer information from one end of the globe to the other. Indeed, data transfers underpin the global economy, drive communications and social interaction, and form the foundation of a seemingly limitless number of data-driven technologies and services we take for granted and depend on. Unfortunately, regulators in both [...]
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The tech industry is the most dynamic sector in history: it is highly competitive, profitable, and creates jobs around the world. Its products and services have lowered barriers to empower people in ways proven to accelerate poverty reduction, raise standards of living, and help connect people in rural areas to financial and welfare systems that had previously been in distant population centers. Technology [...]
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The global economy depends on the free movement of data. By data, I simply mean information, like emails, sales history, satellite imagery, crop yields, traffic density reports, and search results. When digital technologies--including servers, personal computers, and mobile devices—process, analyze, and transmit data, it flows through the internet and across national borders seamlessly. With the rapid [...]
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Bringing cutting edge products and services to markets around the world in record time is what the tech industry does best. To help accomplish this, companies aim to manufacture a product to meet a common set of internationally accepted technical standards for things such as product safety, electromagnetic interference (EMI), and telecommunications functionality. They then seek to test the product [...]
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The internet has enabled companies to go global before they go national by leveraging e-commerce platforms, social media, and websites to find suppliers, customers, and partners anywhere in the world. Companies can develop and provide professional services, software, apps, games, and support from anywhere to anyone, collaborating with partners around the world with just the click of a button. This [...]
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In 2008, as the escalating financial crisis called into question continued global economic growth and innovation, the leaders of the world’s leading economies pledged in the G-20 forum to combat the forces of protectionism by maintaining an open trade and investment environment. Unfortunately, many of these same governments have since found creative ways to protect domestic companies at the expense [...]
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