Open Internet Governance Institute

Open Internet Governance Institute

About the Open Internet Governance Institute

The Open Internet Governance Institute aims to contribute to shape the debates on the Internet, data and digital governance with a European scope, while contributing to a better understanding of how to use AI-related tools and data to support and improve policy making.

We aim to contribute to improve the quality of the debates, in a balanced and evidence-based manner, with the objective of offering practical policy solutions for policy-makers. Our ultimate goal is to support the building of a global and open Internet governance system, fostering the best possible digital environment for the society of the future.

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Potential risks and unintended effects of the new EU Digital Markets Act
Carmelo Cennamo, Juan Santaló
16 Feb, 2023

The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is the new flagship European regulation aimed at increasing contestability in digital markets. In the current context on which there is a renewed political will to favor the emergence of European tech champions and secure European economic sovereignty, the DMA may help to establish a more even level-playing field for […]
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Future learning: Innovation, opportunities and challenges of immersive technology in education technology
26 OCT, 2022

Ayer celebramos en Esade Madrid el primer evento del Open Internet Governance Institute. En Future learning: Innovation, opportunities and challenges of immersive technology in education technology, se abordó el presente y futuro de las nuevas tecnologías y los espacios digitales en la educación. El ministro de Universidades, Joan Subirats, abrió el evento y remarcó que “si […]
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Data Science for Social Good: The Valencian Example during the COVID-19 pandemic
Nuria Oliver
18 Jul, 2022

Data Science is a discipline of tremendous value in the public sector for at least two essential reasons: (i) it enables the design of public policies based on data and evidence, as opposed to intuitions, obsolete information, or political interests (ii) it allows the necessary empirical evaluation of the impact of the deployed public policies, to determine their strengths and weaknesses.
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Transatlantic Data Sovereignty: How to Achieve Privacy-proof Data Flows between the EU and the US
Matthias Bauer
12 Apr, 2022

→ The state of the problem. The European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruled in July 2020 that in the US there is no sufficient level of protection for personal data of EU citizens, thus invalidating the 2016 US-EU Privacy  Shield agreement that served as a basis for transatlantic data transfers. Recently, theEuropean Commission and the […]
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The US-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC): State of Play, Issues and Challenges for the Transatlantic Relationship
Raquel Jorge Ricart, José Ignacio Torreblanca
24 Jan, 2022

La relación trasatlántica se encuentra en un momento de reconstrucción que parte con coincidencias en los objetivos, pero viene acompañado de diferencias cruciales en la estrategia para lograrlos.
Board of advisors
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Nuria Oliver

Scientific Director and co-founder of the ELLIS Alicante Foundation; PhD in Computer Science (MIT Media Lab); member of the European Association of Artificial Intelligence, the IEEE, the Academia Europaea and the Royal Spanish Academy of Engineering.

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Josep Piqué

Managing Director of Foreign Policy, Chairman of ITP Aero, former Minister of Foreign Affairs (2000-02) and Minister of Science and Technology (2002-03).

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José Ignacio Torreblanca

Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations in Madrid, Professor of Political Science at UNED.

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Jordi Sevilla

Senior Advisor and Director of the Economic Context Area at Llorente y Cuenca, former Minister of Public Administration of Spain (2004-07) and Chairman of Red Eléctrica de España (2018-20).

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Cecilia Álvarez

Lawyer and Europe, the Middle East and Africa Privacy Policy Director at Meta.

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Víctor Lapuente

Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg and visiting professor at ESADE. President of Foro de Foros and columnist at El País.

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Jose María Lassalle

Director of the Forum for Technological Humanism at ESADE and Professor of Philosophy of Law at Comillas Pontifical University (ICADE). He was Spain’s Secretary of State for the Information Society and Digital Agenda (2016-18).

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Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell

Full Professor of Commercial Law at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and a current board member of the European Law Institute. She has held the Harris Manchester College Chair of Excellence at the University of Oxford.

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Esteban Moro

Researcher, data scientist and professor at Universidad Carlos III (UC3M), and visiting professor at the MIT Media Lab and MIT Connection Science at IDSS.

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Joan Santaló

Professor of Strategic Management at IE Business School, PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.

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Irene Unceta

Associate Professor, Department of Operations, Innovation and Data Sciences at ESADE, PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Barcelona.

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