I started blogging about the public affairs 2.0 in November 2011. At the time, I was a newbie to the world of lobbying and digital marketing. I understood that the social media was a game changer to the way internet will be utilised for the policy campaigns and to influence people. Facebook and Twitter were still novel communication tools to… Read more →
Proliferation of smartphones, internet and social media has enabled us to tell fascinating stories in an interactive way. We can curate our life’s and display them to our friends and people around the world as if we were superheroes, James Bond’s or superstars. Democratisation of communication enabled all of us to become a star in our own special way, within… Read more →
The ‘Right to be forgotten’ online is extremely important for future society. As it would allow for a procedure to take down information that can be incriminating or have other unforeseen negative consequences, especially in the long-term. This is rather controversial, as it can be misused to censor freedom of speech. However, ‘right to be forgotten’ should be ensured for… Read more →
The 4th of July is usually known as American Independence Day, but in 2012 it’s been overshadowed by events in Europe. First it was rejection of Anti-Counterfeiting Treaty Agreement in the European Parliament at around 1PM. Which was rejected by 478 MEPs, while 165 MEPs absteined from the vote and only 39 MEPs voted for it. As soon as we… Read more →
Last Tuesday, I attended an event at the European Parliament on the Internet Governance. It’s one in a series of events discussing the future of the Internet from the perspective of government. Governance of the Internet is usually divided into two parts, a technological part, from a perspective of an engineer, and a regulatory view taken from the perspective of… Read more →
On 4th of June, European Parliament hosted European Writers´ Council 2012 Authors´ Rights Conference on ´Striking the Right Balance between access, fair remuneration and authors´ rights´ MEP Marielle Gallo provided a welcoming and tour d´horizon. Apart from her political life as an MEP she’s also an author who feels strongly about IP protection, as well as staunch pro-ACTA supporter. She… Read more →
Last Friday, 1st of June, Green Group hosted a conference of the Green Partie’s press officers and webmasters. Amelia is part of the Green group, therefore I had an opportunity to attend and learn about how to best utilise new media in order to connect with people. The first module in the morning was discussion about blurring of lines between… Read more →
This upcoming Tuesday, 15th of May, Ms Amelia´s Andersdotter´s office is organising a book launch inside the European Parliament. The book ´SHARING: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age´ is written by a Net culture scholar Philippe Aigrain, with contributions from his daughter, Suzanne Aigrain. As the title of the book suggests, it describes file sharing of digital cultural… Read more →
The first meeting was held on Tuesday, based on ´New forms of online advertising´, as current trademark laws are complex and impose particular burden on SME´s (Small-medium enterprises). European Commission is proposing to harmonise trademark regulations acrossEurope, between different national laws. So that small and medium size companies could take full advantage of access to the global market that the… Read more →
European Commission has initiated reforms to the Data protection directive and regulations for the public and private sector. Current patchwork of national rules with current European legal framework, were drawn up in the early 90s and came into force in 1995, at the time only 1% of European population were using the internet. These outdated laws put uncertainty on creating… Read more →