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colleagues,</span></font></p><p>apologies for cross-posting! Just a quick reminder of today's event :)</p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Arial">GigaNet, in partnership with the Communication Law
& Policy Division of the International Communication
Association (ICA), invites you to an online book discussion:</font></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align: center;"><font face="Arial" size="4"><b>Navigating Internet Governance and the
Return of Geopolitics</b></font></p>
<font face="Arial"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">\u200b<img src="cid:part1.32t2OvqF.GwoaO8U2@fu-berlin.de" class="" width="1639" height="923"></span></font>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Arial">As geopolitical competition and questions of power
increasingly shape the digital landscape, Internet governance
stands at a critical juncture. Benjamin Farrand and Igor Calzada
will present their recent books and discuss what they reveal
about the changing politics of Internet governance and the
future of digital governance more broadly. The conversation will
be moderated by Min Jiang.<br>
</font></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Arial"><b>Featured Books</b></font></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Arial"><b>Geopolitical Union: Europe\u2019s Attempt to Take
Back Control of Technology Regulation</b><br>
Benjamin Farrand | Cambridge University Press, 2026<br>
</font></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Arial"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Geopolitical
Union focuses on the changes to law and policy-making as a
result of geopolitical instability and increased conflict in
the international system. Central to many of these conflicts
is technology \u2013 who produces it, where it is produced, and who
controls it. The European Commission's pursuit of
digital/technological sovereignty is Europe's attempt to
regain control of technology regulation. Focusing on topics
such as technological standards, ensuring access to
microchips, and securing rules for industrial data and AI,
this book explores the EU's approach; increased regulatory
oversight and promotion of industrial policy at home, while
exporting its rules abroad.</span></font></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Arial"><b>Datafied Democracies & AI Economics
Unplugged: Technopolitics in Smart Cities and Datafied Network
States</b><br>
Igor Calzada | Springer, 2025</font></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Arial"><br>
<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Datafied
Democracies & AI Economics Unplugged</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>examines how AI,
datafication, platform power and Web3 decentralised
technologies are reshaping democracy, governance and economic
life. Moving across smart cities and datafied network states,
it asks whether these transformations can enable democratic
renewal and anticipatory governance or deepen inequality,
technocratic control and geopolitical fragmentation. The book
connects AI economics with data sovereignty, data
cooperatives, Web3 and digital citizenship, offering a civic
and institutional framework for inclusive, accountable digital
futures. For the GigaNet community, it broadens global
Internet governance debates beyond infrastructure towards the
political economy, territorial consequences and democratic
oversight of AI-driven digital systems.</span><br>
</font></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Arial"><b>Speakers</b></font></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Arial"><b>Benjamin Farrand</b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>is Professor of
Law and Emerging Technologies at Newcastle University, <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">UK.
His research focuses on the intersections between geopolitics
and technology governance, and he published<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Geopolitical
Union: Europe's Attempt to Take Back Control of Technology
Regulation<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></i><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">with
Cambridge University Press. He has published over 30
peer-reviewed articles in journals such as the</span><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> International
Affairs</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">and
the</span><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Journal
of European Public Policy.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></i><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">He is
Regulation and Governance lead at the Newcastle University
Centre of Research Excellence in Cybersecurity and Resilience,
and a member of the CRANE cybersecurity research network.</span><br>
</font></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Arial"><b>Igor Calzada</b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>is Professor of AI
Economics, Public Governance and Urban Economy at the University
of the Basque Country (EHU) and Principal Investigator at
Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science. <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">His
research examines how AI-driven datafication and platform
power are restructuring Internet governance, digital
sovereignty, democratic representation and citizenship across
cities, regions and emerging network states, with particular
attention to AI economics, data cooperatives and anticipatory
AI governance. His international career includes research and
policy appointments over the last 20 years at the University
of Oxford, Cardiff University, the European Commission\u2019s Joint
Research Centre and the United Nations (UN-Habitat), alongside
a US\u2013UK Fulbright Scholar award in California. More recently,
he has been just selected as an expert member of the European
Commission\u2019s Frontier AI Expert Forum and AI Act Advisory
Forum. His book,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Datafied
Democracies & AI Economics Unplugged</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Springer,
2025), advances this agenda by examining the geopolitical
struggle over digital infrastructures and its consequences for
democracy. His forthcoming books include<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Understanding
AI Economics</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Edward Elgar,
2026),<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Anticipatory
AI Governance</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Palgrave
Macmillan, 2027), and<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Benchmarking
City-Regions</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Routledge,
2027).</span><br>
</font></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Arial"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Moderator</b></span></font></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Arial"><b>Min Jiang</b>, Professor of Communication
Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and
Non-Resident Scholar at New America. <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">She is
a Secretariat member of the Chinese Internet Research
Conference (CIRC) and Vice Chair of the Communication Law and
Policy Division of the International Communication Association
(ICA). Her work lies at the intersections of digital
technology, geopolitics and policy with a focus on China and
the Global South. She co-edited four special journal issues
and published over 40 journal articles and chapters. She is
lead editor of<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Digital
Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Cambridge
University Press, 2025, open access) and<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">US-China
Power Play</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(Michigan
State University Press, forthcoming).<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br>
</font></p>
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Online</b></font></p>
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<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Arial">Best regards,<br>Maysa Amer and <!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;">Riccardo Nanni</span><br>GigaNet</font></p>
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