[Air-L] WEBCAST APR 4 – Digital Sovereignty and the Open Internet: Can they Coexist?

Fri Apr 4 07:33:59 PDT 2025

The webinar today provides a glimpse into an ongoing vigorous debate in the
GigaNet <https://www.giga-net.org/> community.

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On *April 4, 2025* at *10:00 EDT* (14:00 UTC) the *Internet Governance
Project (IGP)
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in
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host
a webinar '*Digital Sovereignty and the Open Internet: Can they Coexist?
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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
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(Cambridge,
2025), the volume by Johannes Thumfart, *The liberal internet in the
postliberal era
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(Springer,
2024), and *a special issue of Policy & Internet
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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 on 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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