Digital Regulatory Networks and Evolving Internet Governance Spaces

Digital Policy Hub Working Paper

December 12, 2024

Australia, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom have all devised digital regulators forums. These forums increase regulators’ capacity for evolving digital regulations by bringing competition, privacy and communications regulators together to share insights, data and policy approaches toward the regulation of online platforms. In Canada, emerging digital policies — namely, Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act — will require the proposed Digital Safety Commission to develop a digital regulatory collaboration with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. In addition to domestic regulatory forums, internationally there are regulatory collaborations in both online harms-type digital policy as well as broadband development. The emergence of digital regulators forums can allow for comprehensive digital policy; however, with these forums in early stages, there are questions as to how they will achieve this comprehension.

About the Author

Dana Cramer is pursuing her Ph.D. at Toronto Metropolitan University and York University’s Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture. As a Digital Policy Hub doctoral fellow, she is researching policy and governance approaches for emerging technologies.