• Week 6: Terrorism, technology and privacy

    For the last couple of weeks, even before it was brought up in the supervision, I have wanted to tackle healthcare policy, but I think we have to continue our discussion on privacy given recent unfortunate events in Paris.  It … Continued

  • Week 5: Foresight and the future of cities

    The main project operating under the UK Foresight programme at the moment is on the Future of Cities, which is intended to look at ‘the opportunities and challenges facing UK cities over the next 50 years’.  They have recently published a somewhat … Continued

  • Week 4: Net neutrality

    This has been a very busy week for net neutrality on both sides of the Atlantic (and beyond).  Most notably the European Parliament voted down various proposals to retain a strong form of net neutrality, which was almost lost amidst coverage of … Continued

  • Week 3: How will countries implement their INDCs on climate change?

    This week, we are meant to be looking at institutions, so I thought that the national INDCs (shorthand for the unwieldy ‘Intended Nationally Determined Contribution’) for the upcoming COP-21 (short for the 21st conference of the parties to the UN … Continued

  • A new frontier: regulating drones/UAVs

    This week, the website, the Conversation has an article on the need for regulating UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles, also known as drones). Drones came to most people’s attention first through their use in military warfare over the past decade although … Continued

  • Welcome to Technology Policy Week 1: The VW scandal

    Well I tried to think of other ‘simpler’ introductory topics, of which there are many, but the elephant in the room is the current VW scandal.  In the end, we just had to have this as our first blog.  The … Continued