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Happening tomorrow! Commentary on the #AfCFTA Digital Trade Protocol 📅March 13, 2024 🕓4:00pm EAT (GMT +3) Register here➡️ cutt.ly/Dw1pK0b8 #AfCFTADigitalProtocol

This Dani Rodrik piece ends: "By the 1990s...large corporations & multinationals, empowered by the expansion of the global economy, increasingly drove trade negotiations. The environment, public health, human rights, economic security, and domestic equity took a back seat...

Lograr la compatibilidad entre las normas comerciales y otras cuestiones cruciales de la gobernanza digital, como la privacidad o la seguridad es una tarea compleja, por no decir que roza lo imposible. Escribe Burcu Kilic CIGI politicaexterior.com/la-confianza-c…

What can be achieved by the global CBPR framework or the Data Free Flow with Trust initiative? Organised by Brussels Privacy Hub and Cerre EU with So Stalla-Bourdillon, Bruno Gencarelli EU Justice, Svetlana Yakovleva De Brauw, Burcu Kilic CIGI, Alex Joel American University Washington College of Law, Arif Wider HTW Berlin #CPDPai2024

Clearly, we need a new global architecture. My latest for Foreign Policy foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/28/glo…

In this political economy, today, we need to reframe the links and trade offs around competition, industrial policy & trade. We are in a #postneoliberal world, time to discuss what it means. /end

Here is my latest on Apple Vision Pro & spatial computing! Groundbreaking tech with lots to admire, but it brings new challenges: e.g. spatial data & mapping. We need proactive solutions. Let's not wait until it's too late—history has a way of repeating itself.

Read this article on the #AfCFTA and Digital Governance by CIGI Senior Fellow, Burcu Kilic here➡️theuskenyaftainsights.org/article/22/%20… #digitaltrade

You can take the girl out of the IP world, but not the IP out of the girl! Diving back into IP policy, I tried to shed light on the crucial yet overlooked trade secrets & their impact on transparency & accountability in AI. Let’s rethink trade secrets law!

It’s hard to overstate the importance of the top of U.S. Trade saying this in today’s Financial Times. Trade neoliberal “powers that be” in Europe & the trade/industrial policy/competition siloes are so totally behind the curve. Ambassador Katherine Tai ft.com/content/91f22f…

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Big loss. Terrible decision. I and Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge have worked with MSF Access Campaign team since 2004 when India changed its patent laws to comply with the WTO TRIPS agreement. They've been pivotal pushing for making medicines more available/affordable globally. statnews.com/pharmalot/2024…

While there is no definitive answer as to how AI should be regulated, a work-centric approach should be taken. "By placing workers at the heart of AI policy development, we can ensure a more prosperous future for all," writes Burcu Kilic. Details: cigionline.org/articles/we-ne…

Former Digital Civil Society Lab Fellows Nicole Ozer & Burcu Kilic have been selected by Harvard Carr Center as 2024-25 Technology & Human Rights Fellows! They will join a cohort dedicated to exploring the theme of “Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy: Who Knows, Who Decides?" bit.ly/3WO5MbI

I wrote a piece about Kamala Harris’s views on corporate power and why her silence is risky. nytimes.com/2024/08/07/opi…

Without proactive regulatory intervention, WhatsApp could easily evolve into a super app under Meta’s monopolistic control. "The numerous Facebook scandals we’ve witnessed ... provide a stark reminder of what can happen when Meta goes unchecked," writes Burcu Kilic. Details:

Meta has confessed that it may train its AI on any image you ask its VR glasses to analyze. There is no opt out. Attn: FTC @linakhanFTC h/t: Ed Newton-Rex techcrunch.com/2024/10/02/met…

📣 NEW: Handbook of #Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights by Walter G. Park 🆓 chapter available at: doi.org/10.4337/978180… Contributors include: Gaétan de Rassenfosse @fab_montobbio Charles Duan @gmdutfield Uma Suthersanen Prof@Qmul Gabriele Pellegrino valerio sterzi Burcu Kilic Serdal TEMEL Dr Mafini Dosso #IP

NEW: Amidst a frenzy around public AI investment in Europe, our new report takes us back to the drawing board. What kind of (digital) future does Europe want? What role can (should) AI play? Who should have a say? Read expert perspectives: ainowinstitute.org/redirecting-eu… 1/

Silicon Valley firms have been pitching the defense community hard on AI uses for military contexts. This needs much closer scrutiny from policymakers, Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف), Meredith Whittaker and I argue in a new paper released today: defenseone.com/technology/202…