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Tanzania Is Getting Online. Its Digital Economy Isn’t Following.

Across most of the developing world, the story of the last two decades has been a hopeful one: as people come online, the digital economy grows, services expand, new businesses […]

Anthropic Tries to Revive the “AI Pause”

Back in 2023, the Future of Life Institute issued a open letter calling to “pause giant AI experiments” before runaway AI destroyed humanity.   Three years later, machine learning applications […]

Running a Race Looking Backwards: US Digital Export Controls

Congress has introduced another law tightening export controls on additional segments of the semiconductor industry (the MATCH Act). Like all the others, it is based on the premise that US […]

AI, Project Glasswing, and the Changing Institutional Economics of Bugs

On April 7, Anthropic published a 244-page system card for a model that will not be made generally available for now. Claude Mythos Preview, the company’s newest frontier model, is […]

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The Political Economy of Digital Governance in Tanzania: Pathways to ICT Sector Growth

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WSIS and the Future of Digital Governance

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Interconnection and Rivalry in Global Monetary Networks

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Battery Energy Storage Systems from China: Being Realistic about Costs and Risks

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The Myth of AGI: How the illusion of Artificial General Intelligence distorts and distracts digital governance

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What is ‘national’ security in a globally connected digital economy?

Declaring Independence in Cyberspace

Declaring Independence in Cyberspace tells the story of the struggle between governments and the global Internet community over control of the Internet registries (IANA). It offers new insights into a pressing question with profound implications: is state sovereignty the immutable foundation of global governance, or can new technological capabilities change the model?

“This is a book that needed to be written, and no one is better placed to write it than Milton Mueller. This full, rigorous account provides researchers and policymakers with a precious resource on global internet governance.”

Jan Aart Scholte, Leiden University

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