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El Altice Arena de Lisboa justo antes del comienzo de la Web Summit el pasado lunes. Foto: Stephen McCarthy/Web Summit via Sportsfile (CC BY 2.0)
Global Spectator Experts Comments

A Contract to remedy the web

Treinta años después, Tim Berners-Lee propuso en la Web Summit en Lisboa un "contrato para la Web" para garantizar que la Red siga siendo libre y abierta.

By Andrés Ortega
13 Nov 2018 //
5 mins Reading time
Silicon Valley from above. Photo: Patrick Nouhailler (CC BY-SA 2.0). Blog Elcano
Global Spectator Experts Comments

An outbreak of ethics in Silicon Valley

To what can we ascribe this outbreak of ethics in Silicon Valley and elsewhere? The political awakening spread and became viral.

By Andrés Ortega
31 Jul 2018 //
6 mins Reading time
Digital sovereignty. Photo: Eric Fischer (CC BY 2.0). Elcano Blog
Global Spectator Experts Comments

Digital sovereignty

By Andrés Ortega
29 May 2018 //
5 mins Reading time
Donald J. Trump and Xi Jinping at the G20 Summit in Germany (2017). Photo: The White House (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead) (Public domain). Elcano Blog
Technology and economics Experts Comments

In the antechamber of a multi-front trade war

En el trasfondo de la antesala de la guerra comercial entre EEUU y la UE hay dos elementos de mucho mayor calado: la OMC y China.

By Federico Steinberg
16 May 2018 //
5 mins Reading time
Shanghai. Photo: Ayala (public domain)
Technology and economics Analyses

The changing Chinese economic model: an opportunity for Spanish companies

This analysis focuses on China’s changing economic growth model and the important new business opportunities this change is generating for Spanish companies.

By Adrián Blanco Estévez
08 May 2018 //
18 mins Reading time
Psychographic advertising: the global battle to sway minds. Photo: Adit Jani (Public domain). Elcano Blog
Democracy and citizenship Experts Comments

Psychographic advertising: the global battle to sway minds

The Cambridge Analytica case shows that almost anyone –private companies, governments, non-state organisations– with access to users’ data and a certain degree of technical sophistication can carry out the «psychographic advertising».

By Andrés Ortega
27 Mar 2018 //
6 mins Reading time
San Francisco Bay Bridge. Photo: ah zut (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Technology and economics Analyses

The world economy in 2018

The world economy seems to be rebounding definitively from the Great Recession, but many and varied risks still threaten consolidation of the recovery in 2018.

By Federico Steinberg
08 Mar 2018 //
16 mins Reading time
A global Cold War over Artificial Intelligence. A wafer full of quantum processors. Photo: Steve Jurvetson (CC BY 2.0). Elcano Blog
Global Spectator Experts Comments

A global Cold War over Artificial Intelligence

There is a race, essentially between China, the US and Europe, to acquire new technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI). It will determine economic (and military) dominion in the not too-distant future.

By Andrés Ortega
20 Feb 2018 //
5 mins Reading time
Press conference by Margrethe Vestager on EU antitrust legislation (27/7/2017). Photo: Georges Boulougouris - EC Audiovisual Service / ©European Union, 2017. Elcano Blog
Future of Europe Experts Comments

The EU’s global normative influence

The EU is proving to have a capacity for global influence on normative issues. Its internal regulations are in some cases being adopted beyond its borders.

By Andrés Ortega
09 Jan 2018 //
4 mins Reading time

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