The Constitutional Court, the National Data Protection Authority and Freedom of Information and theNational Civil Service University Information Society Research Institute announce an online conference titled “The era of internet platforms – social impact and legislative challenges” for the speakers.
Today, online platforms are the center of thoughts on social impacts and legislative challenges of the internet. Actually, platforms providers have redesigned in a significant way the World Wide Web in the last ten years and they became the central actors in the flow of digital information. When we began to live a growing part of our individual and social life in the online world, the structures that organize and coordinate the processes that take place on the Internet have become increasingly important to us.
Today, platforms seem to be essential in many sectors of our life: they became an essential forum for the social advertising, flow of information, the provision and the usage of services, the daily shopping, as the working environment or our official affairs.
In the business life, platforms of all the sectors appear like competitors, by giving to market participants a role which would not be competitive without them. This is supported by a market redistribution.
Economic actors ruling in each sector reply to new challenges with business strategies, but they seem to remember that they can remain competitive in a market context if they reorganise in an innovative way.
Platforms carry out a role which is more and more important not only in the business life but also in other society sectors, thereby fundamentally influencing some of our fundamental rights, such as freedom of expression, the right to the protection of personal data or access to information of public interest .
The main objective of the online conference is to collect national experience, research results and scientific positions on the social impact of the operation of online platforms, its impact on the application of fundamental rights and on emerging regulatory issues.
The conference organisers will give lectures on law and political science, sociology and political science.