Contents this quarter :

The resilience of infrastructures is a key issue, as demonstrated by the bill on the resilience of critical infrastructures and the strengthening of cyber security tabled in mid-October. Infrastructures are exposed to increasing risks - natural, technological and man-made. Over and above the challenge of assessing investment needs to ensure resilience, the issue at stake is the financing of investments to ensure continuity of service and/or avoid the costs - both financial and human - associated with repairs following increasing climatic hazards.

This workshop will take stock of experience and build on the recent advances in the understanding of agile and anticipatory governance and frameworks for its implementation. It will explore how governments and industry can design and implement responsible innovation and develop relevant practices to deal with emerging technologies, whether linked to digital technologies, life sciences, or nanotechnologies.

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Achieving the green transition will require the profound transformation of the water, energy, e-communications, and transportation sectors, which are typically highly resource intensive and have a significant environmental impact. Governments will need to find the appropriate tools and institutional frameworks to enable this transition.

How can we encourage the development of responsible and sovereign AI?

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Climate change and the energy transition require considerable investment to reduce the impact of human activity on the environment. The new technologies to be implemented and the new behaviours to be developed most often require the payment of public subsidies on the grounds that the activities they support would not naturally find funding commensurate with their general interest.

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Independent regulatory agencies have been flourishing in Europe from the 1990’s onwards, both at national and supra-national level. As time went by, these agencies have increasingly been working in networks, and even in networks of networks. One of the main drivers is the progress of the European integration, which necessitates a degree of harmonization and cooperation across national jurisdictions, not the least on cross-border issues and enforcement actions.

The enactment of the Digital Act and the Digital Governance Acts were major achievements of the outcoming European Commission and Parliament. The new Commission, the regulatory authorities and industry now face the challenge of the development of data ecosystems.

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"The Chair's raison d'être is to contribute to the debate on how public policy objectives can be achieved effectively while guaranteeing the competitiveness of economic players. These are the reasons why we are carrying out in-depth work on the processes by which public policy is drawn up and implemented, and on the way in which stakeholders in industries and markets organise themselves collectively to create frameworks for exchange and cooperation." - Eric Brousseau