Declaring Independence in Cyberspace: Book Discussion
What? A moderated webinar on Dr. Milton Mueller’s new book When? Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 10-11 AM ET Where? On Zoom https://tinyurl.com/yh9m8wh8 On three separate occasions this year, I heard the phrase “Who reads books anymore?” The deluge of LLM…
India’s Satellite Communications Policy: Balancing Competition, Connectivity and Control
The integration of digital public infrastructure, like digital identity and wallets for accessing public and private services, has made Internet access a necessity in India. In 2024, India ranked second globally in Internet usage. Yet, only 49.15 percent of its population…
Join us to discuss The Dollar, Bitcoin, Stablecoins, and the interconnection of competing monetary networks
How does the digitization of money intersect with financial governance? This is an issue IGP has been working on since 2021. On August 7, two webinars hosted by the Institute for Humane Studies will bring our work directly into the…
Cloudflare Declares “Content Independence”: A New Phase of Data Enclosure in AI Markets
On July 1, 2025, dubbed “Content Independence Day”, Cloudflare announced a bold initiative to block unauthorized AI crawlers from accessing websites by default and to create a marketplace where content owners and AI model providers can transact. This move marks…
IGP at IAEA Technical Meeting 2025
From June 23 to June 27, 2025, a Technical Meeting on Public Communication in Emergencies: Tackling Misinformation and Retaining Public Trust in Disruptive Information Environments was held at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna. The event aimed to…
From Substitution to Augmentation: Rethinking AI in Warfare
Roughly two thousand years ago, the full combat load of a Roman legionary weighed approximately 100 pounds (45 kg). Remarkably, modern militaries exhibit a similar pattern. U.S. Army soldiers still carry around 45 kg in full combat gear, while South…
A GENIUS Bill?
The United States has entered a new chapter in financial regulation with the introduction of the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins aka GENIUS Act of 2025. With this, Congress isn’t just attempting to contain crypto, it’s designing…
Is Musk a Hypocrite? Content Removal Cases in Turkiye and India
Since March 19th, 2025, thousands of people in Türkiye have been protesting the government’s arrest of the Mayor of Istanbul. The Mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, was a presidential candidate backed by the main opposition party (CHP). He might have won an…
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…
DeepSeek Says “Xi Jinping is a Dictator”
In last week’s blog post, The Frontier Illusion: Rethinking DeepSeek’s AI Threat, I discussed Cisco’s safety test on DeepSeek R1, which revealed the model’s inability to filter out socially unacceptable content, including cybercrime, harassment (bullying), chemical and biological weapons, and…