Regulation governance in the digital era: A new research agenda

Abstract The digital era presents governments with a triple regulatory challenge: monitoring new activities arising out of the digital revolution; adopting digital technologies to proactively detect and address risky behaviours; and responding to calls for a more agile regulation that abandons ineffective practices and standards and adopts new ones as circumstances change. Focusing on how the state governed regulation, either alone, through agencies or through networks or partnerships, this article sets out a research agenda that may lead to a greater understanding of how government can respond to and leverage the digital era in the area of regulation.