WEBCAST APR 4 – Digital Sovereignty and the Open Internet: Can they Coexist?
On April 4, 2025 at 10:00 EDT (14:00 UTC) the Internet Governance Project (IGP) in collaboration with the Quello Center host a webinar ‘Digital Sovereignty and the Open Internet: Can they Coexist?‘. Scholars of differing views to debate what digital sovereignty means, how it is being used as a label, and whether the various interpretations of the term are compatible with the foundational values of the open Internet.
Recently, new books and analyses have been published, including the book edited by Min Jiang and Luca Belli, Digital sovereignty in the BRICS countries (Cambridge, 2025), the volume by Johannes Thumfart, The liberal internet in the postliberal era (Springer, 2024), and a special issue of Policy & Internet on the topic, edited by Julia Pohle, Mauro Santantiello, and Riccardo Nanni.
SPEAKERS
Anupam Chander – legal expert on global regulation of new technologies
Julia Pohle – Co-director, Research Group om Politics of Digitalisation, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Marília Maciel – Director, Digital Trade and Economic Security, DiploFoundation.
Milton Mueller – Director, Internet Governance Project (IGP), Georgia Tech.
Min Jiang – Professor of Communication Studies, UNC Charlotte
Moderator: Johannes Bauer – Chair of Media and Information Policy, Quello
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