Spotlight: Nighat Dad on bringing local contexts in policy and product design

Nighat Dad on bringing local contexts into policy and product design and on platforms negotiating between the global and the local. Nighat was speaking on a Platform Futures panel discussion Mobile Ecosystems: Opportunities and Challenges in the Asia-Pacific hosted by Digital Asia Hub on June 9. Through a new program on Platform Futures, the Digital[…]

Dr Graham Greenleaf AM on Australia’s platform regulations and data protection laws

Dr Graham Greenleaf AM Professor of Law & Information Systems at UNSW Australia and Co-Founder, AustLII, on Australia’s platform regulations and data protection laws, data protection trends in Asia, and the future of the Internet. Through a new program on Platform Futures, the Digital Asia Hub convenes a network of academics and experts studying multiple[…]

Spotlight: Siddharth Narrain on platforms and content moderation

Siddharth Narrain (University of New South Wales) on platforms and the challenge of content moderation. Siddharth was speaking on a Platform Futures panel discussion Mobile Ecosystems: Opportunities and Challenges in the Asia-Pacific hosted by Digital Asia Hub on June 9.   Through a new program on Platform Futures, the Digital Asia Hub convenes a network[…]

Pandemic strengthens China’s platforms as infrastructure providers

After strict lockdown measures went into place in China, nearly all commercial activity shifted online. E-commerce expanded its reach in the form of rural live-streaming (村播): farmers-turned-online-hosts selling fresh produce and the nostalgia of the countryside to tens of millions of urban consumers glued to their smartphones at home. The exchange is simple. Using apps[…]