Out of the British University’s interest in community issues as well as its keenness on offering recommendations for efficient solutions to problems facing the society at the policies and laws’ level to fulfil its role as an educational and research institute, and in light of the academic research programmes adopted by the Faculty of Law through its Centre for Law and Emerging Technologies (CLET), the Faculty has organised its first workshop titled: “The Legal Challenges of a Participatory Economy: Participatory Transportation as a Model.”

This workshop was organised considering the issuance of conflicting judicial rulings regarding the means of participatory transportation and the draft law that was discussed in the Parliament: Law regulating the transport of passengers on ground using information technology. The workshop took place on Wednesday, the 2nd of May 2018 on the university campus in Botros Ghaly hall.

Participatory economy is considered one of the new phenomena in which areas of the economy intersect and mingle with technology. This needs to be studied in its various aspects to achieve economic, social, and legal balances through the methods that ensure legal protection, social balance, economic competition rights as well as quality and transparency.