The political economy within which technologies are developed and deployed plays an important role in determining their effect on our societies. When citizens drive the growth of platforms, and governments mitigate harm and incubate innovation, such collaboration forms the basis of a healthy “digital social contract”. On the other hand, when corporations exist solely to serve the state we see emerging technologies deployed to maximise state control over citizens. A contest for influence between democratic and authoritarian capitalism is playing out in digital economies across the world. Are existing international institutions ill-equipped to handle this contest? Can emerging economies forge a viable “third way” in this contest? Speakers include:-
Dennis Broeders, Senior Fellow, Tha Hague Program for Cyber Norms
Mihir Sharma, Senior Fellow, ORF
Pavel Koshkin, Research Fellow, Institute for US-Canadian Studies
Marek Szczygieł, Ambassador-at-large, International Cyber Policy, Poland
Viktoria Ivanchenko, Editor-in-chief – PICREADI
Winston Wenyan Ma, Adjunct Professor at NYU
