Social Media Governance in Georgia and Beyond

On Thursday, 02 November 2023, Member of the ZeMKI’s Platform Governance, Media, and Technology Lab Dr. Dennis Redeker convenes a panel discussion entitled “Building Trust in the Digital Age: How to fight hate and misinformation on social media – in Georgia and beyond”. The public event will take place at 17:00-19:00h at Haus der Wissenschaft (1st floor) in Bremen. Four […]

Digital Constitutionalism and the UN Global Digital Compact

This Blended Intensive Program (BIP) was organized by the Digital Constitutionalism Network (DCN) and offered students from different European universities an opportunity to come together, both virtually and in person, to discuss issues pertaining to digital developments and related global policy development processes. The BIP is part of a teaching partnership that the DCN has […]

REMIT Roundtable on the UN Global Digital Compact

On 25 April 2024, about forty members of the public, including university students and staff, participated in a public roundtable event organized by REMIT researcher Dennis Redeker at UBREMEN. The event focused on the state of affairs for multilateralism and multistakeholderism in the governance of digital technologies, against the background of the ongoing negotiations of […]

Fit for Future: A Visioning Exercise for Digital Cooperation

The session "Fit for Future" was a visioning exercise focused on advancing global digital cooperation. Anchored in the World Summit on Information Society, 20-year review (WSIS + 20 review) and the Global Digital Compact (GDC), the session aimed to identify gaps and institutional deficits in digital governance while fostering discussions on how global cooperation can deliver digital justice. The session brought together a diverse set of stakeholders from governmental, civil society, and technical communities. The session was divided into three rounds.

Governing or governed by online platforms? Interdisciplinary perspectives on Constitutionalism, the EU and Corporate Power

Digital platforms and content moderation raise complex political, legal, and empirical questions. These challenges arise from platforms' global reach and the intertwined relationship between state power and corporate power, where the latter profits from forms of information capitalism. Recently, the EU has adopted various regulations to mitigate the risks and harms associated with platforms and […]

Salerno Winter School on Internet Governance (SWING)

SWING is a Winter School on Internet Governance designed to provide an advanced educational pathway for graduate students, early researchers, ICT professionals, and policymakers. The program aims to enhance the understanding of the themes and the stakeholders involved in the development, configuration, administration, and regulation of the Internet and digital technologies. Participants will gain comprehensive […]

Erasmus+ Blended-Intensive Program: Digital Constitutionalism and Digital Sovereignty

2025 BIP | 26-30 May 2025, Salerno We are excited to announce that the next edition of the Digital Constitutionalism Teaching Partnership's Erasmus+ Blended-Intensive Program (BIP) is planned for late May 2025 and will be hosted by the University of Salerno. Held alongside the 9th GIG-ARTS Conference, this year's BIP focuses on the theme "Digital […]

The Rise of Digital Sovereignty: Ambiguities and Challenges

9th GIG-ARTS Conference | 26-27 May 2025, Salerno The Rise of Digital Sovereignty: Ambiguities and Challenges Deadline for abstract submissions: 31 January 2025 The European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies (GIG-ARTS) gathers scholars and practitioners in an annual conference to debate the latest research on governing the global internet. […]

2025 GigaNet Symposium

On June 23, 2025 DCN members Dr. Dennis Redeker, Dr. Mariëlle Wijermars and Dr. Nicola Palladino were part of GigaNet's Annual Symposium during the Internet Governance Forum 2025 in Lillestrøm, Norway. They presented research results from a joint project on discourse coalitions found across Internet, platform and AI governance “digital bills of rights” (1992-2023) on the panel […]

EMILDAI Summer School 2025

30 June - 4 July 2025, Universidad de León EMILDAI Summer School 2025: Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity in Europe – Sovereignty, Democracy and Rights From 30 June to 4 July 2025, the EMILDAI Summer School will take place at the Universidad de León, Spain, hosted in the Salón de Grados of the Escuela de Ingenierías. This […]

SISP 2025 Panel on EU Cybersecurity Governance

The 2025 Annual Conference of the Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP) will take place in Naples, Italy, from 4–6 September 2025. As part of the section “Digitalization: Normative and Empirical Challenges for Political Science,” members of the DCU Law and Tech Research Cluster are organising the panel: “Institutionalizing Cybersecurity in the European Union: A […]