Digital media service

May 21, 2025 - A digital media service (DMS) is an online service provider that sells access to digital library of content such as films, software, games, images, literature, etc. While no transfer of property is made, a nearly perfect duplicate of the data (song movie, etc.) is made on a customer's computer.

1 week ago - The USDS was launched on August 11, 2014, by then-president Barack Obama, inside the Office of Management and Budget within the Executive Office of the President. It provides consultation services to federal agencies on information technology. The agency's 2014 mandate was to improve and simplify digital service, and to improve federal websites.

Digital services are services that can be delivered through an information infrastructure, such as the internet. "They include the delivery of digital information (i.e. data or content) and transactional services (e.g. online forms, benefits ...

However, common Digital Services meanings refer to the electronic delivery of information including data and content across multiple platforms and devices like web or mobile that is entirely automated, or involves very little human intervention. Where the service delivery is controlled by the ...

1 week ago - The Digital Services Act (DSA) is an EU regulation that entered into force in 2022, establishing a comprehensive legal framework for digital services accountability, content moderation, and platform transparency across the European Union.

The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) aims to hold Big Tech accountable for their impact on society. This year, nineteen major platforms underwent their first independent audits, but the results are not great...and that's an understatement. Not a single company, except Wikipedia, achieved full compliance.

November 21, 2025 - In an interview, Francis Maude, minister with responsibility for GDS spoke about "powerful oligopolies" and the reliance on a single supplier as a cause of high-profile failures in public sector IT, such as NHS Connecting for Health. GDS is intended to "drive service delivery to digital across government and provide support, advice and technical expertise for departments as they develop new digital delivery models".

In this sense, the interview highlights Wikipedia’s specific characteristics, analyses the compliance burdens for the Wikimedia Foundation and offers some guidance for the future in order to preserve the Wikimedia model. This week marks one year since the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) formally applied to Wikipedia.

April 16, 2024 - As required by the European Union’s Digital Services Act (“DSA”), the Wikimedia Foundation is publishing data on requests received between 1 July and 31 December 2023. On 25 August 2023, the DSA’s main obligations began to apply to ...

Our work with the Wikimedia Foundation further reinforced this learning for our team, helping us deepen our understanding of the Digital Services Act as it applies to a very large online platform like Wikipedia with none of the typical digital revenue generators like ads, a marketplace, and ratings.”

August 1, 2025 - However, in the last years, one can observe appearing of different e-services and related initiatives in developing countries such as Project Nemmadi, MCA21 Mission Mode Project or Digital India even more, in India; Electronic Government Directorate in Pakistan; The E-government citizen program in Iraq; E-government Development Center in Azerbaijan etc.

Broadly speaking, a Digital Service is any service that is delivered electronically over the Internet and that customers can access in a self-service mode through a web or mobile interface.

July 17, 2025 - Digital Services means any service or resource available Including such services or resources as virtual servers or any electronic storage, including such things as a Google™ or Google Chrome™ account; OneDrive™, Adobe Creative Cloud™; ...

The Digital Services Act is probably the most consequential dossier of the current EU legislative term. It will most likely become a formative set of rules on content moderation for the internet. It also means that it will shape the way Wikipedia and its sister projects operate.

Government Digital Service (GDS) is a unit formed in April 2011 within the Cabinet Office tasked with updating the government's internet services. The Open Standards Board, formed in 2013, considers recommendations to government regarding the use of Open Standards[1] http://digital.cabinet...

Services delivered electronically, including data processing, web hosting, and cloud-based solutions. These services face complex tax treatment that varies by jurisdiction and often crosses traditional boundaries, requiring careful compliance monitoring.

In the spirit of digital transformation—which is a business journey—a digital service is a business construct composed of apps, APIs, app delivery, security, data, and the service-level objectives that guide operations.

We'll explore what DSPs are, their breadth of digital services, and how they've become the backbone of our digital world—from streamlining business operations to revolutionizing how we consume music and media.

Digital products and services are consumed entirely in a digital format, unlike physical products, they do not have a tangible presence and can include a range of items from ebooks and software to online courses and digital art.

The United States Digital Service (USDS) is a technology unit[2][3] housed within the Executive Office of the President of the United States and established by Congressional appropriations.[4] In 2025, it was "publicly renamed" and reorganized ...