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…
Who is the colonizer and who is colonized?
Review City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule Ho-Fung Hung. Cambridge University Press, 2022. It takes time to digest the meaning of an event of such monumental geopolitical importance as Hong Kong’s revolt against Chinese rule from 2003…
Why a TikTok Divestiture Never Happened
As this gets published we are about 18 hours away from TikTok going dark. From the standpoint of global Internet and data governance, the impending ban raises fascinating questions. If we look closely at how the US sought to ban…
Authoritarianism Goes Digital: The EUI Conference
A conference devoted to challenging “digital authoritarianism” is something that IGP can certainly get behind. But what is digital authoritarianism, and was it really being challenged in Italy on October 28 and 29? At the meeting “Decrypting Digital Authoritarianism: How…
AI governance workshop summary
The image projected by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger summed up the AI governance dialogue perfectly. It was a gigantic motorcycle driver barreling around a curve. The image was used to represent someone “who doesn’t know where he is going, but wants to…
Caught in the Crossfire: The Impact of Sanctions on Iranian Internet Users
In the digital landscape of Iran, citizens find themselves trapped between a hammer and an anvil—on one side, external sanctions crush their access to the global digital economy, while on the other, their own government’s policies lock them into a…
Encryption Under Siege in India: National Security & the Erosion of Digital Privacy
Today (October 21, 2024) is Global Encryption Day. IGP participates in this worldwide event as Saumya Jain and Jyoti Panday examine India’s evolving assaults on private communications. End-to-end (E2E) encryption ensures that only the sender’s and recipient’s devices have access…
IGP Annual Workshop: Does AI Need Governance? October 17-18, 2024
Does AI Need Governance? Examining the Political Economy of Machine Learning The Internet Governance Project (IGP) announces its 9th annual workshop, focused on the critical topic of AI governance and its implications for information and communications technology (ICT) policy. This…
OTT Regulation in India: Turf Wars & Definitional Ambiguities
As smartphone adoption surges and wireless broadband becomes increasingly accessible, we’re witnessing a major shift in the digital landscape. Internet-based platforms are rapidly overtaking traditional services, from Facebook and WhatsApp challenging conventional SMS and voice calls to streaming giants like…
The Traditional Media’s Role in Sculpting Truth: the Originator Profile and Unfair Election Reports
As the global community grapples with various regulatory frameworks and policy recommendations put forward by states, social media companies, and academia, the pivotal role of traditional media and journalists often slips under the radar. The article discusses information integrity efforts…