Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance: Volume 22 Issue 4

A critical review of digital capability frameworks: a consumer perspective

Yulia Malchenko, Megi Gogua, Ksenia Golovacheva, Maria Smirnova, Olga Alkanova

This study aims to systematize and critically analyse existing indices and frameworks on digital capabilities with the focus on consumers’ digital capabilities, identify…

Consumers’ security and trust for online shopping after GDPR: examples from Poland and Ukraine

Artur Strzelecki, Mariia Rizun

This paper aims to consider the question of changes brought to consumers’ trust and security issues by the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in…

Critical success factors for integrating artificial intelligence and robotics

Umar Bashir Mir, Swapnil Sharma, Arpan Kumar Kar, Manmohan Prasad Gupta

This paper aims to enlighten stakeholders about critical success factors (CSFs) in developing intelligent autonomous systems (IASs) by integrating artificial intelligence (AI…

The hidden standards war: economic factors affecting IPv6 deployment

Brenden Kuerbis, Milton Mueller

The data communications protocol supporting the internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) is almost 40 years old, and its 32-bit address space is too small for the internet. A…

Rethinking dominant theories used in information systems field in the digital platform era

Payam Hanafizadeh, Bayan Khosravi, Seyed Habibollah Tabatabaeian

Selecting an appropriate theory has always remained a critical task for the digital policy researchers. The literature seems to miss providing theoretical accounts of policy view…

Towers become the fashionable part of mobile networks: A regular column on the information industries

Jason Whalley, Peter Curwen