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Digital governance

Who decides, who controls, who is accountable?

Understanding digital governance from end to end: its history, its mechanisms, its body of law, its players, its opportunities, its tensions and its future.

7 modules ~79 min read Open to all, no prerequisites

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The path

Module 1 12 min

HistoryFrom libertarian utopia to the age of regulation

From the Internet pioneers to Europe as a regulatory power: fifty years swinging between self-regulation, law, states and geopolitics.

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Module 2 10 min

How it worksWho governs what, with which instruments

Digital governance works on several layers: law, social norms, the market, technical architecture, standards, certification and design.

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Module 3 12 min

The body of lawTexts, institutions and mechanisms

GDPR, DSA, DMA, AI Act, NIS2, Data Act, MiCA: Europe's digital rulebook and the institutions that bring it to life.

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Module 4 11 min

The ecosystemWho really makes the rules

Parliaments, regulators, judges, lobbyists, civil society, researchers and standards bodies write the digital rules together.

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Module 5 10 min

OpportunitiesMarkets, jobs and careers

Regulatory complexity becomes a market: compliance, RegTech, audit, certification, public affairs and AI governance.

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Module 6 13 min

The risksVacuum, overload, democracy and private power

Digital governance faces two symmetrical risks: letting things happen or regulating badly, with democratic, social and geopolitical effects.

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Module 7 11 min

OutlookWhere digital governance is heading

Tooling up the AI Act, structuring global governance, simplifying without abdicating, and governing agents, neurotechnologies and autonomous systems.

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7 modules, readable in order or separately. No unnecessary jargon, always sourced.

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