Airbnb's platform connects hosts across Asia Pacific (APAC) with travellers from around the world. Oxford Economics was commissioned by Airbnb to quantify its economic footprint in 10 APAC markets in 2024.| Oxford Economics
Since its launch in 2021, Starlink has quickly gained global traction, expanding rapidly and attracting a growing user base across 105 countries. Many countries have welcomed Starlink as a promising solution to bridge the digital divide, bringing high-speed internet to remote and underserved areas. Yet not all governments have embraced it; some have indeed resisted[...]| Plum Consulting
In the white paper “How to Master Europe’s Infrastructure Needs”, published in February 2024, the European Commission presented its views on the future of connectivity and potential implications for European telecommunication policy. The Ministry of Economic Affairs in the Netherlands commissioned Plum and our partners for this project, Stratix, to analyse and explain the underlying[...] The post Understanding the European Commission’s vision for digital infrastructure appeared first ...| Plum Consulting
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to permeate across different industry sectors, offering unprecedented opportunities alongside significant risks. Effective governance necessitates coordinated cross-border efforts to build institutional expertise, dispel misconceptions, foster innovation, and align global safety priorities. Advocating structured dialogue and a bottom-up approach, Oscar Borgogno and Alessandra Perrazzelli present a proposal which aims to avoid institutional redundancy and...| ProMarket
Back at the end of June, Canada passed C-18, aka “The Online News Act,” a law designed to make Google and Facebook negotiate with news providers for linking to news. In theory, C-18 is based on the Australia News Media Bargaining Code, which Australia adopted in 2021. It also follows...Continue reading| Wetmachine
Every now and then, I do some legislative drafting. I tend to get pushback on my habit of including a bunch of legislative findings and statements of policy, and what some consider my over-detailed definitions. The usual challenge I get is| Wetmachine
The European Commission’s White Paper “How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs?” makes radical proposals to expand both the reach and the depth of the European Electronic Communications Code to many new players in the broader Internet ecosystem. This report analyses the context of these proposals, how the Commission justifies them, who they might affect[...]| Plum Consulting