Dear Have illicit streaming devices have become the latest mainstream content piracy threat? From the factories of Shenzhen to Singapore’s malls, London’s pubs, and e-commerce platforms worldwide, illicit streaming devices, or ISDs, seem available just about anywhere. While ISDs represent a new assault on creative industries in the global fight against content piracy, hope, in the form of effective policy and enforcement solution does exist. In his recent article for InterMedia, CASBAA’s John Medeiros says that policymakers need to act now. Read the article. This will be just one of many issues we will be exploring when we come to Singapore in February 2018 for the first of the IIC’s three-day Telecoms Media and Regulatory Forums in Asia. We have a rich calendar of events planned for 2018 and we hope to meet you there. In the meantime, we wish you a peaceful holiday season and a prosperous and happy new year.
Next year: Singapore 2018 Discussions will focus on enabling the digital economy and building the skillsets and capacity for this century. We will be inviting keynote speakers to give context to the regulatory environment by comparing regulatory, policy and investment trends in the East and the West. TMRF
Final event of 2017 With a strong focus on cyber security, speakers and delegates debated the topic of digital transformation and enabling an open, safe and secure space for future global communication? We had keynotes from the US FCC, FTA, The Department of State and industry as well as contributors and keynotes from the global policy and regulatory community. See more
Communications Policy and Regulation Week 2018 Next year our Annual Conference and International Regulators’ Forum will be in Mexico City. We will be heading there in January to meet with existing and future IIC Partner members to discuss keynote topics and panel discussions. Register for programme updates
Q&A with Robert L. Strayer
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Cyber and International Communications and Information Policy, US Department of State
DAS Strayer was one of the keynote presenters at the recent TMF in Washington DC. This month Policy World asked him about the complex policy landscape surrounding privacy and cybersecurity in the growing cloud based digital economy. See DAS Strayer’s answers
The IIC’s Year Book for Members The IIC’s year book for members will be available soon. We will look ahead to trends coming over the horizon in 2018, provide thoughts from our chapters around the world and give members a comprehensive digest of the thought provoking outputs from the meetings we’ve convened between regulators and industry during the year.
IIC UK Chapter As the Commission’s proposals on copyright reform, geo-blocking and online retransmission regulation progress through Parliament, the ever-changing balance between distributors and content producers was discussed at this UK Chapter event. Read more
IIC Australia Chapter The Australian Chapter kicked off its seminar and events series with a session on Connectivity and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, in partnership with UTS’ Centre for Media Transition. Speakers included IIC president and former ACMA chair Chris Chapman and Adrian Turner, CEO of CSIRO's Data61 Read More
IIC Canada Chapter Keynotes from Grace Koh, Special Assistant to President Trump for Technology, Telecom and Cybersecurity, new CRTC Chair Ian Scott, U.S. FCC Commissioner, Brendan Carr, and trade experts, Sarah Goldfeder and Colin Robertson, who discussed implications of the Trump-inspired renegotiation of NAFTA for communications and other sectors. Read more
China is willing to deepen global cooperation in the digital economy to gain new momentum and expand global economic growth, says the head of the country’s internet regulatory body.
“We will actively implement the G20 Digital Economy Development and Cooperation Initiative” Read more
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is to start an inquiry into digital platform providers such as Facebook and Google looking at the effect that digital search engines, social media platforms and other digital content aggregation platforms are having on competition. Read more
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