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…
Norway’s IGF: Crossroads or continuity?
No one will complain about the operation of the 2025 Internet Governance Forum. The Norwegians did everything right. Even their controversial decision to offer a rather small number of workshop rooms turned out rather well: it gave us a smaller…
Should WSIS End? A call for discussion
The future of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process will be one of the main topics of the 2025 Internet Governance Forum. Many in the IG community are heavily invested in the renewal of WSIS. They imply that…
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…
Industrial Policy vs. Digital Reality: How Data, Not Labor, Is Rebuilding the Rust Belt
This Palantir advertisement, displayed at the Detroit airport—a symbolic and literal hub of U.S. industrial manufacturing—makes a highly strategic and ideologically charged claim: “Palantir is Reindustrializing America’s Manufacturing.” The ad visually juxtaposes sleek, robotic car manufacturing lines with logos of…
New Book: Declaring Independence in Cyberspace
What is the role of the state in the governance of global cyberspace? For the past 25 years, that problem has led to conflict, negotiation and governance innovations. A new book by Milton Mueller now covers a critical part of…
Has the IGF lost the Plot?
The UN Internet Governance Forum will be held June 22-27 in Olso, Norway. The Program Committee for the conference, known as the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG), released its selection of workshops for the 2025 IGF. The number of workshops was…
Unpacking US-China “Decoupling” in AI
This is a guest blog from two University of Manchester (UK) doctoral students involved in researching the causal mechanisms linking policy interventions to decoupling outcomes, with implications for innovation ecosystems and global governance. Earlier this year, the release of DeepSeek—an…
“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…
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…