IGP at IAEA Technical Meeting 2025

From June 23 to June 27, 2025, the 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 gather expert advice, operational knowledge, and research insights on the...

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 firms heavily invested in AI, defense tech, and automation (e.g.,...

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 open-source large language model from China—intensified the technological competition between the...

“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 nation’s dependence on foreign technologies and nurturing domestic technology providers...