Events & Publications
DIGISOV research seminar 2025-2026
The ANR DIGISOV project, “Digital Governance and Sovereignty in a Fractured World: Competing States and the Circulation of Norms,” is continuing its series of research seminars for the 2025–2026 academic year. These seminars provide an opportunity to deepen our...
Article | Souveraineté numérique et concurrence des régimes politiques : origines et perspectives
Publication as part of the special issue « Constitutionnalisme numérique et approches critiques en droit et technologie » in the Revue des droits et libertés fondamentaux, edited by Manon Altwegg-Boussac and Afroditi Marketou. Benjamin Loveluck, « Souveraineté...
Article | China’s strategic approach to tech diplomacy in a time of global uncertainty
Zhao Alexandre Huang and Xiang Meng, “China’s strategic approach to tech diplomacy in a time of global uncertainty”, Global Policy, online first, 2025 In the wake of U.S.-China technological competition and the COVID-19 pandemic, “tech diplomacy” has gained prominence...
Article | Quand fragmentation d’Internet rime avec profits
Alors qu’à l’origine, Internet devait se construire sur un modèle distribué, la fameuse toile, sa structure tend à se fracturer. En cause, un double mouvement de consolidation et de privatisation du réseau qui fragmente Internet en un ensemble de réseaux séparés,...
Article | Géopolitique(s) de l’intelligence artificielle
Une nouvelle intelligence générative a fait irruption dans les mondes numériques : DeepSeek. Cette arrivée confirme qu’une nouvelle course à l’innovation, des années après la conquête spatiale, oppose les principaux acteurs des technologies de l’information et de la...
Article | Safer spaces by design? Federated socio-technical architectures in content moderation
Users of secure messaging tools, especially in communities attuned to the risks of state-based and other forms of censorship, increasingly hesitate to delegate their data to centralised platforms, endowed with substantial power to filter content and block user...
Article | Towards a “State-automaton”? Artificial intelligence, transformations of work and public action
The article addresses the introduction and operation of devices supported by artificial intelligence (AI), in public action. In recent years, States and governments—including France—have increasingly used this type of instrument in a wide variety of areas. The use of...
Article | QUIC, or the battle that never was: A case of infrastructuring control over Internet traffic
This article investigates the development and deployment process of QUIC, a new standard of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) that is fostering momentous architectural change in the ways in which communication and data packets transport happens on the...
Metrics of Sovereignty: Mixed Methods Approach to Sovereign Networks
This workshop, co-organized by DIGISOV, the Citizen Lab and GEODE, will take place on 21 May 2025, from 9:30 to 17:00, in Paris 17th (CNRS Pouchet) and by videoconference. To participate, please register. Presentation Digital sovereignty is an increasing...
Article | Réseaux sociaux et risques systémiques : les premiers pas dans la mise en œuvre du Digital Services Act
Anastasia Iliopoulou-Penot, professor at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University and member of the DIGISOV project, published a contribution in La Semaine Juridique on 7 April 2025: « Réseaux sociaux et risques systémiques : les premiers pas dans la mise en œuvre du Digital...
Chapter | Circumventing the “sovereignization” of the Russian Internet
Françoise Daucé, Ksenia Ermoshina, Benjamin Loveluck and Francesca Musiani co-authored a chapter entitled “Circumventing the 'sovereignization' of the Russian internet” in the collective volume edited by Min Jiang and Luca Belli, Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS...
Chapter | China’s public diplomacy: a historical analysis of its institutions and conceptual pathways
Zhao Alexandre Huang, member of the DIGISOV project, published a chapter entitled “China's public diplomacy: a historical analysis of its institutions and conceptual pathways” in the collective volume edited by Sean Aday, Handbook on Public Diplomacy, Edward Elgar...