SMEs, competition experts and regulators, and now an increasing number of EU Member States are calling for the forthcoming EU Digital Markets Act to include up-front interoperability requirements for the largest digital platforms. Interoperability can ensure real choice, fairness and contestability for businesses and consumers in platform markets.
OpenForum Academy invites you to a discussion between leading legal and technical experts, who will outline the key components of interoperability in the context of competition regulation, as well as the relationship between interoperability and data protection.
Dr. Ian Brown
Independent Consultant
Dr Ian Brown is an Internet regulation expert who consults for governmental organisations and other clients, including a recent report on AI accountability for the UK government and advising Open Society Foundations on digital market contestability. Ian is Visiting Professor at FGV Law School in Rio de Janeiro, and was previously Principal Scientific Officer, at the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Professor of Information Security and Privacy at the Oxford Internet Institute until 2016. He has worked as a consultant for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on their study of global cybercrime. For the OECD, he co-authored with Peter Sommer the 2010 report “Reducing Systemic Cybersecurity Risk”. His most recent books are Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age (with Christopher T. Marsden) (2013, MIT Press) and Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet (editor, 2013, Edward Elgar).
