Editorial
| Pages | 1-1 |
| Published date | 09 January 2017 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/DPRG-11-2016-0050 |
| Date | 09 January 2017 |
| Author | Colin Blackman |
| Subject Matter | Information & knowledge management,Information management & governance,Information policy |
Editorial
Colin Blackman
Colin Blackman is
Director at Camford
Associates Ltd, and
Associate Research
Fellow at CEPS.
Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance
With this first issue of 2017, we are pleased to announce that the journal has changed its
name to Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance. The decision to change the title of an
established journal is not to be taken lightly and follows extensive consultation with the
editorial board over the past year. There are several reasons for doing so, and they are
perhaps worth explaining.
When info was launched in 1999 by Camford Publishing, the intention was to publish a
journal aimed at a business, policy-making and academic community. Over the years, the
journal’s focus has shifted to serving mainly an academic audience, although it still has
relevance to business and policy-making audiences. As a mainly academic journal, it was
felt that info as a title was not best suited to this aim.
A second reason concerns issues over the full title – info: The journal of policy, regulation
and strategy for telecommunications, information and media. In some cases, the journal has
been referred to just by its short title, sometimes by its full title and occasionally by the
subtitle without info. This confusion has had a couple of unfortunate consequences. First,
it has not helped the journal in terms of its citation score, arising from different permutations
of the title being used. A second consequence is it has hindered efforts to promote
recognition of the journal. A further, and related, issue concerns the difficulty the title poses
for search. Type “info” into a search engine and the journal is not easily visible, similar to
what happens in Google Scholar.
The new title, Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, better reflects the journal’s
editorial scope, which is concerned with the impacts of information and communications
technologies on the economy and society. In particular, it covers the implications of two
important technological transformations, namely, the rise of mobile communications and
the internet, resulting in the emergence of a digital economy and society. The journal seeks
to analyse these technological changes from a multidisciplinary perspective, drawing on
concepts and models from economics, the political, social and behavioural sciences,
decision analysis, engineering and law.
What remains the same is a commitment to produce a broad-ranging and readable journal
on the most important policy impacts of digital technologies.
Thus, the journal welcomes submissions on topics concerning, for instance, governance in
the digital age; competition in the digital economy; self and coregulatory models; aspects
of wired and wireless networks; spectrum requirements for 5G; consumer demand and
access to infrastructure, information and services; regulation of online platforms and digital
services; cybersecurity; the internet of things; data protection and privacy; digitisation of
media and content; consumer-driven innovation; etc.
DOI 10.1108/DPRG-11-2016-0050 VOL. 19 NO. 1 2017, p. 1, © Emerald Publishing Limited, ISSN 2398-5038 DIGITAL POLICY, REGULATION AND GOVERNANCE PAGE 1
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