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Digital Public Space – A Missing Policy Frame for Shaping Europe's Digital Future

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021

The 2030 Digital Compass, a key European Union strategic document that defines a digital policy f... more The 2030 Digital Compass, a key European Union strategic document that defines a digital policy for this decade, opens with a sketch of the current context: the COVID-19 pandemic. It mentions that technologies are now imperative in all fields of social life, a truth well established by the idea of digitization yet only confirmed this year. It also notes the vulnerabilities and risks of using the digital space, highlighting disinformation and dependency on non-European technologies, in line with a regulatory approach mitigating harm, which has become visible over the last five years. Finally, it praises disruptive innovation, using the example of COVID-19 vaccines but frames development within market-based growth and innovation as core digital policy goals;however, this paragraph tellingly fails to mention the EU’s huge public investment in supporting vaccine development. Similarly, it doesn’t mention the even-more-urgent challenge of building a true digital society, which is at once resilient and just, democratic and diverse (Tarkowski 2021). In this article, we use the concept of policy frames to analyse the core goals and approaches of current and previous European digital policies. We track a shift from the Digital Single Market frame, championed by the previous Commission, to a new approach established by Ursula von der Leyen and her Commission through the Shaping Europe’s Digital Future strategy. We define the shift as a digital constitutionalist turn characterized by a bold policy reform program that aims to fix digital markets. We point to the lack of a clear policy frame and argue that Europe’s digital strategy would be strengthened by policies based on a digital public sphere. Introducing this policy imaginary, accompanied by a mission-driven approach at the core of policymaking, would strengthen European digital policies and allow them to attain the current twin-transition ambition of the European Commission: a digital and green transformation. Finally, we present entry points and initial principles for introducing this policy frame, highlighting existing policy initiatives that are already aligned with a digital public sphere perspective.

Images of the Past. 7 years of Images for the Future

textabstractOver a period of seven years Sound and Vision, EYE Film Institute, the National Archi... more textabstractOver a period of seven years Sound and Vision, EYE Film Institute, the National Archives and Kennisland preserved over 90,000 hours of video, 20,000 hours of film, some 100,000 hours of audio and 2,500,000 photos. The digitised material is now being reused for numerous purposes, from lesson material and Wikipedia to apps and services for the creative industry. Images for the Future has played a pioneering role in both the development of large-scale digitisation processes and the thinking on the role of heritage organisations in our digital society.

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