The World Economic Forum and Bahrain Economic Development Board Launch Roadmap for Cross-Border Data Flows

In an effort to enable policymakers build best-practice legislations and harness the economic and social benefits of data-reliant technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Bahrain Economic Development Board (BEDB) have come together to unveil a new Roadmap for Cross-Border Data Flows to help drive global tech-based collaboration.

This framework is intended to help countries adopt the Fourth Industrial Revolution at a time when there are constraints on the flow of data, posing significant challenges to the global digital economy. The Roadmap includes country-level policy building blocks, designed to leverage benefits and mitigate the risks of cross-border data shar...