Big Tech Under Control Regulating the Tech Giants
What is the role of regulation in protecting us from the dangers of technology while promoting innovation?
Covid-19 accelerated the transition to a new age of digital progress, creating opportunities for the widespread and rapid adoption of both new and established platforms. Many of these businesses have been instrumental in supporting access to goods and services but have also had a negative effect, particularly on our mental health. How do we ensure big tech accepts social responsibilities, and can be held accountable for what happens on their platforms, without limiting innovation?
Rory Cellan-Jones, former technology correspondent for the BBC, is joined by journalist, cybersecurity and metaverse expert Kate Bevan, scientist and entrepreneur Harry Destecroix, journalist Kimberley Long and economist Tommaso Valletti.
Rory Cellan-Jones was the BBC’s technology correspondent for 15 years, reporting on the biggest developments and news stories in the field. He has interviewed countless visionaries, from Jeff Bezos to Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk to Tim Berners-Lee. He hosts the BBC weekly podcast Tech Tent and is the author of Always On: Hope and Fear in the Social Smartphone Era. Follow him on Twitter @ruskin147
Kate Bevan is a senior technology journalist who has worked for a range of publications including the FT, the Guardian and Which?, and who now leads on cybersecurity and the metaverse at the Infosys Knowledge Institute. She regularly appears on BBC TV and radio discussing technology stories, as well as on other broadcasters’ programmes from Sky News and ITV News to Al Jazeera English. Kate lives in London and probably has too many gadgets in her home. Follow her on Twitter @katebevan
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Harry Destecroix is the founder of the Science Creates ecosystem and Managing Partner of Science Creates Ventures. He is a scientist, entrepreneur and investor and the co-founder of Ziylo, the successful University of Bristol spin-out company. He is passionate about building great companies and providing the optimum ecosystem to facilitate their growth and development.
Kimberley Long is Asia editor of The Banker magazine. Her role involves covering banking, capital markets and transaction services from central Asia to the Pacific Islands. She heads up the 50:50 Project at The Banker, to push for gender parity across the publication, and is a steering committee member for the FT Embrace Diversity and Inclusion group. She joined The Banker from Euromoney, where she spent four years as transaction services editor. Previously, she was acting editor of Trade Finance magazine, part of the Euromoney group.
Tommaso Valletti is Professor of Economics at Imperial College London, where he heads the Department of Economics and Public Policy. He is a non-executive director to the board of the Financial Conduct Authority. He is the director of the CEPR Research and Policy Network on Competition Policy. He was Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission (Directorate General for Competition) between 2016 and 2019, when he led the economic analysis on many large mergers (e.g. Deutsche Börse/London Stock Exchange, Dow/DuPont, Bayer/Monsanto, Microsoft/LinkedIn, Siemens/Alstom), state aid, and antitrust cases (e.g. Google Shopping, Google Android, Google AdSense, Qualcomm exclusivity, Qualcomm predation, Mastercard and VISA). He has published in the fields of industrial economics, regulation, and competition economics.
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