“Indigenous” Web Browsers in India: Who Benefits?
Across all three terms, the Modi government has tried to position India as a global technology hub. The state’s strategy involves pursuing self-reliance or “Atma Nirbharta.” The self-reliance strategy is being taken forward through a two-pronged approach — reducing the…
A Review of the Draft Report of the California Working Group on AI Frontier Models
In September 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom asked prominent researchers at Stanford, UC Berkeley and the Carnegie Endowment to prepare a report to help the State develop responsible guardrails for the deployment of Generative AI. Gov. Newsom’s action followed in the…
OpenAI’s manifesto: Neo-mercantilism Enters Global AI Governance
It was probably inevitable, given the current world situation. In a filing with the US Office of Science and Technology Policy for the Trump administration’s “AI Action Plan,” OpenAI played the geopolitical card, urging the U.S. government to ban its…
Digital Sovereignty and the Open Internet: Can they Coexist?
On April 4, 2025 the Internet Governance Project (IGP) in collaboration with the Quello Center will gather scholars of differing views to debate what digital sovereignty means, how it is being used as a label, and whether the various interpretations…
COLUMN: Why the U.S. Must Lead in COVID-19 Vaccine Diplomacy
This is test about COVID-19 diplomacy Abdoul Falah Yonis Ali receives the COVID-19 vaccine from U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Kevin Flenoury during a COVID-19 vaccine administration on base at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, on Aug. 13, 2021. (U.S. Navy photo…