The interjection of nationalist politics into standards setting, particularly in areas where global technological coordination is important for increasing the supply of and access to public goods, is of considerable concern. Globalization of trade, investment and technology flows places increasing pressures on national regulations of all kinds, ranging from competition regulation to financial standards such as capital requirements. Whether and how these regulations should be subject to greater multilateral or global coordination is a central policy issue.

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I have always been interested in Privacy, Security and Reputation from a research perspective. The Tech Policy blog has a good overview of the basics of Data privacy law to commemorate Data privacy day . They start by saying that ‘the United States doesn’t have a single, overarching data privacy law. Instead, data privacy is regulated by many different statutes and rules at the federal and state levels.’
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Innovations need to satisfy interoperability criteria more and more, which is the “ability of information and communication technology (ICT) systems as well as, of the business processes they support in order to exchange data and enable the sharing of information and knowledge” (IDABC).
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