Member Spotlight: Oh BiBi
With 20 years of experience, Stanislas Dewavrin, founder of Oh Bibi, is a seasoned expert in the game development industry. Before launching their start-up Oh BiBi in 2012, he headed the Creation team at Gameloft for eleven years, working on hugely successful games like the Asphalt Series and Minion Rush. During this time, Stanislas had the opportunity to create some of the first mobile game successes, seeing the user base grow from a few thousand to more than a billion [...]
Innovators Network Foundation Announces 2020-21 Privacy Fellows
Even as we await clarity on the implications of elections across the country, one thing is certain: privacy is not dead. To the contrary, a host of outstanding privacy issues are sure to remain top of mind for policymakers at the federal, state, local, and international levels, including: lawful access to encrypted devices and communications, children’s privacy rulemaking at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), implications of California's new privacy law, facial recognition, algorithmic decision-making, further clarification of the European Union's [...]
High-Level Reflections on Standard-Essential Patents: In Pursuit of a Balanced System
The licensing of standard-essential patents (SEPs) on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms is a longstanding issue. Recently, SEP licensing has attracted increasing attention as technological developments accelerate the proliferation of the internet of things (IoT). For small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that develop devices for IoT use cases like agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare, and consumer electronics, the ability to either license on FRAND terms or to get access to fully licensed modules and chipsets is vital for their competitiveness and [...]
ACT | The App Association’s 2020 Gift Guide
Gift giving may look at a little different this year, but these amazing apps are social distancing APProved and sure to bring a bring a smile to everyone on your list! Whether you’re buying for the plugged-in activist, major foodie, or person who just wants to chill this winter, we’ve got you covered! Speak to Santa – Pro Few things in life are more exciting than getting to meet THE Santa Claus at your [...]
China Crisis: The Wishful Thinking of Protectionist Internet Policy
We are experiencing an unmistakable acceleration in the long creeping global trend toward internet balkanization. Nations around the world are increasingly skeptical of friends and foes alike, from the European Union rethinking international data transfers to data localization mandates in India. Of course, no one tracing President Trump’s rhetoric was surprised to see the United States join the fray with a retaliatory response – the President campaigned on “America first” and never even so much as hinted that he would [...]
Something Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue for Tech as Congress Puts a Bow on 2020
The 2020 elections were historic in a number of ways, including drawing in the highest proportion of voting-eligible Americans (65 percent!) to participate in the last 100 years. With the Biden-Harris ticket apparently winning the presidency, the rest of the election was mixed for Democrats and Republicans. In the Senate, with only 12 Democratic seats up for reelection and 23 Republican, the GOP stood to lose the most this year, including their narrow three-seat majority. With the results thus far, [...]