Christian Peukert

@jatucker.bsky.social

6 principles for independent research in a digital world | Brookings Lancieri, Peukert, and Tucker offer six principles to guide research on digital markets, fostering data transparency and rigorous research

Brookings article: www.brookings.edu/articles/6-p...

Website and full list of signatories:
www.ascona-principles.org

The Ascona Principles are an interdisciplinary effort, signed by more than 30 scholars.
If you are interested in the full framework, you can read our Brookings article “6 principles for independent research in a digital world” and learn more at ascona-principles.org.

The principles speak to both policymakers and the academic community. Governments should ensure meaningful data access and protect researchers from legal intimidation. Universities and journals should strengthen legal support, and recognition of data sharing as a core scholarly contribution.

The outcome was a set of six principles designed to safeguard independent inquiry in the digital age.

We worked on these principles during the Mapping and Governing the Online World conference at Monte Verità in Ascona, Switzerland. Scholars from law, economics, social sciences, and computer science came together to discuss privacy, AI regulation, platform competition, and research access.

Against this backdrop, we developed the Ascona Principles, a framework for independent research on digital markets and platforms.

Digital platforms shape markets and public debate at a scale that would have been hard to imagine a decade ago. At the same time, independent researchers face obstacles when trying to study them. As a result, much of the digital economy remains difficult to examine from the outside.

The EU Parliament's JURI Committee just released "The Economics of Copyright and AI", written by @cpeukert.bsky.social

It recommends a statutory licensing scheme for compensation of creators whose works are used in AI training.
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www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en...

CEPR & @wipo.int present the online report launch: Where Music Meets Finance: From Music Rights to Alternative Investment
03.03.2026 @ 16h CET | Zoom
W/ @tomvalletti.bsky.social, @cpeukert.bsky.social, Dennis Collopy, Martin Kretschmer, Audu Maikori, & Carsten Fink
cepr.org/events/where...
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Is GDPR undermining innovation in Europe? The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was supposed to be Europe's big move to protect consumer privacy and reassert its technological relevance.

www.siliconcontinent.com/p/is-gdpr-un...