A workshop summary The expanding digital ecosystem we live in has done two seemingly contradictory things. It has created massive gaps in identification – a universe of unidentified virtual objects – while at the same time massively enhancing our ability to create, assign and track unique identifiers to practically anything....
From December 2024 to March 2025, users of the Reddit community r/ChangeMyView encountered people who seemed unusually articulate and persuasive. They engaged in heated discussions with these individuals, and many users developed a sense of familiarity and rapport with them, sometimes finding themselves persuaded by their arguments. But these people...
Am I talking to a human or a bot? Is that face on Zoom a real person or gen-AI trained to sound like my boss? Is the software update I allowed coming from the vendor or from an adversary installing malware? Should this user be able to see that content?...
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 take root, people make more money and lift themselves by their bootstraps. Tanzania was supposed to follow that script, but...
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 technological leadership and national security is advanced by looking backwards and throwing obstacles at trailing China rather than running faster...
On February 27th, President Trump directed all federal agencies to cease using Anthropic's technology after the company refused the Pentagon's demand to allow lawful use of its AI models for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. Much of the current media coverage frames this dispute as a straightforward ethical...
The Internet Governance Project's coverage in 2025 documents a troublesome ongoing global shift from "multistakeholder" governance and ICT liberalization norms toward an era characterized by aggressive techno-nationalism and state-centric control over networks, software applications, and expression. However, there were also important positive developments surrounding decentralized digital currency, a pragmatic transition...
An Official Pre-Summit Event of the AI Impact Summit 2026 As artificial intelligence reshapes economies worldwide, critical questions emerge: Who benefits from AI development? How do export controls and geopolitical barriers affect global collaboration? What balance can we strike between innovation and creators' rights? The Internet Governance Project at Georgia...
The CTO of Palantir Technologies Shyam Sankar recently criticized Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's idea that selling products in China would ultimately serve U.S. interests by making China dependent on American technology. Sankar argued that deepening economic dependence on China would only finance America's own destruction. Huang, for his part, has...
In mid-September 2025, U.S. and Chinese officials convened in Madrid for a high-level negotiation that yielded a breakthrough on the TikTok deal: a “basic framework consensus” for resolving the long dispute over the platform. This meeting marked the fourth round of China–U.S. trade and technology negotiations since Trump announced new...
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.”
