“No Time for Tech Fatalism” »

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13 September 2017 | Per Strömbäck

Three Questions to Evarist Bartolo, Minister for Education and Employment of Malta The air is humming with buzzwords like “life-long learning”, “automation” and “upskill” at the Estonian presidency... »

Springtime for the Hive Mind »

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8 September 2017 | Per Strömbäck, Editor of Netopia

3 Questions to Epi Ludvik Nikaj, founder of Crowdsourcing Week-conference The first promise of the internet was democratisation – new voices would be heard and a plethora of expressions would flouris... »

Digital Single Market: The Loser Consumer »

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6 July 2017 | Per Strömbäck, Editor of Netopia

3 Questions to Felipe Florez Duncan, co-author of The impact of cross-border access to audiovisual content on EU consumers. The convenience of accessing film and TV programmes throughout a digitall... »

Fake News as Propaganda »

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26 June 2017 | Jason Christie, free-lance journalist.

3 Questions to Martin Hoffmann – Fake-news! It’s a defamation against journalists, extolled President of the European Federation of Journalists, Mogens Blicher Bjerregård at the recent ECPMF confer... »

The Winner Takes All: Recipe for Disaster »

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22 June 2017 | Per Strömbäck, Editor of Netopia.

3 Questions to Jonathan Taplin, author of Move Fast and Break Things In the third decade of the commercial internet, concentration of power and money is greater than ever. Will this process stop or... »

The Life & Death-Issue of Cyber-Security »

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6 April 2017 | Per Strömbäck, Editor of Netopia

3Questions to Andrey Suvorov, Kaspersky Lab Cyber-security is a big part of the debates around the digital policy agenda in Europe. But what is cyber-security, what are the threats and what is the ... »

The Turtle and the Unicorn: A Silicon Valley Fable »

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28 March 2017 | Netopia

Welcome to the New World* is the title of an essay by Mathilde Ramadier, telling the story of how she survived the “coolitude” of startups in Berlin’s version of Silicon Valley. Netopia asked for more... »

A robot barista? »

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3 March 2017 | Per Strömbäck, Editor of Netopia

3 Questions to Aleks Afanasyev, Product Specialist at CafeX Netopia tried a robot-made espresso at CafeX in San Francisco’s Metreon center. With the recent debates about robot tax and jobs lost to ... »

“The Digital Single Market will not lead to large-scale price effects throughout Europe” »

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19 December 2016 | Per Strömbäck, Editor of Netopia

3 Questions to Nathalie Vandystadt, European Commission spokesperson for the Digital Single Market. Per Strömbäck: On November 28, EU member states agreed to ban unjustified geo-blocking between me... »

“Final battle between companies providing infrastructure from overseas and European content” »

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| Per Strömbäck, Editor of Netopia

3 Questions to Tobias Schmid, Executive Vice-President Governmental Affairs RTL Group Per Strömbäck: I’ld like to ask you some questions about news because news are an important part of our society... »