Now is a good time to take stock of Internet Governance discussions: it is only a few weeks since ITU’s now-famed World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) concluded in Dubai, and the U.S. House of Representatives is discussing an “Internet Governance Bill” which proposes to make it the “policy of the United States to promote a global Internet free from government...

Exactly 10 years ago, the pan-European Game Information (or PEGI) system was founded, harmonising the age classification of video games in more than 30 countries. Over the last decade, the system has provided consumers with age ratings for more than 20.000 games for the well-known game consoles, the pc platform and handheld gaming devices. The institutions of the European Union fully support the project,...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about Microsoft’s new consumer privacy campaign and a quiz we developed – Your Privacy Type (YPT) – for consumers to gauge where they fall on the privacy continuum. Thus far, the campaign and the YPT quiz have generated discussion and positive reactions in the U.S., the United Kingdom and Germany. We’re also seeing strong engagement with consumers...

We are organizing the second edition of Microsoft’s EU Cybersecurity Forum, which will take place on 6 June 2013 in Brussels. This full day Forum will once again feature a number of high profile speakers and cybersecurity experts from EU institutions and Member States, OECD, the US and industry. The Forum will focus on network and information security, which has...

Online intermediaries contribute more than €430 billion to European economy in 2012; Digital Single Market key to continued growth. The  European Digital Media Association (EDiMA) presented European Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier with a new Copenhagen Economics study which shows that Europe’s online economy is growing at more than 10% per annum, substantially faster than...