April 4, 2022
CITI Fellows: Dan Gillmor
Technology columnist, author and co-founder of the News Co/Lab at Arizona State University, and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, director of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) and a leading author on trade diplomacy and the digital economy, lead a discussion on market concentration in the tech sector.
The European Union is closing in on adopting the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The DMA intends to ensure a higher degree of competition in the European Digital Markets, by preventing large companies from abusing their market power and by allowing new players to enter the market. Meanwhile, Australia was the first country in the world to introduce laws forcing technology platforms to negotiate payments with the local media industry.