How can policy-makers advance data transfer governance arrangements while ensuring policy interoperability for data flows?
As the world moves online, facilitating cross-border data flows is essential. It has not only served as the foundation for modern economy but also continued to unlock innovative and promising societal benefits. Yet, over the past few years, regulatory friction around cross-border data flows has only deepened and governments around the world are grappling with competing policy priorities to protect data privacy, security, intellectual property and law enforcement access.
Recognizing the opportunities and challenges associated with cross-border data flows, the Digital Trade team engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to explore the ever changing impacts of data transfer mechanisms and shape domestic, regional and global arrangements on this novel governance issue.
The movement of data across country borders is essential to the global economy. When data flows across borders, it is possible to deliver more to more people and produce more benefits for...
This White Paper on advancing data flow governance in the Asia-Pacific region explores international and regional best practices in four domestic contexts.
A major international initiative on data flows, the Osaka Track, was launched by heads of governments under Japan’s G20 leadership in 2019. This paper develops a framework for ‘data free ...
This paper provides insights, developed through expert inputs, on domestic good practices as well as trade policy tools that can help balance facilitating cross-border data flows while pr...
China should consider how its cross-border data transfer rules could threaten its status as a global leader in both manufacturing and the digital economy.
Governments and stakeholders need to cooperate more closely across borders in parallel to negotiating data openness in modern trade deals.
Ensuring the relationship between openness and trust in data flows is mutually reinforcing will help strengthen international cooperation
It raises questions about the implications of potential new rules on cross-border data flows and the governance of data-sharing platforms.
A new World Economic Forum report highlights the rise in data restrictions and how countries can balance business, privacy and security goals.
