The BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – play an increasingly important role in the global digital economy. With forty percent of the world’s population and twenty-five percent of global GDP, these nations  contribute to the digital economy supply chain from data  and chips to algorithms and telecommunications infrastructure. These nations practice digital sovereignty — a widely misunderstood term, and their conceptions, narratives, and initiatives of digital sovereignty remain understudied. This volume is the first to explore digital sovereignty from a multi-country Global South perspective. It tackles a wide range of digital sovereignty topics and varied methodologies. Please join us as we define and discuss digital sovereignty in the BRICS.

Speakers:

Dr. Min Jiang, Professor of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Dr. Luca Belli, Director – Center for Technology & Society, Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School

Moderator:

Dr. Susan Aaronson, Founder and Director, Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub. co-PI, Governance, NSF Trustworthy AI Institute for Law and Society