On September 22nd, 2021, Lorrayne Porciuncula, Executive Director, Datasphere Initiative, participated in a G7 Digital & Technology Roundtable organised by the Government of the United Kingdom Department of Digital, Culture Media, and Sport in partnership with techUK.
The event took place as part of Leeds Digital Festival 2021 and discussed the impact of data localization on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises as well as alternative policy responses to data localization.
Ms. Porciuncula shared key insights from the Report “We Need to Talk About Data: Framing the Debate Around the Free Flow of Data and Data Sovereignty” and the vision of the Datasphere Initiative currently being incubated by the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network.
