Webinar | AI Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries
The webinar “AI Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries” was held on February 2, 2025 and, taking advantage of Brazil’s BRICS presidency, promoted a debate on strategies, policies and regulations adopted by the BRICS countries to assert Artificial Intelligence Sovereignty. The event was jointly organized by FGV Direito Rio’s Centre for Technology and Society (CTS) and … Read more
Webinar | Data Governance in the BRICS
The Data Governance in the BRICS webinar was organized by FGV Direito Rio’s Centre for Technology and Society in partnership with the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and aimed to provide an overview of the data governance architecture of the BRICS countries, with a special focus on the intersection between data and AI regulations. The … Read more
Call for Submissions for the Workshop on Digital Competition in the BRICS
The BRICS Competition Law & Policy Centre and the Center for Technology and Society at FGV Direito Rio (CTS-FGV), is pleased to announce a Call for Submissions for a Workshop on Digital Competition in the BRICS, which will take place on November 27 and 28, 2025, at FGV Law School in Rio de Janeiro.
When AI Meets Cybersecurity: Framing Brazil’s Information Security and AI Challenges
Published in the “Digital Democracy in a Divided Global Landscape” “When AI Meets Cybersecurity: Framing Brazil’s Information Security and AI Challenges” in published in the “Digital Democracy in a Divided Global Landscape” from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
From Internet Governance to Digital Cooperation
From Internet Governance to Digital Cooperation, by Markus Kummer
FOSTERING SUSTAINABLE DATA FLOWS IN THE BRICS COUNTRIES, TOWARDS A GLOBAL FRAMEWORK FOR DATA GOVERNANCE.
Chapter “FOSTERING SUSTAINABLE DATA FLOWS IN THE BRICS COUNTRIES, TOWARDS A GLOBAL FRAMEWORK FOR DATA GOVERNANCE” in the book “PERSONAL DATA ARCHITECTURES IN THE BRICS COUNTRIES”, by Luca Belli, Walter Gaspar and Pablo Palazzi
Digital Transformation and Meaningful Connectivity in the BRICS
04/16/2025 – 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM GMT-3 This webinar will offer the opportunity to debate how members of the BRICS grouping are addressing their digital transformation and what type of strategies and policies are they enacting in order to promote meaningful connectivity. The webinar is organized by the Center for Technology and Society at FGV … Read more
Transformação digital, cibersegurança e IA: qual é a estratégia do Brasil?
O Professor da FGV Direito Rio e coordenador do CTS-FGV Luca Belli, conjuntamente com Rony Vainzof, escreveu o artigo para a revista Folha de S. Paulo. A transformação digital, baseada em desenvolvimento, integração e regulação de IA e cibersegurança é, hoje, uma das principais alavancas para impulsionar a competitividade global, a inclusão social e o crescimento econômico … Read more
BRICS promotes webinar on data economy in the digital economy community on March 18
On 18 March, the Brazilian ministries of Development, Industry, Trade, and Services (Desenvolvimento, Indústria, Comércio e Serviços/MDIC) and Foreign Affairs (Relações Exteriores/MRE) hosted the webinar “Leveraging Data Economy in the BRICS Digital Economy Community”. The event was broadcasted live in English on the MDIC YouTube channel. As part of Brasil’s 2025 BRICS Presidency, the online seminar … Read more
What Would it Take for Digital Public Infrastructures to Actually Serve the Public?
CyberBRICS researcher Mila Samdub wrote the article for The Wire magazine. Today, the term “digital public infrastructure” is used around the world to refer to a range of digital projects across different contexts. Over the past five years, this fuzzy concept was promoted by US funding bodies and international organisations to refer to a development … Read more
Da soberania digital à soberania em IA
O Professor da FGV Direito Rio e coordenador do CTS-FGV, Luca Belli, escreveu o artigo para a revista Jota. Ao longo dos últimos anos, o assunto da soberania digital emergiu como um dos temas mais debatidos nos círculos das políticas digitais. Desde 2020, o projeto CyberBRICS do Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade da FGV Direito Rio vem … Read more
“Digital Public Infrastructure” at a Turning Point from Definitions to Motivations
Author: Mila Samdub Abstract This paper examines the evolution of the concept of “digital public infrastructure”, tracing ahistory from an initial phase of openness through the phase of global popularization to acurrent phase of localization. It highlights the consolidation of a dominant model based ondigital identity, payments and data exchanges driven by a coalition of … Read more
The Quest for AI Sovereignty, Transparency and Accountability
This volume is the result of a participatory process developed by the Data and Artificial Intelligence Governance (DAIG) Coalition of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF). An early version of this volume’s contribution was presented at the IGF 2023, in Kyoto, Japan, to receive feedback from the IGF participants.
Artificial Intelligence “Law(s)” in China: Retrospect and Prospect
Abstract This paper examines China’s evolving AI regulation, focusing on the interplay between fragmented laws, technical standards, and sectoral governance frameworks. Case studies on autonomous driving and financial AI demonstrate how adaptive regulatory models balance innovation with risk management via pilot projects, stringent data protection, and iterative policy evolution. These models transition from localized experiments … Read more
Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries
How the Global South and Emerging Power Alliances Are Reshaping Digital Governance This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core Abstract In a world where digital development and policymaking are dominated by Silicon Valley tech giants, the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – play an increasingly important role. … Read more
Governance Considerations of Adversarial Attacks on AI Systems
Abstract Paper produced by CyberBrics fellow Nombulelo Faith Lekota.
Policy Brief: BRICS Expansion and Prospects for BRICS Cooperation in the Digital Economy
Abstract Policy Brief produced by cyberbrics fellow Alexander Ignatov for the Russian International Affairs Council.
What is Digital Public Infrastructure? Towards More Specificity
CyberBRICS researcher Mila Samdub wrote the article for Tech Policy Press magazine. In 2024, Digital Public Infrastructure is a key topic of discussion and debate in tech policy circles. The term, abbreviated to “DPI,” encompasses a wide range of digital systems, from grassroots social media platforms that empower communities to state-promoted interfaces for delivering welfare … Read more
Stack is the New Black?: Evolution and Outcomes of the ‘India-Stackification’ Process
Abstract India is going through a transformative phase in its digital journey. A large part of this is enfolding in the field of digital public infrastructures as the ‘India Stack’ branded suite of technological solutions permeates through areas like digital identity, instant payments, digital commerce, and consent management. The paper traces the socio-technical imaginaries that have … Read more
WHITE PAPER: A PROPOSAL ON EX-ANTE REGULATION OF ECOSYSTEMS IN BRAZIL
White Paper presented at the 3rd BRICS + Digital Competition Forum WHITE PAPER A PROPOSAL ON EX-ANTE REGULATION OF ECOSYSTEMS IN BRAZIL
3rd BRICS + Digital Competition Forum
22 November 2024 The 3rd BRICS+ Digital Competition Forum is a collaborative event focused on key competition issues related to the digital economy. The Forum aims to address challenges, share insights and promote cooperation between BRICS jurisdictions. The opportunity provides a platform for competition authorities, academics and civil society to exchange ideas and explore harmonized … Read more
Digital transformation in Russia: Turning from A service model to ensuring technological sovereignty
Pre-print version of Martynova E. and Shcherbovich A. Digital transformation in Russia: Turning from aservice model to ensuring technological sovereignty. Computer Law & Security Review. Special issue onDigital Transformation in the BRICS Countries, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2024.106075 Abstract The paper outlines core aspects of the digital transformation process in Russia since the early2000s, as well as recent legislative … Read more
Webinar | Digital Public Infrastructure for Sovereign AI
The event ‘Digital Public Infrastructure for Sovereign AI’ brings together experts from different fields to discuss the role of digital public infrastructures in strengthening the technological sovereignty of the BRICS countries in the development of Artificial Intelligence. With the participation of fellows from CTS-FGV’s CyberBRICS project and guest experts, the event will address how these … Read more
Views: BRICS 2024—Towards a New Consensus on AI, Cybersecurity and Digital Sovereignty?
FGV Direito Rio professor and CTS-FGV coordinator Luca Belli wrote the article for Medianama magazine. This past week, the Heads of State of the BRICS group met in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, hosted by the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. For the first time, the group was officially … Read more
Brics 2024: IA, cibersegurança e soberania digital rumo à sustentabilidade?
O Professor da FGV Direito Rio e coordenador do CTS-FGV, Luca Belli, escreveu o artigo para a revista Folha de S. Paulo. Nesta semana, os chefes de estado do Brics se reuniram em Kazan, capital da República do Tartaristão, recebidos pelo presidente da Rússia, Vladimir Putin. Pela primeira vez o grupo se encontra oficialmente na sua nova configuração … Read more
Toward a BRICS Stack? Leveraging Digital Transformation to Construct Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries
Abstract The article is the editorial of the journal’s special issue on digital transformation in BRICS and analyzes how the last decade of digital transformation has brought to light both the benefits and the risks associated with the massive adoption of digital technologies. It highlights how meaningful connectivity and inclusive digital services and cyber-insurance have … Read more
What Would a People-centred AI Policy for India Look Like?
Abstract Digital sovereignty should not be measured by the government’s autonomy to impose its wishes on its own people, and technological leadership should not be measured by the number of start-ups, funds raised, or people unilaterally subjected to faulty artificial intelligence. Sovereignty and leadership in technology should mean developing appropriate solutions for real problems. This … Read more
South Africa’s Digital Transformation: Understanding the Limits of Traditional Policies and the Potential of Alternative Approaches
Abstract This paper analyses the readiness of South African information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure for the implementation of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies, which has been highly prioritised by policymakers in recent years. The discussion is centred around examples of smart cities and connectivity. Opportunities have been identified in the form of complimentary bottom-up initiatives. … Read more
Contextualizing Personal Information: Privacy’s Post-Neoliberal Constitutionalism and Its Heterogeneous Imperfections in China
Abstract This article examines the evolutionary trajectory of perceptual diversification concerning Yinsi, privacy, and personal information in China. It elucidates how efforts to integrate privacy within the constitutional framework, a complex undertaking, have resulted in a heterogeneous system. This system forges an economically rational, technologically trustworthy, and socially experimental infrastructure that simultaneously embodies materialist and … Read more
Open government data in the Brazilian digital government: Enabling an SDG acceleration agenda
Abstract Open Government Data (OGD) has evolved from the mere generation of public data to its active management, but the strategic evolution still needs to be explored. This article explores the intersection of government’s digital transformation, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the role of government open data initiatives. The study focuses on the Brazilian … Read more
Germano Paulo Johansson Neto
Germano Johansson holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and two master’s degrees from the University of Southern California, one in Infrastructure and the other in Public Policy and Planning. Since 2019, he has specialized in internet governance and digital sovereignty. He currently serves as a parliamentary advisor in Brazil’s Federal Senate. Germano is currently … Read more
CPDP LatAm 2024: construir governança de dados de maneira soberana e sustentável
O Professor da FGV Direito Rio e coordenador do CTS-FGV Luca Belli, conjuntamente com os pesquisadores do CTS FGV Rio, Walter Britto Gaspar e Nicolo Zingales, redigiram o artigo para a revista Jota. Nos dias 17 e 18 de julho, aconteceu a 4ª edição da Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference Latin America (CPDP LatAm), conferência … Read more
É preciso ser mais crítico sobre inteligência artificial
O Professor da FGV Direito Rio e coordenador do CTS-FGV Luca Belli, escreveu o artigo para a revista O Globo. Ao longo dos últimos dias, a ficha caiu. Finalmente, “os mercados” se deram conta do que inúmeros acadêmicos têm falado nos últimos anos: existe uma quantidade assustadora de charlatanismo sobre inteligência artificial (IA). Já em … Read more
Data Sovereignty and Data Transfers as Fundamental Elements of Digital Transformation: Lessons from the BRICS Countries
Abstract When talking about digital transformation, data sovereignty considerations and data transfers cannot be excluded from the discussion, given the considerable likelihood that digital technologies deployed along the process collect, process and transfer (personal) data in multiple jurisdictions. An increasing number of nations, especially those within the BRICS grouping (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South … Read more
Regulação da IA: qual o recado da ANPD para o Brasil e o G20?
Os pesquisadores do CyberBRICS Luca Belli, Sofia Chang, Rodrigo Gomes, Beatriz Costa, Fernando Naegele e Daniel Dore Lage, escreveram o artigo para a revista Jota. A recente decisão da ANPD de determinar a suspensão da nova política de privacidade da Meta é destinada a ter repercussões bem além do caso específico e das fronteiras nacionais. Nos próximos meses, as … Read more
Webinar | Cybersecurity in the G20
This event is part of a series of webinars on Digital Policies in the G20 jointly organised by CTS-FGV, the UN University’s Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance, Consumers International, and the Brazilian Institute for Consumer Protection The webinars will explore key cybersecurity issues form the perspectives of G20 stakeholders. Particularly, representatives of different types … Read more
Webinar | Cibersegurança no Brasil: como construir uma estratégia e uma agência?
This webinar explored the priorities for Brazil’s new cybersecurity strategy and analysed what the institutional design of cybersecurity governance in Brazil should look like. The Brazilian Cybersecurity Network was launched, an initiative led by the academic community and aimed at stimulating the study of cybersecurity in the country. Speakers:Marcelo Malagutti – GSI Special AdvisorIngrid Barbosa … Read more
Seguro cyber pode reduzir riscos cibernéticos no Brasil?
O Professor da FGV Direito Rio e coordenador do CTS-FGV Luca Belli, conjuntamente com Péricles Gonçalves Filho, escreveu o artigo para a revista Estadão. A Política Nacional de Cibersegurança (PNCiber) lançada recentemente pelo governo federal estabelece um sistema de governança baseado na cooperação e coordenação entre os setores público e privado. Em tal contexto, o seguro cibernético desponta como … Read more
Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS: Structuring Self-determination, Cybersecurity, and Control
Pre-print version of Luca Belli & Min Jiang. Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS: Structuring Self-determination, Cybersecurity, and Control. in Jiang M. & Belli L. (Eds) Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries: How the Global South and Emerging Power Alliances Are Reshaping Digital Governance. Cambridge University Press. (2024)
Contesting Digital Sovereignty: Untangling a Complex and Multifaceted Concept
Pre-print version of Min Jiang & Luca Belli. Contesting Digital Sovereignty: Untangling aComplex and Multifaceted Concept. Jiang M. & Belli L. (Eds) Digital Sovereignty in theBRICS Countries: How the Global South and Emerging Power Alliances Are ReshapingDigital Governance. Cambridge University Press. (2024)
Information Integrity in G20
Article by Yasmin Curzi and Luca Belli Constructing a concept of a program agenda The combat of disinformation, hate speech, synthetic content produced by generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) and harmful algorithmic practices by private actors are topics that have emerged as fundamental themes for the protection of democracy and human rights. In this context the … Read more
Webinar | Meaningful Connectivity in the G20
New event April 26th 11:00 BRT (GMT -3) We are pleased to announce the webinar “Meaningful Connectivity in the G20” that will take place on 26 April, 11:00 (GMT-3). The webinar is an official event of T20, the G20 think tank group. This event is part of a series of webinars on Digital Policies in … Read more
Brasil precisa liderar o debate global sobre soberania de IA
O Professor da FGV Direito Rio e coordenador do CTS-FGV Luca Belli, conjuntamente com Alexandre Costa Barbosa, escreveram o artigo para a revista O Globo. Entramos na era da soberania de IA. Como no âmbito da soberania digital, precisamos defender uma concepção desse conceito pautada no direito fundamental à autodeterminação e na capacidade de um … Read more
Regulating Facial Recognition in Brazil
By Luca Belli , Walter Britto Gaspar and Nicolo Zingales. This article is a chapter of The Cambridge Handbook of Facial Recognition in the Modern State. Summary Almost forty Brazilian cities have begun to deploy facial recognition technology (FRT) in a bid to automate the public safety, transportation, and border control sectors. Such initiatives are … Read more
Securing South Africa’s elections through Popia and the Cybercrimes Act
By Sizwe Snail ka Mtuze, Lucien Pierce, Melody Musoni and Carl Heinz Uys As South Africa and other African countries prepare for elections in 2024, cybersecurity and the protection of personal data must be prioritised. The stakes are high. Cybersecurity breaches and incidents within government and its related agencies have been coming thick and fast. Cybersecurity … Read more
Regulação da inteligência artificial para inglês ver?
O Professor da FGV Direito Rio e coordenador do CTS-FGV, Luca Belli, escreveu o artigo para a revista Jota. Em novembro de 2023, o governo britânico organizou o primeiro AI Safety Summit, que culminou com uma declaração assinada por 28 governos, dentre os quais o brasileiro, que se uniu a um grupo bastante heterogêneo, que inclui … Read more
AI Governance in the G20 – Webinar Report
🔗Watch the full webinar here: https://www.youtube.com/live/ocMRJQo3J_Y?si=0hXUshoXZZJZ2szW English Luca Belli, CTS-FGV coordinator, opened the webinar emphasizing the importance of the Brazilian presidency of the G20 in conveying the voice of the Global South, following India and just before the South African presidency. These are three countries that are also key members of the BRICS group. He … Read more
webinar | AI Governance in the G20
New event 23 February from 10:00 to 12:00 BRT (GMT-3). We are pleased to announce the webinar “AI Governance in the G20” that will take place on 23 February from 10:00 to 12:00 BRT (GMT-3). This event is part of a series of webinars on Digital Policies in the G20 jointly organised by CTS-FGV, and … Read more
Professor Luca Belli appointed member of the new Brazilian Cybersecurity Committee
On 9 February 2024 the Brazilian Presidency’s Institutional Security Cabinet (GSI) appointed the members of the new National Cybersecurity Committee (CNciber), established by Presidential Decree 11.856/2023. CyberBRICS Director and CTS-FGV Coordinator, Professor Luca Belli, has been appointed as one of the members of the CNciber for a three-year mandate. Yasmin Curzi, a professor at FGV … Read more
BRICS in the Digital economy: competition policy in practice
Nicolo Zingles contributed to the prepration of the second report pf the BRICS Digital Policy Working Group Professor at FGV Law School and researcher at CTS-FGV, Nicolo Zingales, contributed to the preparation of the second report of the BRICS Digital Economy Working Group. #cyberBRICS The group was established in 2017 during the BRICS International Competition … Read more
EU-Brazil Dialogue on AI and Data Empowerment laws
New event December 1st l 14:00 EST We are pleased to announce the event “EU-Brazil Dialogue on AI and Data Empowerment laws” A roundtable that will reflect on the social and regulatory challenges brought about by the increased use and sophistication of artificial intelligence technologies and, in particular, generative AI applications based on high-dimensional language … Read more
Call For Applications | CyberBRICS Fellowship Programme 2024
Hosted by the Center for Technology and Society at FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro, part ofthe Fellows in Rio Programme Deadline for applications: 10 December 2023 The Center for Technology and Society at FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro – FGV DIREITO RIO ispleased to announce the 2024 edition of the CyberBRICS Fellowship Programme, … Read more
Building Good Digital Sovereignty through Digital Public Infrastructures and Digital Commons in India and Brazil
This essay was originally published on the website of the T20 India, the official Think Tank engagement group of the G20 https://t20ind.org/research/building-good-digital-sovereignty-through-digital-public-infrastructures/ The past decade has witnessed the emergence of multiple debates on digital sovereignty, a hotly debated topic, that does not have a universal definition yet. Traditional conceptions of sovereignty are intimately intertwined with the … Read more
China’s digital transformation: Data-empowered state capitalism and social governmentality
Article by Wayne Wei Wang
Interoperability to foster Open digital ecosystems in the BRICS countries
Article by Luca Belli and Nicolo Zingales
Digital Personal Data Protection Bill: Spectre of a Barbenheimer future
CyberBRICS researcher Smriti Parsheera wrote the article for The Indian Express magazine. India at 75 is still taking baby steps into the realm of data privacy. It has been just five years since we acquired a definitive right to privacy. A law on digital data protection, very different from the one that was debated for half a … Read more
Twenty-first Edition Of The CyberBRICS Observatory Bulletin
Publications – New Data Architectures In Brazil, China, And India: From Copycats To Innovators, Towards A Post-Western Model Of Data Governance Paper by CyberBRICS Director Luca Belli, published at the Indian Journal of Law and Technology. Artigo de autoria de Luca Belli (Diretor do CyberBRICS), publicado no Indian Journal of Law and Technology. – Searching … Read more
Dynamic Spectrum Sharing: Unlocking Connectivity and Innovation in South Africa’s Telecommunications Landscape
Article by CyberBRICS Fellow Dr Senka Hadzic South Africa’s telecommunications sector has transitioned from a state-owned monopoly to a more competitive environment over the past 25 years, with mobile communications and broadband access playing a crucial role in the country’s socioeconomic development. While broadband infrastructure has improved over the years, there are still challenges in … Read more
Webinar: Cybersecurity and Cybercrime: understanding Global Developments
The technologies we use daily, and we are adopting to foster “digital transformation” can be misused for highly unethical purposes and can present considerable vulnerabilities threatening cybersecurity. This webinar explores recent cybersecurity and cybercrime developments, to understand how existing initiatives can help coping with cyberthreats. Panellists discussed: • How can technology be misused to threaten … Read more
Open Data and Emerging Technologies: Connecting SDG Performance and Digital Transformation
Policy Brief by Larissa Magalhães (CyberBRICS Fellow) & Soumaya Ben Dhaou (United Nations University) presented at the 8th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals
Seminário: A Construção do Marco Regulatório da Inteligência Artificial no Brasil
No dia 17/04/2023, nosso Diretor Luca Belli, nossa pesquisadora Nina da Hora e a Professora Visitante do CTS-FGV Bianca Kremer participaram do Seminário “A construção do marco regulatório da Inteligência Artificial no Brasil”, organizado pelo Centro de Estudos Judiciários do Conselho da Justiça Federal (CEJ/CJF) e o Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ) em Brasília. O … Read more
Platform Councils: Solving or Creating Regulatory Vulnerabilities? A Brazilian Perspective
Paper by Luca Belli (CyberBRICS Director)
Online Content Regulation in the BRICS Countries: A Cybersecurity Approach to Responsible Social Media Platforms
Paper by Luca Belli (CyberBRICS Director), Yasmin Curzi (CyberBRICS Associated Scholar) & Walter Gaspar (CyberBRICS Manager)
Searching for a room of one’s own in cyberspace: Datafication and the global feminisation of privacy
Article by Visiting Professor Anja Kovacs.
New Data Architectures in Brazil, China, and India: From Copycats to Innovators, towards a post-Western Model of Data Governance
Paper by CyberBRICS Director Luca Belli, published at the Indian Journal of Law and Technology.
Cybersecurity and Digital Sovereignty: A New Path for Brazil
This event will address cybersecurity in its various dimensions and will stress its connection with the emerging digital sovereignty debate. As cyberattacks grow exponentially in both number and breath, cybersecurity has become a general concern for literally every citizen, business, public administration, and decision-maker. At the same, cybersecurity discussion are increasingly intertwined with digital sovereignty … Read more
UNESCO Internet For Trust Side-Event: Exploring the Potential and Challenges of Generative AI and impact on Regulating AI and Online Platforms
Recent developments in Generative AI systems have sparked a global conversation about the capabilities and limitations of generative AI technology. These systems have been in the spotlight for their ability to generate human-like text, images, design, and even code, highlighting the tremendous potential of this technology. However, they have also raised concerns about ownership, transparency, … Read more
EU-Brazil Conference on AI Governance and Regulation
This international event aims at exploring challenges and opportunities regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance and regulation at a time when both the European Union and Brazil are elaborating legislative proposals to regulate comprehensively AI. Participants will explore the latest development in Artificial Intelligence policymaking offering their perspectives and highlighting intersections between AI and key areas … Read more
AI Regulation in Brazil: Advancements, Flows, and Need to Learn from the Data Protection Experience
Paper by Luca Belli, Yasmin Curzi and Walter Britto Gaspar published at Computer, Law and Security Review Abstract Brazil has recently moved forward on two important developments in its regulatory framework for artificial intelligence: the creation of a national AI strategy and parliamentary discussions on an overarching AI law. These efforts follow considerable advances in … Read more
An Analysis of India’s New Data Empowerment Architecture
Chapter by CyberBRICS Fellow Smriti Parsheera in the book “Emerging Trends in Data Governance”.
Private and Controversial: When Public Health and Privacy Meet in India
By Smriti Parsheera (CyberBRICS Fellow)1 The book Private and Controversial: When Public Health and Privacy Meet in India brings to light the complex interactions between the fields of public health and privacy, placing them in the context of current developments in India. This includes the developments around the management of the Covid-19 pandemic, the ongoing … Read more
Building Good Digital Sovereignty through Digital Public Infrastructures and Digital Commons in India and Brazil
FGV Direito Rio professor and CTS-FGV coordinator Luca Belli wrote the article for the Think20 India channel. The past decade has witnessed the emergence of multiple debates on digital sovereignty, a hotly debated topic, that does not have a universal definition yet. Traditional conceptions of sovereignty are intimately intertwined with the key features of the state, … Read more
Brazil’s over-centralised governance of digital transformation
Paper by CyberBRICS Fellow Larissa Magalhães, published at the African Journal of Information and Communication
Understanding state-level variations in India’s digital transformation
Paper by CyberBRICS Fellow Smriti Parsheera, published at the African Journal of Information and Communication
BRICS-plus Digital Competition Forum
The 1st BRICS+ Digital Competition Forum took place in Rio de Janeiro, on 24 and 25 November 2022. The Forum brought together the BRICS Digital Working Group, which held its 6th meeting, while opening an opportunity of participation for competition authorities of BRICS candidate countries (Argentina, Egypt, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) and for local academics and … Read more
India’s Policy Responses to Big Tech: And an Eye on the Rise of ‘Alt Big Tech’
Smriti Parsheera The term ‘big tech’ offers a helpful and widely used label for describing the world’s most powerful technology companies. The challenges posed by big tech across the domains of competition, innovation, human rights, and social and political impact are real and immediate. So is the need for building more effective checks against them. … Read more
Cinderella’s shoe won’t fit Soundarya: An audit of facial processing tools on Indian faces
Gaurav Jain & Smriti Parsheera The increasing adoption of facial processing systems in India is fraught with concerns of privacy, transparency, accountability, and missing procedural safeguards. At the same time, we also know very little about how these technologies perform on the diverse features, characteristics, and skin tones of India’s 1.34 billion-plus population. In this paper, … Read more
CyberBRICS at IGF 2022
The 17th annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will take place between November 28th and December 2nd, 2022 in Ethiopia in a hybrid format. Members of the CyberBRICS Team will participate in 6 panels to debate this year’s theme: “Resilient Internet for a Shared Sustainable and Common Future”. The meeting programme is guided … Read more
Webinar – 5G Regulation: Standards, Surveillance and Ideology
On Friday, November 18th, the Center for Technology and Society (CTS-FGV) and the CyberBRICS Project will host the webinar “5G Regulation: Standards, Surveillance, and Ideology” at 11 AM (Rio Time). The event will be moderated by CyberBRICS Director, Luca Belli, and will count with CTS-FGV Visiting Professor Niels ten Oever and ANATEL Telecommunications Regulation Specialist … Read more
Map: Online content normative frameworks in the BRICS
A juxtaposed visualization of BRICS online content regulations.
World Internet Conference – Wuzhen Summit 2022
The CyberBRICS Team attended the 2022 edition of the World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit (WIC Wuzhen). This year, besides participating in two sessions, our team will also publish two papers in the Conference’s Outcome Report. On Wednesday, November 9, CyberBRICS Director Luca Belli attended the “Bridging the Digital Divide” Forum, organized by the China Federation … Read more
MyData Online 2022 Conference – Data Governance from the Global South
Exchange of knowledge about developments relating to data architectures in the BRICS countries is essential to furthering this cooperation. This session is organised by the Center for Technology and Society at FGV and the CyberBRICS Project at FGV Law School, to create a space for the exchange of information about the evolving data governance models … Read more
Data protection in the BRICS countries: Legal interoperability through innovative practices and convergence
This paper was published at International Data Privacy Law, you can access the official version here. Summary:
Governing Conversations: Interoperability
Governing Conversations aims to provide scholars in the digital governance field and interested audiences alike a time for genuine reflection and critical perspectives, without the need for a connection to recent events, or academic presentations. The series is co-created by the Digital Interests Lab at NYU, and the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, … Read more
Regulación E IA
On August 30th, 2022, CyberBRICS Director Luca Belli participated as a speaker in the webinar “Regulación en IA” (Regulation in AI), organized by the Latin American Initiative on Open Data (ILDA). Presenting the Brazilian approach, Belli pointed out that AI is being used not only for e-commerce, but also for facial recognition technologies and access … Read more
Data Governance in the Context of Emerging Technologies: Promoting Human-Centred and Development-Oriented Societies
The importance of data is paramount, not only for promoting innovation, but also for better policymaking and long-term development. Data has become a cornerstone for the digital economy and a strategic asset for promoting the vision of a people-centred and development-oriented ecosystem, set forth by the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). In particular, data availability and … Read more
Governing Conversations: BRICS & Cybersecurity
Governing Conversations aims to provide scholars in the digital governance field and interested audiences alike a time for genuine reflection and critical perspectives, without the need for a connection to recent events, or academic presentations. The series is co-created by the Digital Interests Lab at NYU, and the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, … Read more
Governing Conversations: Cybersecurity in the Global South
Governing Conversations aims to provide scholars in the digital governance field and interested audiences alike a time for genuine reflection and critical perspectives, without the need for a connection to recent events, or academic presentations. The series is co-created by the Digital Interests Lab at NYU, and the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, … Read more
BRICS: New digital locomotives
Article by CyberBRICS Director, Dr. Luca Belli, published at the Beijing Review in July 14, 2022
CPDP LatAm 2022
CPDP LatAm 2022 was dedicated to “Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection in Latin America“. In its second edition, the Conference was held in a hybrid format on 12 and 13 of July, at FGV in Rio de Janeiro, RJ. You can check the full Programme here. CPDP Latam is the Latin American platform to discuss privacy, data … Read more
Digital BRICS Forum 2022
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China will host the 2022 Digital BRICS Forum, which will be held in a hybrid format on 7 July 2022. In September 2018, the 4th BRICS Communications Ministers Meeting decided to establish the Digital BRICS Task Force (DBTF) under the ICT Cooperation Working … Read more
The Race to Regulate AI: Global Comparative Perspectives
As AI systems are quickly becoming ubiquitous, so are the regulatory challenges: across the world, new models have begun to emerge at national, regional, and international levels. There is general consensus that existing instruments are insufficient, potentially even inadequate, to deal with the myriad challenges this development poses — but also considerable divergence on what … Read more
International Seminar on Global Cyberspace Governance 2022
The International Seminar on Global Cyberspace Governance 2022 will take place on 28 June 2022, at 8-10h30 (AM). The event is organized by the International Research Institute of Global Cyberspace Governance, Fudan University. The main theme is “A New Order of Global Cyberspace Governance in the New Time — Building a Community with a Shared … Read more
Non-official translation of Executive Order n. 1124/2022
This is a non-official translation of Executive Order n. 1124/2022, which transforms the Brazilian Data Protection Authority into an independent administrative agency, by the CTS-FGV team – translated by José Luiz Nunes and Luca Belli.
Smart Cities no Brasil: Regulação, Tecnologia e Direitos
Livro organizado por Luca Belli (Coordenador CyberBRICS) e Jess Reia. Confira a versão de acesso aberto:
Closing the Gap 2022
CyberBRICS and the Center for Technology and Society at FGV are partners of the Closing the Gap 2022. In 2022, EU Cyber Direct – EU Cyber Diplomacy Initiative joins forces with the Belgian Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs and numerous research institutions and civil society organisations around the world to organize the second edition of … Read more
RightsCon 2022: “Smart cities or surveillance cities? Untangling urban intelligence” Panel
June 6, 2022 | 13h-14g (GMT-03) The “Smart City” formula has gained traction in academia, business and government to describe cities that, on the one hand, are increasingly composed of and monitored by pervasive and ubiquitous computing and, on the other, are striving to restructure their economy and governance based on innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship. … Read more
Promoting Brics economic integration via Central Bank Digital Currencies
CONFERENCE SYNOPSIS The COVID-19 pandemic and consequent economic crisis have altered global trade. One of the profound changes has been the shift towards digital payments. With this shift, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are rapidly gaining ground, with all BRICS nations in the process of researching or adopting such options. The CBDC offers great … Read more
UN Event On Bridging Digital Divides
On Thursday, 17 March, Luca Belli (CyberBRICS Director) participated as a speaker at the Side-Event of the UN’s 49th Session of the Human Rights Council – “Eliminate the Global Digital Divide and Safeguarding Human Rights”. Belli approached the development of community networks as alternative Internet access models and highlighted their important role in bridging the … Read more
Artificial Intelligence, Global Differences and Inequalities
CyberBRICS Research Fellow Smriti Parsheera participated to the event on “Artificial Intelligence, Global Differences and Inequalities: Challenges and Responsibilities for Researchers and Innovators,” organised by the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility and the global RRING Community. This multistakeholder event analysed what challenges and responsibilities arise from the development and use of AI in a … Read more
CyberBRICS director participates in public hearing on artificial intelligence
Luca Belli (CyberBRICS Director), Ivar Hartmann (CyberBRICS Associated Scholar) and a team of researchers were invited to participate in the public hearings of the Commission of Jurists of the Federal Senate responsible for supporting the elaboration of a substitute on Artificial Intelligence. Luca Belli presented the Chinese approach to AI, based on the CyberBRICS comparative … Read more
Application of LGPD to small-sized processing agents: Non-official translation of the ANPD regulation
This is a non-official translation of the Brazilian Data Protection Authority’s regulation regarding small-sized processing agents by the CTS-FGV team – translated by Eduardo Mattos, Walter B. Gaspar, Yasmin Curzi and Luca Belli. The original text in Portuguese, alongside more information, can be found at the Brazilian Data Protection Authority’s website.
LGPD regulation for small agents: highlights, advances and future paths
By Luca Belli, Nicolo Zingales, Erica Bakonyi, Yasmin Curzi and Walter B. Gaspar In August 2021, the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) started a public consultation for a proposal to regulate the application of the General Data Protection Law (LGPD) to small and medium-sized companies and start-ups. In addition to being an important initiative for … Read more
Luca Belli attends UN event on digital divides
On Thursday, March 17, Luca Belli (CyberBRICS Director) participated as a speaker at the Side-Event of the UN’s 49th Session of the Human Rights Council – “Eliminate the Global Digital Divide and Safeguarding Human Rights”. Belli approached the development of community networks as alternative Internet access models and highlighted their important role in bridging the … Read more
Cybersecurity Policymaking in the BRICS Countries: From Addressing National Priorities to Seeking International Cooperation
Abstract In the concluding statement of the 2021 BRICS Summit, the bloc’s five members—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—pledged to pursue enhanced cooperation on cybersecurity issues, including by “establishing legal frameworks of cooperation among BRICS” and a BRICS intergovernmental agreement on cybersecurity. This piece briefly outlines the mounting relevance of cybersecurity for the BRICS … Read more
Brazil joins the Convention on Cybercrime: How will it impact other BRICS countries?
FGV Direito Rio professor and CTS-FGV coordinator Luca Belli wrote the article for Medianama magazine. Largely unnoticed by the public, a major event took place in the past week. The Federal Senate of Brazil approved the draft legislative decree triggering Brazil’s adhesion to the Convention on Cybercrime, signed in Budapest, Hungary, in 2001, and usually referred to … Read more
Brazil joins the Convention on Cybercrime: How will it impact other BRICS Countries?
The accession to the Convention brings many advantages, but it could complicate the Brazilian stance at the BRICS and UN levels. Largely unnoticed by the public, a major event took place in the past week. The Federal Senate of Brazil approved the draft legislative decree triggering Brazil’s adhesion to the Convention on Cybercrime, signed in Budapest, Hungary, … Read more
O Brasil aderiu à Convenção sobre o Cibercrime: o que isso significa?
Implementar a Convenção de Budapeste irá requerer uma ótima sinergia entre o Legislativo e o Itamaraty Nas últimas semanas, um importante acontecimento passou despercebido para o grande público. O Senado aprovou o Projeto de Decreto Legislativo que abre caminho para a adesão do Brasil à Convenção sobre o Cibercrime, assinada em 2001 na cidade de Budapeste, na … Read more
Smart communities make smart cities
By Senka Hadzic The promotion of smart cities is generally shaped by a technological lens that focuses on digital innovation and data. Yet, technological solutions to complex socio-economic problems do not necessarily foster inclusivity, especially in urban spaces in the Global South. In fact, a report by the OECD released last year argues that poorly planned smart … Read more
Legal Status of Privacy Rights in India – A Comprehensive Analysis of Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019
By Bhavna Sarma, Research Scholar at RML National Law University, Lucknow, India and CyberBRICS Associated Scholar INTRODUCTION Internationally, the right to privacy is well recognised as a fundamental right. Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes the right to privacy and it states that “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference … Read more
CyberBRICS at IGF 2021
The 16th annual IGF meeting will be hosted by the Government of Poland in Katowice from 6-10 December, under the overarching theme: Internet United. The IGF 2021 hybrid process, develops around the issue areas and features a preparatory and engagement phase which includes build-up sessions on the IGF 2021’s issue areas, development of the intersessional work as well as a series of capacity development … Read more
Codes and Coalitions: Path to Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence?
By Smriti Parsheera Check the full article, originally published on “Digital Debates: CyFy Journals 2021”.
Webinar (in portuguese): Segurança Cibernética e a Cooperação internacional do brasil
A inclusão digital segura é um grande desafio para todos os países, especialmente na recuperação do pós-covid 19. O Brasil vem atuando em diversos fóruns internacionais que visam a cooperação e o compartilhamento de regulamentações e práticas nacionais. O evento pretende reunir especialistas e autoridades governamentais para discutir alguns dos aspectos especialmente relacionados à segurança … Read more
China’s new platform guidelines
Translation By Ian Brown (CyberBRICS Visiting Professor) and Douwe Korff Just-published draft guidelines for consultation from China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), translated by Microsoft. Guide to classification and grading of Internet platforms (Draft for comments) First, the purpose of the guide In order to better promote the healthy development of China’s platform economic norms, protect … Read more
Data architectures in the BRICS countries
November 05, 20216:00 PM—7:30 PM IST (UTC+05:30)Zoom Webinar At the 13th BRICS Summit hosted by India in September 2021, the five BRICS members—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—reiterated their commitment to prioritize the effective and efficient use of technology and data for development. They agreed to encourage further cooperation on these fronts, including by … Read more
Digital Silk Road and its role in the China-Brazil Relation
This post provides a report of the webinar “Digital Silk Road as a promoter of closer people to people ties” that took place on October 22 as part of the 4th Seminar Brazil-China Dialogue. Sofia Chang, CyberBRICS researcher at CTS-FGV, moderated the session, joined by Fred Arruda (C.E.S.A.R. institute), Shen Yi (Fudan University), Lin Baihe (China Mobile International Brazil) and In Hsieh (Chinnovation).
Non-official Translation of the Brazilian Artificial Intelligence Bill, n. 21/2020
This is a non-official translation of the bill establishing foundations, principles and guidelines for AI in Brazil prepared by the CyberBRICS team. The original text in Portuguese, alongside more information on the bill and its processing in the Brazilian Congress, can be found at the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies’ website. The bill was approved in Congress and currently awaits a vote in the Senate.
4th Seminar Brazil-China Dialogue “Belt and Road & Brazil: Rules and Coordination”
From 18 to 22 October, Fundação Getulio Vargas’ Rio de Janeiro Law School will host its 4th Seminar Brazil-China Dialogue “Belt and Road & Brazil: Rules and Coordination”. The event will aim at deepening the discussions on the New Silk Road and mapping the relations between China and Brazil. The event will count with the participation … Read more
Digital Competition Policy Developments in Key Jurisdictions
Written by Ian Brown (CyberBRICS Visiting Professor)
PrivacyNama 2021: CyberBRICS Panel on “Impact of privacy legislation on the openness of the Internet”
We are getting ready for the first edition of MediaNama’s flagship conference, PrivacyNama 2021. Split over two days, October 6 and 7, we have a stellar lineup of International and Indian speakers, including Data Protection Commissioners and Chief Privacy Officers. We’ll focus on the following key themes related to privacy and global data governance issues: Privacy … Read more
The Role of Think Tanks in the Digital Era: The CyberBRICS Example
Below the transcripts of Prof Luca Belli’s intervention at the International High-level Think Tank Forum of the World Internet Conference, Wuzhen Summit. Good morning to all participants and organisers and many thanksfor having invited me to be a speaker at this important session of the World Internet Conference 2021. It is a great honour for … Read more
Cybersecurity Convergence in the BRICS Countries
By Luca Belli The thirteenth BRICS Summit took place on 9 September 2021 and cybersecurity featured prominently amongst the priorities identified by BRICS leaders. The BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – are explicitly advocating for enhanced cooperation on cybersecurity issues, both at the international and intra-BRICS level. The facility with which cooperation … Read more
WIC Wuzhen Summit: High-Level Think Tank Forum
The 2021 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit is scheduled to take place from 26 to 28, September 2021 in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province. Themed as “Towards a New Era of Digital Civilization – Building a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace,” the Wuzhen Summit will be held both online and offline this year. The International High-level … Read more
Call for Applications | CyberBRICS Fellowship Programme 2022
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Fellows in Rio CyberBRICS Fellowship Programme Hosted by FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School – FGV DIREITO RIO Deadline for applications: 10 November 2021 Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) is a world-renowned institution of research and quality education. In 2018, FGV was deemed as one of the top 10 think tanks in the … Read more
The Way the Cookie Crumbles: The Future of Cookie Regulation in India
By Sohini Banerjee and KS Roshan Menon Despite their innocuous associations, internet cookies symbolise the power imbalance inherent on the internet. Moreover, they throw up significant privacy concerns that lie at the heart of our digital economy. Recently, European privacy group None of Your Business (‘NOYB’) developed a system to identify websites with unsatisfactory use … Read more
At the intersection of AI and data protection law: automated decision-making rules, a global perspective (CPDP latAm Panel)
By Katerina Demetzou On Thursday, 15th of July 2021, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) organised during the CPDP LatAm Conference a panel titled ‘At the Intersection of AI and Data Protection law: Automated Decision Making Rules, a Global Perspective’. The aim of the Panel was to explore how existing data protection laws around the world apply to profiling … Read more
Pegasus: O cavalo de Tróia da segurança cibernética
Programas como este também são conhecidos como malware – instalam-se no dispositivo do alvo e conseguem monitorar atividades ou promover alterações no funcionamento, muitas vezes sem deixar vestígio. By Yasmin Curzi de Mendonça, Julia Iunes Monteiro, Walter Britto Gaspar e Kaline Santos Desenvolvido pela empresa israelense de cibersegurança NSO Group, o spyware “Pegasus” tem sido … Read more
SA’s ICT sector urgently needs a backbone
By Charley Lewis Payoffs from huge investment required may be slow in coming, but the benefits are undoubtedly worth it The ICT sector is not an overall employment creator on its own, barring a few niche areas. Rather, it acts to displace jobs, shifting the profile of employment away from low-skilled, information-sparse jobs that are … Read more
BRICS Data Protection and Digital Sovereignty Roundtable
The BRICS Data Protection and Digital Sovereignty Conference will take place on 15 July 2021, at 15h/3PM (BRT). The Summit will take place entirely online, during CPDP LatAm which is the Latin-American edition of the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) conference. Check the full program here. This session will discuss some of the studies submitted to the CyberBRICS call for … Read more
“Políticas Digitais no Brasil: Acesso à Internet, Proteção de Dados e Regulação” EBook
Organizado por Luca Belli e Bruno Ramos Este volume é o resultado de uma parceria entre a Escola de Direito da Fundação Getulio Vargas do Rio de Janeiro (FGV DIREITO RIO) e a União Internacional das Telecomunicações (UIT). As reflexões incluídas neste livro foram desenvolvidas por servidores públicos, que participaram do Curso de Políticas Digitais, … Read more
Accountability and Transparency in practice: necessary improvements to the 2630/2020 Bill
By Yasmin Curzi de Mendonça, Clara Leitão e Almeida, Henrique Torres, Leandro Rabelo e Raphael Santana Following international trends in digital platform regulation – especially in online content moderation – legislative proposals have emerged in Brazil seeking to increase platforms’ accountability and guarantee more rights for the users. The Bill No. 2,630/2020, Platform Accountability and … Read more
The current state of the Draft Bill to counter Fake News in Brazil
By Julia Iunes and Natália Macedo The current state of the Draft Bill to implement the “Law on Liberty, Responsibility and Transparency for the Internet” in Brazil: It is essential to improve the procedural duties of digital platforms, while respecting the liability regime adopted by the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet (Marco Civil … Read more
Legal Intersections between the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA) and the Cyber Crimes Act 19 of 2020
By Sizwe Snail The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) describes new ways in which we introduce and use technology into our societies (e.g. the use of cyber systems, artificial intelligence (AI) and nanotechnology). The increased internet activity on social networks, e-governance and commercial services, and the Internet of Things (IOT) has amplified the vulnerability of both … Read more
Second EU-Brazil Conference on Digital Economy and Innovation
At the time of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU, the “Second EU-Brazil Conference on Digital Economy and Innovation: Connectivity and New Digital Infrastructures” aims at identifying areas for stakeholder cooperation between the EU and Brazil, regarding digital trade and emerging technologies. Participants will explore key issues such as new digital infrastructures, 5G, the Internet of Things and its applications, … Read more
Cyber resilience in Indian Financial Services is the Need of the Hour
By Sohini Banerjee and K.S. Roshan Menon Abstract The World Economic Forum’s 2021 report on global risks featured cyber threats as among the most significant risks to society and the economy. At the outset, it is worth noting two key factors at play. First, the financial services sector has been a prime target for threat … Read more
Cybercrimes Act, South Africa
South Africa has just published its Cybercrimes Act covering a number of crimes, such as unlawful access, interception of data, interference with data or computer program and others. Read the preamble below and download the full text here or by clicking the button at the bottom. ACT To create offences which have a bearing on … Read more
Innovation entanglement at three South African tech hubs
By Lucienne Abrahams Abstract This study explores innovation modalities at three South African tech hubs: Bandwidth Barn Khayelitsha and Workshop 17 in Cape Town, and the Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct in Johannesburg. The study finds that tech start-ups’ ability to scale is generally enhanced by their participation in the hubs. Furthermore, it is found that … Read more
Digital Transformation and Cybersecurity in the BRICS Countries
May 14th | 10h – 12h (BRT) This upcoming webinar will bring together guest speakers and CyberBRICS scholars and fellows to debate the most recent developments in Digital Transformation and Cybersecurity in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries. If you’d like to check out past CyberBRICS webinars, take a look at our YouTube channel. The … Read more
Artificial Intelligence in Brazil still needs a strategy
By Walter B. Gaspar and Yasmin Curzi de Mendonça, Researchers at CTS/FGV Law School This is an abridged version. Download a full version of this analysis report here. Anyone who takes the time to read the recently published Brazilian Artificial Intelligence Strategy (EBIA) will not be able to get a very concrete idea of what … Read more
The right to be forgotten is not compatible with the Brazilian Constitution. Or is it?
By Luca Belli The Brazilian Supreme Federal Court, or “STF” in its Brazilian acronym, recently took a landmark decision concerning the right to be forgotten (RTBF), finding that it is incompatible with the Brazilian Constitution. This attracted international attention to Brazil for a topic quite distant than the sadly frequent environmental, health, and political crises. … Read more
Russia: New Law requires express consent for making personal data available to the public and for any subsequent dissemination
By Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna and Regina Iminova Amendments to the Russian general data protection law (Federal Law No. 152-FZ on Personal Data) adopted at the end of 2020 enter into force today (Monday, March 1st), with some of them having the effective date postponed until July 1st. The changes are part of a legislative package that is … Read more
The Digital State Conference / Conférence L’État Digital
Conférence en ligne organisée par le Centre de droit public comparé de l’Université Paris 2 et le Centre de Technologie et Société de l’École de Droit de la Fondation Getulio Vargas * Interventions données en anglais [times are in GMT+1] Lundi 22 mars 13h00 | Ouverture: Sérgio Guerra, Doyen de l’École de Droit de Fondation Getulio … Read more
First EU-Brazil Conference on Digital Economy and Innovation
Watch the full event recording: At the time of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU, the webinar aims at identifying areas for cooperation between the EU and Brazil, regarding digital trade and emerging technologies. Participants will explore key issues such as new digital infrastructures, 5G, cybersecurity, personal data protection, data-driven technologies, the … Read more
Cybersecurity and Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries Webinar
This webinar explored some key features of the Cybersecurity frameworks of the BRICS countries, their visions of digital sovereignty and the role of the BRICS grouping in fostering an alternative way of tackling such issues. The webinar also were the occasion to launch the book “CyberBRICS: Cybersecurity Regulations in the BRICS Countries” (Springer-Nature, 2021), which … Read more
Notes From a Foreign Field: The European Court of Human Rights on Russia’s Website Blocking
By Gurshabad Grover and Anna Liz Thomas From PUBG to TikTok, online services are regularly blocked in India under an opaque censorship regime flowing from section 69A of the Information Technology (IT) Act. Russia happens to have a very similar online content blocking regime, parts and processes of which were recently challenged in the European … Read more
WhatsApp’s New Rules: Time to Recognize the Real Cost of “Free” Apps
By Luca Belli and Nicolo Zingales Recently, WhatsApp pushed an in-app notification requesting users to accept its new privacy policy by February 8, 2021. Before publicly changing its position and postponing the deadline to May 15 in reaction to public backlash, the company announced that anyone who did not accept the new rules would have … Read more
The largest personal data leakage in Brazilian history
Why the rest of the world should be worried, and think hard about how to create a data protection culture. By Luca Belli In Brazil, like in most all low-income countries with relevant population, enormous personal databases are created with little or very poor attention paid to cybersecurity and data protection concerns. On 20 January, the largest … Read more
A conversation on AI activism
By Smriti Parsheera and Sarayu Natarajan In the latest edition of the ACM Interactions Magazine, CyberBRICS Fellow Smriti Parsheera and Sarayu Natarajan, Founder of Aapti Institute, bring up some conceptual and practical concerns for AI activism, particularly from an Indian perspective. They reason that despite its ‘artificial’ nature, AI happens to be a deeply human subject with humans … Read more
Protected: CyberBRICS at the 2021 CPDP Conference
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Municipal Data Governance: An Analysis of Brazilian and European Practices
By Luca Belli, Danilo Doneda Abstract* Over the last decade, the “Smart City” formula has become a true marketing mantra, gaining momentum not only in the business environment, but also in academic circles and among policymakers. The formula is utilised to describe cities that, on the one hand, are increasingly penetrated and ubiquitously monitored by information and … Read more
Concepts of the digital society: Cybersecurity
By Michael Veale and Ian Brown Abstract Cybersecurity covers the broad range of technical and social issues that must be considered to protect networked information systems. The importance of the concept has increased as so many government, business, and day-to-day activities globally have moved online. It has been increasingly referred to in both academic and mainstream publications … Read more
BRICS Digital Policies: Digital Governance Webinar
The BRICS Digital Policies Update brings together CyberBRICS scholars and fellows to debate the most recent updates on Digital Policies in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries.This third edition of the update will revolve around digital governance following three recent and important events – the United Nations Internet Governance Forum, the … Read more
Resumo do CyberBRICS no Internet Governance Forum 2020
A 15ª edição do Encontro Anual do Internet Governance Forum, organizado pela ONU, teve seu início na última semana. Por conta da pandemia de COVID-19, o evento está ocorrendo de forma totalmente on-line, desenvolvendo-se em torno de quatro nichos principais: dados, meio ambiente, inclusão e confiança. Os pré-eventos do IGF 2020, incluindo sessões para iniciantes, … Read more
Internet Governance Forum Summary 2020
In early November, the 15th edition of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF), took place entirely online, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The IGF agenda was structured around four main themes: data, environment, inclusion and trust. The CyberBRICS team members participated to the development of two outcome documents of the IGF 2020 and spoke … Read more
Data Protection in the BRICS Countries: Enhanced Cooperation and Convergence towards Legal Interoperability
By Luca Belli This paper stems from the research elaborated by CyberBRICS project, which is the first attempt to produce comparative analyses of digital policies in the BRICS countries – namely, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The project is hosted by Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School, Rio de Janeiro, and developed in … Read more
[Call for Papers] Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries: Data, Infrastructure, and Services
Call for Papers Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries: Data, Infrastructure, and Services Background on the CyberBRICS Project: The CyberBRICS project has a triple aim: to map existing regulations; to identify best practices; and develop policy suggestions in the areas of cybersecurity governance, Internet access and digitalisation of public services in the BRICS countries (Brazil, … Read more
“The Value of Internet Openness in Times of Crisis” eBook
This volume explores “The Value of Internet Openness in Times of Crisis” and is the official outcome of the Coalitions on Net Neutrality and on Community Connectivity of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum. This work stems from the consideration that the COVID-19 pandemic has harshly highlighted the fundamental importance of Internet access, and the … Read more
A extensão do prazo de patentes e o combate à Covid-19
A infeliz interseção entre uma crise aguda e uma estrutura desequilibrada Publicado originalmente no Jota Por Alan Rossi Silva, Walter Britto Gaspar e Pedro Villardi Depois de meses de pandemia, já não há qualquer dúvida de que a Covid-19 pode ser considerada a maior crise sanitária do último século. Mesmo com todos os problemas de … Read more
Report of the Presidential Commission on the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Published by The Presidency, Republic of South Africa Foreword We are extremely proud of the tremendous strides South Africa has made over the past twenty-five years in the post-apartheid era. We have overcome many challenges through the enduring and innovative South African spirit. Now, we are facing a global phenomenon known as the Fourth Industrial … Read more
Internet Commons Forum 2020
The Internet Commons Forum will take place during the UN Internet Governance Forum, on Wednesday, 4 November, 2020, from 16:00 to 17:40 (UTC). To participate, please register to the UN Internet Governance Forum and add the ICF to your personal calendar using the link on the top right corner of this page. The Internet Commons Forum (ICF) is jointly organised by FGV, … Read more
CyberBRICS at IGF 2020
The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be hosted by the United Nations, under the overarching theme Internet for human resilience and solidarity. Due to the pandemic, the full event will take place online. The programme develops around the four main thematic tracks: (1) Data; (2) Environment; (3) Inclusion; (4) Trust. … Read more
“CyberBRICS: Cybersecurity Regulations in the BRICS Countries” Full eBook
This book stems from the CyberBRICS project, which is the first initiative to develop a comparative analysis of the digital policies and regulations of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries. Given the complexity of digital policies in general and cybersecurity in particular – not to mention the specificities of BRICS countries … Read more
BRICS Digital Policies: Data Governance Update Webinar
The BRICS Digital Policies webinar is organized by the CyberBRICS project (www.cyberbrics.info). It brings together CyberBRICS Associate Scholars and Research Fellows to discuss relevant developments regarding digital policies in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries. The project analyses in particular the areas of cybersecurity, data protection, Internet access and digital infrastructures, … Read more
“COVID-19 Global Insights” e-book
Disponibilizamos o e-book “COVID-19 Global Insights” completo para download. O livro tem como coordenador Claudio Lucena (CyberBRICS Associated Scholar) e conta com 28 capítulos divididos em duas partes: a primeira fala sobre as políticas digitais e coronavírus em um espectro global; a segunda, foca nas questões de privacidade e proteção de dados no Brasil durante … Read more
South African use of technology during COVID-19
By Varsha Sewlal Introduction The scale of the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need to act expediently to contain the spread of the virus. Most governments have resorted to utilising technology driven solutions such as location tools on android and smart phones, cell phone tower signals, global position systems, Wi-Fi signals and Bluetooth technology. Contact … Read more
The technical components of interoperability as a tool for competition regulation
By Ian Brown Abstract The first paper in this series, Interoperability as a tool for competition regulation, focused on policy issues. This second paper looks at the technical details and requirements of interoperability in practice. The third paper will analyse the impact of interoperability on phenomena such as disinformation and privacy (preliminarily covered in the … Read more
United Nations Internet Governance Forum Webinar
IGF intersessional work now and in the future: Best Practice Forums and Dynamic Coalitions. On September 23, at 12:00 (Universal Time UTC), will happen the United Nations Internet Governance Forum Webinar. Our Director Professor Luca Belli will join the debate on “IGF Strategy and strengthening in 2020”. You’re invited to join the Zoom meeting: https://intgovforum.zoom.us/j/99179888913 … Read more
Data sovereignty, of whom? Limits and suitability of sovereignty frameworks for data in India
By Anja Kovacs and Nayantara Ranganathan Abstract: Sovereignty is seeing renewed relevance in the age of data in India as it has become the framework of choice in a number of data governance proposals by the Indian government. To understand the scope, import and consequences of these reassertions of sovereignty, however, it is important to unpack … Read more
Brazil: Digital Policies during COVID-19 times
By Carolina Telles When the quarantine began in the Brazilian states, between the third and the fourth week of March, the country had only 2,271 cases and 47 deaths. Five months later, the total number of cases is more than 1000 times higher: the country already exceeds 4 million cases and is the third with … Read more
Políticas Digitais em tempos de COVID-19 – Brasil
Por Carolina Telles Quando a quarentena foi iniciada nos estados brasileiros, entre a terceira e a quarta semana de março, o país contava com apenas 2.271 casos e 47 mortes. Cinco meses depois, o total de casos já é mais de 1000 vezes maior: o país ultrapassou os 4 milhões casos e é o terceiro … Read more
Cybersecurity Perspectives in the Current and the Post-Pandemic Context Webinar
On August 25, the CyberSecurity Perspectives in the Current and in the Post-Pandemic Context Webinar took place, organized by IPEA (Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, in portuguese). The event was attended by Luca Belli (CyberBRICS Coordinator). The material used in the presentation will be available at the end of this publication. Check the complete schedule:August … Read more
Webinar Perspectivas da Segurança Cibernética no Contexto Atual e na Pós-pandemia
No dia 25 de agosto, ocorreu o Webinar Perspectivas da Segurança Cibernética no Contexto Atual e na Pós-pandemia, organizado pelo IPEA (Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada). O evento contou com a participação de Luca Belli (Coordenador CyberBRICS). O material utilizado na apresentação estará disponibilizado ao final dessa publicação. Confira a programação completa: 25/08, 15h às … Read more
BRICS Digital Policies Webinar
On September 10th at 10AM (GMT-3 / Rio Time), the first BRICS Digital Policies Webinar will take place on-line. The main topics discussed by participants include cybersecurity, fake news, digital yuan, LGPD (Brazilian General Data Protection Regulation).The event will be attended by CyberBRICS Coordinator Luca Belli and CyberBRICS Fellows Aaron Martin, Larissa Magalhães, Senka Hadzic, … Read more
Analysis of India’s Aarogya Setu app
By Smriti Parsheera, Nikhil Narendran, Swati Muthukumar and Aparajita Lath[1] Aarogya Setu, which translates to mean ‘health bridge’, is a mobile application that was launched by the Indian government in April, 2020. The purpose of the app is to carry out self assessment of one’s health status, contact tracing and provide health related information. The … Read more
Brazilian Data Protection under Covid-19: Legal Certainty is the Main Casualty
By Luca Belli and Nicolo Zingales On 14 August 2018, Brazil adopted its new General Data Protection Law, n° 13.709/2018, better known under its Portuguese acronym “LGPD” (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais). Hailed as a legislative milestone for Brazil, the law was predestined to stir controversy since its approval. The very ample margin for … Read more
Interoperability as a tool for competition regulation
By Ian Brown Abstract This briefing paper on interoperability as a pro-competition policy tool is based on a synthesis of recent comprehensive policy reviews of digital competition in major economies, and related academic literature, focusing on areas of emerging consensus while noting important disagreements. It draws particularly on the Vestager, Furman and Stigler reviews and … Read more
Seminário On-line Sobre Cooperação Internacional Contra Covid-19
No dia 21 de julho ocorreu o Seminário Webinar sobre Cooperação Internacional Contra Covid-19, que contou com as participações de Luca Belli (Diretor do CyberBRICS e Professor da da FGV Direito Rio), Sérgio Gusmão Suchodolski (Presidente do Banco de Desenvolvimento de Minas Gerais e Membro do Board do CyberBRICS), Thomas Law (Presidente da Ibrachina), Cassio … Read more
A Brief Prehistory of China’s Social Credit System
By Min Jiang University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte & CyberBRICS Visiting Professor Abstract This article situates China’s social credit system (SCS) in a historical perspective by exploring its antecedents. The historical roots of the SCS can be found in personnel archives for officials during imperial times, the Dang’an (personnel dossier) system under Communist … Read more
Remove misinformation, but be transparent, please!
By Torsha Sarkar Introduction We are living through, to put it mildly, strange times. The ongoing pandemic has pinballed into a humanitarian crisis, revealing and deepening the severe class inequalities that exist today. The crisis has been exacerbated by an ‘infodemic’, as the World Health Organization (WHO) notes: a massive abundance of information – occasionally … Read more
A Landmark Ruling in Brazil: Paving the Way for Considering Data Protection as an Autonomous Fundamental Right
By Bruno Ricardo Bioni and Renato Leite Monteiro A historic ruling of the Brazilian Supreme Court from May 07, 2020 describes the right to data protection as an autonomous right stemming from the Brazilian Constitution. By a significant majority, 10 votes to 1, the Court halted the effectiveness of the Presidential Executive Order (MP[1] 954/2020) that mandated … Read more
[BigDataSur-COVID] A pandemia e a nova ordem sociodigital no Sul Global: o caso de São Paulo
Also available in English O que acontece quando a cidade digital encontra desastres e pandemias em grande escala como o COVID-19? Este artigo analisa o caso de São Paulo, Brasil, para ilustrar como a pandemia contribui para enfatizar um amplo espectro de desigualdades. Na maior metrópole da América Latina, a população experimenta com uma forte disparidade de … Read more
[BigDataSur-COVID] The pandemic and the new socio-digital order in the Global South: the case of São Paulo
What happens when the digital city encounters large-scale disasters and pandemics like COVID-19? This article analyzes the case of São Paulo, Brazil, to illustrate how the pandemic contributes to emphasize a broad spectrum of inequalities. In the largest metropolis in Latin America, the population lives with a strong disparity of socioeconomic and cultural conditions, at … Read more
Cybercrime regulation across BRICS countries
A comparative interactive platform developed by CyberBRICS.
DataGovHub Webinar: What Can we Learn From Brazil and China’s Approach to Personal Data Protection?
The Digital Trade & Data Governance Hub’s fifth webinar took place on 15 May 2020 and featured Luca Belli (Ph.D.) Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he heads the CyberBRICS project and Min Jiang (Ph.D.) Associate Professor of Communication at UNC Charlotte, … Read more
Russia during COVID-19: information warfare, digital passes and digital protest
By Anna Orlova and Andrey Shcherbovich Since March 2020, Russia has been suspected of information warfare, that is, proactive state propaganda and dissemination of the so-called “fake news”, in response to the coronavirus crisis. This information war aims to diminish and downplay the current state of coronavirus pandemic in Russia. Russia and China, in particular, were … Read more
Innovative spectrum approaches for Internet Openness in South Africa
By Dr Senka Hadzic, Pablo Aguera e Dr Alison Gillwald South Africa’s failure to release high demand spectrum for over a decade has been cited by operators and analysts not only as a factor contributing to the high cost of mobile data in the country, as operators deploy 4G services in suboptimal bands, but also as a … Read more
Consumer protection across BRICS countries
A comparative interactive platform developed by CyberBRICS.
Net neutrality in India: ensuring openness amidst the crisis
By Smriti Parsheera In the previous post we traced India’s journey down the net neutrality road, starting from the framing of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)’s discriminatory tariff regulation in 2016 to the present debate on creation of an advisory multi-stakeholder body. Our focus here is to discuss the ways in India’s net neutrality rules … Read more
Net neutrality in India: from rules to enforcement
By Smriti Parsheera Policymakers in India have acknowledged that non-discriminatory treatment of content, or, in other words, maintenance of network neutrality, constitutes an essential feature of having an open Internet. This post focuses on the development of India’s net neutrality framework, tracing the steps that have been taken so far and the questions that lie … Read more
COVID-19 Makes Internet Access and Openness an Absolute Priority
By Luca Belli The COVID-19 pandemic has harshly highlighted the fundamental importance of Internet access, and the total exclusion that the unconnected face in times of crises. For some of us, our new routine comprises of e-learning, telemedicine, online meetings, and using e-commerce and delivery apps for our essentials. This is only possible if we … Read more
How the Kerala-Sprinklr controversy represents the gaps in India’s Data Protection Framework
By Aman Nair Introduction As COVID-19 continues to be the primary problem facing the globe, there has been a scramble among policymakers to try and utilise the latest technology in any way possible so as to contain the pandemic. Contact tracing and data analysis have become the norm, with apps to that effectbeing implemented world … Read more
A Covid-19 torna o acesso à Internet um direito fundamental
Por Luca Belli Exclusão social para os desconectados e conjuntura perfeita de fake news para os parcialmente conectados. Teletrabalho em home office, aulas online, entregas por meio de aplicativos, notícias e diversões em streaming. Por causa da pandemia de Covid-19, essa se tornou nossa nova rotina. Sob a condição de se ter acesso à Internet. … Read more
Data protection frameworks emerging in the BRICS countries
By Luca Belli The members of the so-called BRICS grouping (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have realized that digital transformation is an essential element for the future of their economies and societies. In this perspective, data protection becomes a key priority to foster thriving digital environments, where individuals enjoy protections and businesses benefit from legal … Read more
‘Digital sovereignty’: can Russia cut off its Internet from the rest of the world?
By Francesca Musiani, Benjamin Loveluck, Françoise Daucé, Ksenia Ermoshina Texte intégral en française The Internet infrastructure is based on the principle of the internationalisation of equipment and data and information flows. Elements of the Internet with a geographic location in national territories need physical and information resources hosted in other territories to be able to … Read more
Proteção de dados à deriva: o difícil equilíbrio entre controle e privacidade
By Walter Gaspar Levantamento recente identificou novas medidas de rastreamento digital em 20 países após o início da pandemia de covid-19. A implementação de soluções tecnológicas para o combate ao seu avanço tem colocado em evidência uma controvérsia aguda envolvendo controle estatal, privacidade e proteção de dados. Não que o assunto não fosse discutido antes. Mas, … Read more
Exploring Multistakeholder Internet Governance: Towards the Identification of a Model Advisory Body on Internet Policy
By Luca Belli, Diego Canabarro, Judith Herzog, Richard Hill, Carlos A. Afonso, and Stefano Trumpy Introduction Over the past thirty years, the Internet has penetrated all aspects of our lives and, as connected individuals, we are now reliant on connectivity for an increasing number of aspects of our daily routine. The preservation of Internet’s essential … Read more
Why should we care about takedown timeframes?
By Torsha Sarkar (CyberBRICS Associated Scholar) Introduction Since the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) proposed the draft amendments to the intermediary liability guidelines in December of 2018, speculations regarding their potential effects have been numerous. These have included, mapping the requirement of traceability of originators vis-a-vis chilling effect on free speech online, or … Read more
Migrating Servers, Elusive Users: Reconfigurations of the Russian Internet in the Post-Snowden
By Ksenia Ermoshina and Francesca Musiani (CyberBRICS Associated Scholar) Abstract In response to the growing censorship of their national Internet, Russian users, content producers and service providers have developed several resistance tactics. This paper analyzes these tactics with particular attention paid to their materiality. It first addresses the different levels of Internet “governance by infrastructure” … Read more
Antitrust and Restrictions on Privacy in the Digital Economy
By Nicholas Economides and Ioannis Lianos (CyberBRICS Associated Scholar) Abstract We present a model of a market failure based on a requirement provision by digital platforms in the acquisition of personal information from users of other products/services. We establish the economic harm from the market failure and the requirement using traditional antitrust methodology. Eliminating the … Read more
CyberBRICS, focus on Cybersecurity
By Luca Belli Originally published by China Today (October/November 2019 edition)
Content takedown and users’ rights
By Gurshabad Grover and Torsha Sarkar AST year, several Jio users from different states reported that sites like Indian Kanoon, Reddit and Telegram were inaccessible through their connections. While attempting to access the website, the users were presented with a notice that the websites were blocked on orders from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). When contacted by the … Read more
CPDP 2020: watch the session “Data Protection Regulators in the BRICS”
From the 22nd to the 24th of January, the 13th Conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) took place in Brussels, Belgium. The CPDP is a non-profit platform was founded in 2007 by research groups from the Vrije University in Brussels, the University of Namur and the University of Tilburg. As a world-leading multidisciplinary … Read more
CPDP 2020: confira a sessão “Data Protection Regulators in the BRICS”
Entre os dias 22 e 24 de janeiro, ocorreu a 13ª Computers, Privacy e Data Protection conference (CPDP) em Bruxelas, na Bélgica. A CPDP é uma plataforma sem fins lucrativos fundada originalmente em 2007 por grupos de pesquisa da Universidade Vrije de Bruxelas, da Universidade de Namur e da Universidade de Tilburg. A conferência tem … Read more
Democracy Under The Influence: Paradigms of State Responsibility for Cyber Influence Operations on Elections
By Barrie Sander Abstract Ever since allegations arose of Russian meddling in the 2016 United States presidential election, cyber influence operations have garnered worldwide attention. This article examines the different options available under international law for holding States responsible for cyber influence operations on elections. To this end, the article first elaborates a typology of … Read more
[POSTPONED] CPDP LatAm 2020
CPDP LatAm is the Latin-American platform to discuss privacy, data protection and technology. It includes the Latin-American edition of Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) conference, the MyData conference, and Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC). Due to the ongoing Covid19 pandemic, the 1st CPDP Latam has been postponed and will take place on June 2021 in Rio de … Read more
Platform Values: Conflicting Rights, AI & Tax Avoidance
Edited by Luca Belli and Nicolo Zingales 2019 outcome of the IGF Coalition on Platform Responsibility. Presented at the 14th United Nations Internet Governance Forum. 27 November 2019, Berlin. Consolidated and unedited version of the special issue of the Computer Law and Security Review
The Brazilian General Data Protection Law (LGPD) – Unofficial English Version
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The beginnings of the Great Firewall of India?
By Nikhil Pahwa The unintended consequence of the Supreme Court’s order on Internet Shutdowns in Kashmir — where it put down accountability norms for Internet shutdowns, and said that some essential websites should be accessible, is that it has given rise to the creation of the Great Indian Firewall: filters that control what users can and cannot … Read more
Regulatory governance under the PDP Bill: a powerful ship with an unchecked captain?
By Smriti Parsheera “I prefer to sail in a bad ship with a good captain rather than sail in a good ship with a bad captain.”— Mehmet Murat ildan If the ship here is a metaphor for the rights and obligations offered by the draft Personal Data Protection Bill (PDP Bill) and the Data Protection … Read more
CyberBRICS Session at 13th CPDP Conference
Data Protection Regulations in the BRICS On 23 January, at 16:00 Brussels time, the CyberBRICS project will organize the session Data Protection Regulations in the BRICS, at the Computer Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) conference. The session will offer the occasion to release the BRICS Data Protection Map, together with pre-book-launch brochure of CyberBRICS: Mapping … Read more
Don’t believe the hype? Recent 3D printing developments for law and society
By Angela Daly Introduction: This chapter is intended as a follow-up to my monograph, Socio-Legal Aspects of the 3D Printing Revolution, published in mid-2016.1 Much of the research and writing for that work had been completed by late 2015 and so I was unable to take account of certain developments subsequent to that time, which, … Read more
4IR in South Africa is too important to remain the domain of the elite
By Alison Gillwald The digital inequality paradox is arguably the biggest policy challenge for SA, and, as yet, it is not addressed through the discourse of 4IR Since Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) announcement in 2016 of the impending Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in his book of the same title, SA has … Read more
[Entrevista] Leilão do 5G precisa de mais debate, diz Luca Belli
Não precisa haver pressa para definir logo o edital do leilão do 5G, avalia o doutor em Direito Público Luca Belli, professor de Governança e Regulação da Internet da FGV Direito Rio. Na opinião dele, não é negativo o adiamento aprovado em reunião tensa do Conselho Diretor da Anatel na quinta-feira passada, 12. Isso porque, … Read more
Internet Governance Forum 2019 Summary
On November 25-29, the Internet Governance Forum 2019 was held in Berlin, Germany, bringing together multiple stakeholders to discuss public policies and digital rights. Professor Luca Belli, coordinator of CyberBRICS Project, Ivar Hartmann, coordinator at Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade (CTS/FGV) and Yasmin Curzi, researcher at CTS/FGV attended several sessions, sharing their opinions and discussing the latest results of their research. The CyberBRICS Twitter Account (@BricsCyber) was recognised as one … Read more
China-Brazil Internet Governance Seminar
On December 10th, FGV Law School (DIREITO RIO) and the CyberBRICS project organized the first “China-Brazil Internet Governance Seminar” in partnership with the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and the Chinese Academy of Cyberspace Studies (CACS). The event was attended by the Chinese Vice Minister of Cyberspace, Mr. Sheng Ronghua, and the chairman of the … Read more
Seminário China-Brasil de Governança da Internet
No dia 10 de dezembro, foi realizado na FGV Direito Rio o Seminário China-Brasil de Governança da Internet, em parceria com a Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) e da Chinese Academy of Cyberspace Studies (CACS). O evento, organizado no âmbito do projeto CyberBRICS, contou com a presença de importantes palestrantes, como o vice-ministro chinês de … Read more
Download the exclusive preview of “CyberBRICS: Mapping Cybersecurity frameworks in the BRICS”
CyberBRICS: Mapping Cybersecuity Frameworks in the BRICS This book stems from the CyberBRICS project, which is the first initiative to develop a comparative analysis of the digital policies developed by BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries. BRICS have been chosen as a focus not only because their digital policies are affecting more … Read more
[Evento] Seminário Sino-Brasileiro sobre Governança na Internet
A Escola de Direito da Fundação Getúlio Vargas e o projeto CyberBRICS convidam para o seminário sino-brasileiro sobre governança na Internet, que ocorrerá na terça-feira, dia 10 de dezembro, e será organizado em parceria com a Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) e da Chinese Academy of Cyberspace Studies (CACS). No evento serão abordados temas sobre … Read more
[Event] China-Brazil Internet Governance Seminar
The Rio de Janeiro Law School of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (DIREITO RIO) and CyberBRICS Project invite to the China-Brazil Internet Governance Seminar, organized in partnership with the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and the Chinese Academy of Cyberspace Studies (CACS). The event will take place on Tuesday, December 10th, and will discuss Internet regulation, cybersecurity … Read more
Da forma à substância no direito à proteção de dados pessoais, parte II
Por Walter Britto Gaspar MyData e sistemas centrados no usuário: o fundamento jurídico O MyData é um movimento baseado no ideal de um sistema de intermediação de dados pessoais centrado no usuário. Ser centrado no usuário significa abordar as relações entre o titular dos dados e terceiros sob uma perspectiva de administração do consentimento centrada no ser … Read more
Da forma à substância no direito à proteção de dados pessoais, parte I
Por Walter Britto Gaspar Um laço conecta muitas das aplicações de novas técnicas e tecnologias que vêm transformando profundamente todos os campos da atividade humana: a fundamentação necessária na maior quantidade possível de dados. De redes neurais treinadas para identificar melanomas a partir de centenas de milhares de fotografias a caminhos inovadores de compreensão automatizada de escrita, a … Read more
BRICS countries to build digital sovereignty
By Luca Belli Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are home to 3.2 billion people, 42% of the world’s population. In effect, these countries hold 42% of one of the most valuable resources on the planet: personal data. BRICS countries are not only increasingly aware that they are the main data producers, they also increasingly … Read more
[Event] 3rd BRICS Governance Seminar on Innovative Governance
On Monday, 10/28, the 3rd BRICS Governance Seminar on Innovative Governance for Economic Growth in the New Era was held in Rio de Janeiro. The event, exclusively for 200 guests, was organized by ACCWS (China), FGV Direito Rio and CEM-FGV and was hosted by the Ministry of Economy of Brazil / SECEX and the Ministry … Read more
[Evento] III Seminário do BRICS sobre Governança 2019
Na segunda-feira, dia 28/10, ocorreu no Rio de Janeiro o III Seminário do BRICS sobre Governança, com tema Innovative Governance for Economic Growth in the New Era. O evento, exclusivo para 200 convidados, foi organizado pela ACCWS (China), FGV Direito Rio e o CEM-FGV e teve como anfitriões o Ministério da Economia do Brasil/SECEX e … Read more
[Event] BRICS Think Tank International Symposium
On September 13, 2019, Professor Luca Belli participated to the 2019 BRICS Think Tank International Symposium, organized by the China Council for BRICS Think-tank Cooperation, the Center for BRICS Studies, FDDI, Fudan University and the São Paulo State University. Luca Belli discussed Personal Data Regulations in the BRICS countries, based on the early findings of … Read more
[Event] Internet Commons Forum
The Internet Governance Forum 2019 (IGF) is going to happen in Berlin, Germany, on Nov 25-29, bringing together multiple stakeholders to discuss public policies and digital rights. One of our six sessions will be about the Internet Commons Forum, which is going to happen on the Pre-Event on November 25 at 15:40. The Internet Commons … Read more
Reflecting on Chinese Artificial Intelligence and National Responsible Innovation
By Wei Wang This is a short piece relating to the modern history and current situation of China’s AI policies. It arises from the report co-authored with the colleagues having talked in the CUHK Law Global Governance of AI and Ethics workshop, 20-21 June 2019. But it is also a supplementary piece adding some comments … Read more
Digital Era Competition BRICS Report
Coordinated by Ioannis Lianos and Alexey Ivanov, with contributions by Nicolo Zingales We are happy to present the Draft BRICS academic report on Digital Era Competition Law: A BRICS Perspective. The report engages with one of the most crucial questions of our time, the public governance of the digital economy, in particular focusing on the … Read more
Personal Data in India: anonymise and forget
By Sohini Chatterjee Recent developments have indicated the government’s plan to intensify existing efforts towards an open data ecosystem. Most recently, the Economic Survey 2018-19 has considered the establishment of a central welfare database of citizens to integrate fragmented data about all Indians. For example, such a database may consolidate a citizen’s land title records, … Read more
Call for Applications | CyberBRICS Fellowship Programme
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Fellows in Rio CyberBRICS Fellowship Programme Hosted by FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School – FGV DIREITO RIO Deadline for applications: 10 November 2019 Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) is a world-renowned institution of research and quality education. In 2018, FGV was deemed as one of the top 10 think tanks in the … Read more
5G e IoT: BRICS precisam de cooperação em cibersegurança
Por Luca Belli, Coordenador do Projeto CyberBRICS Texto publicado originalmente no dia 9 de setembro, 2019 no portal Convergência Digital. Os ministros da ciência, tecnologia e telecomunicações do BRICS acabam de destacar, numa Declaração conjunta, o interesse estratégico e o caráter prioritário de parcerias sobre as novas infraestruturas digitais, as tecnologias 5G, a Internet das Coisas … Read more
[Event] 5G and New Digital Infrastructures in the BRICS
The Rio de Janeiro Law School of Fundação Getulio Vargas (DIREITO RIO) and CyberBRICS project invite to the event 5G and New Digital Infrastructures in the BRICS. The meeting brings together members of the government and business sectors, researchers and experts to discuss key challenges and opportunities for the implementation of digital infrastructures, as well … Read more
This privacy law needs public debate
By Amba Kak, lawyer and policy advisor at Mozilla, and CyberBRICS Associated Scholar. Associated Scholar This article was originally published in the print edition of the Times of India on July 30, 2019. The inaugural Parliament session of the government’s second term began with IT Minister RS Prasad proclaiming passing a data protection law as a … Read more
Rethinking the intermediary liability regime in India
By Torsha Sarkar, Policy Officer, Centre for Internet and Society, and CyberBRICS Associated Scholar The author would like to thank Elonnai Hickok and Arindrajit Basu for their feedback. Introduction In December 2018, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“MeitY”) released the Intermediary Liability Guidelines (Amendment) Rules (“the Guidelines”), which would be significantly altering the … Read more
What is the problem with ‘Ethical AI’? An Indian Perspective
By Arindrajit Basu & Pranav MB, lawyers and researchers at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) and CyberBRICS Associated Scholars On 22 May 2019, the OECD member countries adopted the OECD Council Recommendation on Artificial Intelligence. The Principles, meant to provide an “ethical framework” for governing Artificial Intelligence (AI), were the first set of … Read more
Third issue of the CyberBRICS Observatory bulletin
Check out our bimonthly CyberBRICS Observatory bulletin providing updates on digital policy in the BRICS.
Terceira edição do boletim do Observatório CyberBRICS
Confira o boletim bimestral do Observatório CyberBRICS que fornece atualizações sobre políticas digitais no BRICS. |
4IR in SA is too important to remain the domain of the elite
By Alison Gillwald (PhD), Executive Director, Research ICT Africa, CyberBRICS Board Member & Adjunct Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance This opinion piece was first published on on Business Day Live on the 4th of July 2019. Since Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum’s announcement in 2016 of the impending Fourth Industrial … Read more
In South Africa, Privacy and POPI are stress-tested by CCTV and elections
By Sagwadi Mabunda, Frej Thorgren & Jonatan Jakobsson As the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) celebrates its first anniversary, it is fitting to consider some issues concerning data protection and privacy. This post will consider privacy in the context of the South African Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPI) and the issues … Read more
Seminário CyberBRICS: Cybersecurity, Data Protection and The Digital Future of The BRICS
No dia 04/06 realizamos o evento “CyberBRICS: Cybersecurity, Data Protection and The Digital Future of The BRICS”. O evento buscou promover respostas aos desafios relacionados à regulamentação de dados pessoais e à governança de cibersegurança, fornecendo insights valiosos sobre as políticas digitais do BRICS, que possam ser usados por pesquisadores, reguladores e empresas. Foi possível … Read more
Seminar CyberBRICS: Cybersecurity, data protection and the digital future of the BRICS
On June 4, 2019 we held the event “CyberBRICS: Cybersecurity, Data Protection and The Digital Future of The BRICS”. The event sought to promote responses to the challenges related to personal data regulation and cybersecurity governance by providing valuable insights into BRICS digital policies that can be used by researchers, regulators and companies. It was … Read more
U.S. Ban on Huawei: Superpowers’ Insecurities and Nightmares
By Min Jiang (Ph.D.), Associate Professor of Communication, UNC Charlotte | CyberBRICS Fellow What is Huawei? Since 2018, Huawei, the Chinese tech giant, has been caught in the eye of the storm of U.S.-China trade war (Keane for CNet, 2019). Founded in 1987 by its current CEO Ren Zhengfei and headquartered in Shenzhen, China, Huawei, … Read more
Seminar CyberBRICS: Cybersecurity, data protection and the digital future of the BRICS
The Rio de Janeiro Law School of Fundação Getulio Vargas (DIREITO RIO) will host the Seminar CyberBRICS: Cybersecurity, data protection and the digital future of the BRICS. The event aims to provide answers to the challenges related to personal data regulation and cybersecurity governance by providing valuable insights into BRICS digital policies that can be … Read more
Smart cities, personal data and citizens’ rights in Brazil
By Danilo Doneda and Diego Machado (See portuguese version here) Among the various conceptual propositions of smart cities, it becomes increasingly clear that the city “smartness” is not limited to the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for data processing. Broadly speaking, the use of data technologies is the first aspect for the smartness … Read more
Cidades inteligentes, dados pessoais e direitos dos cidadãos no Brasil
Por Danilo Doneda e Diego Machado (Versão em inglês aqui) Dentre as diversas proposições conceituais de cidades inteligentes (smart cities), percebe-se que a “inteligência” (smartness) não se resume ao uso e aplicações de tecnologias da informação e da comunicação para tratamento de dados. Há quem entenda, de forma mais ampla, que o uso das tecnologias … Read more
Second issue of the CyberBRICS Observatory bulletin
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Sovereign Internet Law signed by the President of Russia
By Dr. Andrey Shcherbovich, CyberBRICS fellow and Simon Granberg and Angelo de Carvalho Gomes, FGV students (See russian version here) On 1 May 2019, the Russian President signed the “digital sovereignty law”, which has the purpose to establish autonomous Internet control systems and thereby create the possibility to separate a Russian intranet from the global Internet. … Read more
Закон о «суверенном Интернете» подписан Президентом России
Андрей Щербович, Щербович Андрей Андреевич , исследователь CyberBRICS, Саймон Гранберг и Анжело де Карвальо Гомес, студенты FGV 1 мая 2019 года президент России подписал Закон о «суверенном Интернете», целью которого является создание автономных систем управления Интернетом и тем самым возможное создание отдельной внутренней сети, изолированной от глобальной сети Интернет. Закон вызвал негативный общественный резонанс, так, … Read more
3D Printing and IP Futures: What did we learn from China, India and Russia?
By Angela Daly – Chinese University of Hong Kong Additive manufacturing, better known as ‘3D printing’, is an innovative manufacturing technique which involves the creation of three-dimensional objects using a variety of methods, based on a digital design file containing a 2D blueprint for the final object. In recent years, inexpensive 3D printers using plastics … Read more
Exploring the New Russian Measures against “Fake News” and Online Insults
By Dr. Andrey A. Shcherbovich (See russian version here) Two high-impact laws in the sphere of regulating relations on the Internet were signed by the President of Russia on March 18: the law on “Fake News” and the one on the Inadmissibility of Insulting Authorities Online. On March 18, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed amendments … Read more
Россия принимает новые меры против “фейковых новостей” и онлайн-оскорблений
Щербович Андрей Андреевич, кандидат юридических наук Два резонансных закона в сфере регулирования отношений в Интернете подписаны Президентом России 18 марта: закон о “фейковых новостях” и о запрете оскорбления власти в Интернете. 18 марта Президент России Владимир Путин подписал изменения в ряд законов, под угрозой административного наказания запрещающие распространение в Интернете информации, подрывающей престиж власти, а … Read more
An Instant Analysis of Chinese Electronic Commerce Law
By Prof. Dr. Hong Xue* In China’s New Normal Economy, the Internet and e-commerce are the newpowerhouse of economic development. A sound legal and regulatory environment is essential for sustainable development of e-commerce. On August 31, 2018, the National People’s Congress officially approved and enacted the Electronic Commerce Law of the People’s Republic of China … Read more
Unpacking policy moves for sovereign control of data in India
By Arindrajit Basu, Elonnai Hickok and Aditya Singh Chawla In a new White Paper, researchers from CyberBRICS partner CIS-India explore the issue of Data Sovereignty, mapping the current Indian policy measures for data localization and reflecting on the goals, challenges and implications of such measures. The CIS White Paper on “The Localisation Gambit: Unpacking policy … Read more
Information rights in a data age: insights from the International Conference of Information Commissioners #ICIC2019
By Anri van der Spuy & Alison Gillwald On the plane back from the recent International Conference of Information Commissioners (ICIC), an inflight magazine proudly presents an advertisement for the African Union’s common, electronic, biometric passport. While the passport is reportedly being developed to ‘facilitate free movement of persons across Africa’,[i] the advert neglects to … Read more
First issue of the CyberBRICS Observatory bulletin
Check out our bimonthly CyberBRICS Observatory bulletin providing updates on digital policy in the BRICS.
A emergente estrutura brasileira de proteção de dados
Por Daniel Oppermann Segundo estatísticas do IBGE, cerca de 70% da população brasileira a partir de 10 anos de idade está usando a Internet. Estes 181 milhões de pessoas não estão somente comunicando, trabalhando, estudando, comprando e especialmente se divertindo no ambiente online. Eles também estão deixando dados pessoais, como número de telefone, imagens e … Read more
The Emerging Brazilian Data Protection Framework
By Daniel Oppermann According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics or IBGE (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística), about 70% of Brazilians (starting at the age of 10) are currently using the Internet at least once every three months. These 181 million individuals are not just communicating, working, studying trading and entertaining themselves … Read more
Проект закона об автономной работе российского сегмента Интернета принят Государственной Думой РФ в первом чтении
Щербович Андрей Андреевич, кандидат юридических наук Государственная Дума в первом чтении проняла закон «суверенности» Интернета в России. За документ проголосовали 334 депутата, против – 47. При этом данный законопроект вызывает критику у представителей частного сектора, гражданского общества и даже у Счетной палаты (орган парламентского контроля Российской Федерации), ведь реализация нового законопроекта может потребовать от бюджета … Read more
The Russian bill on Internet Sovereignty adopted by the State Duma in first reading
By Dr. Andrey A. Shcherbovich (See russian version here) On 12 February 2019, the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian Federal Parliament, adopted in the first reading the draft bill on Internet “sovereignty” in Russia. 334 deputies voted in favor and 47 against the document. At the same time, representatives of the private … Read more
CyberBRICS: challenges and opportunities for data protection in the BRICS
BRICS are developing or enacting data protection frameworks that will soon affect almost 50% of the world’s population and almost 40% of existing Internet users, who live in the BRICS. This panel discussion analysed the advancements and challenges regarding the most recent privacy and data protection developments in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and … Read more
CyberBRICS: Building the Next Generation Internet, STEP by Step
This workshop of the UN Internet Governance Forum 2017 was the inception meeting of the CyberBRICS project, gathering key stakeholders, including representatives of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russian Ministry of Telecommunications, to discuss digital policy trends and priorities in the BRICS. Data protection and cybersecurity, which are the current focus of … Read more
Erica Bakonyi

CyberBRICS Researcher. Lawyer and DPO-as-a-service, with experience in projects of compliance with privacy and data protection legislation for the consulting companies “Arquitetura Educacional” and “Macher Tecnologia”. Researcher at FGV Direito Rio, at the Center for Technology and Society (CTS). Mentor in the data protection area (“LGPD and Compliance”) at AB2L. Co-coordinator of MyData BR and Legal Hackers Rio. Master in Public and European International Law from Coimbra University. Specialist in “Tenders and Administrative Contracts”. MBA in Information Security Management (in progress), at Infinet.
Breno Pauli Medeiros
CyberBRICS Researcher. Breno Pauli Medeiros holds a PhD in Military Sciences from the Brazilian Army Command and General Staff College (ECEME), Rio de Janeiro, where he also works as a Post Doctoral Researcher.Breno’s research focus revolves around examining the impacts of cyber power and its multifaceted applications within contemporary policy and institutional frameworks. He has … Read more
Natalia Couto
Natália Couto holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in Regulatory Law from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV Direito Rio). She studied for an LLM in Law, Innovation and Technology at FGV Direito Rio, where she also worked as a teaching assistant. She specializes in contracts and compliance and has a postgraduate degree from the … Read more
Walter B. Gaspar

CyberBRICS Manager. Lawyer, graduated Law at FGV in 2015. Master in Public Health from UERJ (2017), studying the interface between innovation, intellectual property and access to medicines policies in Brazil. Grantee of the Fundación Botín Programme for the Public Interest in Latin America (2013). Researcher in the Fiocruz and Shuttleworth Foundation project on intellectual property and access to medicines (2017). National Coordinator of the NGO Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (2013-2016). Certified Graphic Designer from the Istituto Europeo di Design (2018). Author of “O que é Creative Commons? Novos modelos de direito autoral em um mundo mais criativo“. Currently, researcher in the CyberBRICS project at FGV’s Center for Technology and Society and Ph.D. student at UFRJ.
Anja Kovacs

CyberBRICS Non-resident Fellow.
Dr. Anja Kovacs directs the Internet Democracy Project in India, which works towards an Internet that supports freedom of expression, democracy and social justice, in India and beyond. Her research currently focuses on questions regarding cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy, and regarding freedom of expression, including work on gender, surveillance, bodies and dataveillance and gender and online abuse.
She has also worked as an international consultant on Internet issues, including for the Independent Commission on Multilateralism, the United Nations Development Programme Asia Pacific, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression. She has lectured at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, and Ambedkar University, Delhi, India, as well as having been a Fellow at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, and has conducted extensive fieldwork throughout South Asia. Dr. Kovacs obtained her PhD in Development Studies from the University of East Anglia in the UK.
Amrita Sengupta
Amrita Sengupta is a Research and Programme Lead at the Centre for Internet and Society, India, where she focuses on research at the intersection of technology and society. Her research interests and work lie in the areas of gender and technology, digital cultures, ethics in research methods, digital access, algorithmic biases and tech design, AI … Read more
Senka Hadzic

CyberBRICS Fellow. Dr Senka Hadzic is a Senior Fellow at Research ICT Africa, where she was a Ford/Media Democracy Fund Tech Exchange fellow from 2018-2019 working on alternative spectrum policies to enable small scale operators and community networks. She is also affiliated with the ICT for Development Centre at the University of Cape Town where she was a postdoctoral fellow from 2016-2018. Her expertise is in low cost connectivity solutions in the Global South. In early 2020 she was awarded the Digital Futures fellowship from Hivos to research ownership models and sustainability of community networks. Dr Hadzic completed her PhD in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Aveiro (Portugal) in early 2014 and since then she has been working at the intersection of technology, design and policy.
Shilpa Singh Jaswant

CyberBRICS Visiting Professor. Shilpa Singh Jaswant is currently an Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law school, O P Jindal Global Law University, India. She can be reached at ssjaswant@jgu.edu.in.
She completed B.Sc. LLB. (Hons) from Gujarat National Law University in 2017. She was awarded the DAAD Scholarship in 2017-18, financed by the European Union, to pursue LLM in European law at the Europa Kolleg- University of Hamburg. Her LLM thesis was published as a Study paper and awarded as the best research.
Prior to teaching at Jindal, she worked as a competition lawyer in Germany and India. Her teaching and research focus at the intersection of law, trade and technology. She writes and researches on decentralised systems, data governance and digital privacy. Her work involves issues regarding constitutional principles, governance systems, and dispute resolution systems.
Her work has appeared in International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, Kluwer Competition law blog, Kluwer Arbitration law blog, Oxford International organisation.
Andrey A. Shcherbovich

CyberBRICS Visiting Professor. Andrey A. Shcherbovich is Associate professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Faculty of Law (Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law), in Moscow, Russia. His professional Interests include Internet Governance; Constitutional Law; Human Rights; International Public Law and Procedure; Information Law; International Organizations; United Nations.
Andrey graduated from the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Faculty of Law (Department of International Law) in 2008 and completed Postgraduate studies at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia); Faculty of Law (Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law) at 2011.
Filipe Medon
PhD and Master in Civil Law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Professor of Civil Law at FGV Direito Rio. Guest professor of postgraduate and extension courses at institutions such as: University of Coimbra, CEPED-UERJ, FGV/RJ, ITS-Rio, PUC-Rio, PUC-PR, IERBB-MP/RJ, EMERJ, ESA-OAB/RJ, ESA-OAB/RS, National School of Law, Brazilian Institute of Education, Development … Read more
Alexandre Costa Barbosa
Alexandre Costa Barbosa is a digital policy consultant, associate researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute and a CyberBRICS fellow. He was an expert advisor to the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee – CGI.br and the Brazilian Internet Governance School. Previously, Costa Barbosa was a senior innovation researcher at the Institute for Technology and Society of Rio de … Read more
Sagwadi Mabunda

CyberBRICS Non-Resident Fellow.
Sagwadi Mabunda is a PhD Candidate at the University of the Western Cape. Her Doctoral thesis investigates the legislative responses of Cybercrime by analysing and critiquing the South African Cybercrimes Bill. She is a prolific speaker who has presented papers in a numerous conferences both in South Africa and internationally (Italy, Germany, Namibia and Botswana). She has published a number papers on her research interests which include Cybercrime and economic crimes such as International Anti-Money Laundering Law and International Anti-Corruption Law.
She has been invited to be a guest lecturer at the University of the Western Cape on the topic of Cyber Money Laundering. She has also successfully organised the first Economic Crime and Cybercrime Conference (ECCC) hosted at the University of the Western Cape in collaboration with the Journal of Anti-Corruption Law (JACL).
In 2018 at age 25, Sagwadi was honoured as one of Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans.
Wei Wang

CyberBRICS Fellow. Wayne Wei Wang is now a PhD Candidate in Computational Legal Studies at the University of Hong Kong. Trained in Engineering and Law, Wayne focuses his research interests on IP & IT Law, Innovation Policy, particularly by means of data science methods. He engages as an Administrative Officer for Creative Commons Hong Kong Chapter. Wayne (has) held the fellowship of DERN/GSAN Resilience Scholar at University of Essex, funded by Global Challenges Research Fund of UK Research and Innovation. As Research Sprint Fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) in Berlin, Wayne has been participating in the interdisciplinary scientific project – “Ethics of Digitalisation”, launched by the President of Germany and conducted by Global Network of Internet and Society Research Centers.
Prior to his PhD studies, Wayne recently completed the WIPO/QUT LLM in Intellectual Property with Dean’s Scholarship in Australia and worked as Data Analyst of IP litigations at a legal tech start-up in Shenzhen as well as Research Associate at Law and Technology Centre, HKU. He also received BEng, LLB and MPhil from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China).
Ekaterina Martynova
Ekaterina graduated Law at Moscow State University in 2012, she is Master in Law from Higher School of Economics, Moscow (2021). Ekaterina has 10+ years’ experience in corporate and financial law, both in law firms and in-house, as well as research and teaching experience. Currently Ekaterina is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of International Law … Read more
Smriti Parsheera

CyberBRICS Fellow. Smriti Parsheera is a Fellow at the National Institute of Public Finance & Policy, New Delhi, where she focuses on technology policy research. Her areas of interest include privacy and digital rights, regulatory governance and competition policy. She is one of the authors of the book “Responsible AI: A Global Policy Framework”. She has previously worked as a member of the research secretariat for the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission and held research positions with the Competition Commission of India and the United Nations Development Programme. Smriti graduated from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and obtained her LLM from the University of Pennsylvania along with a Certificate in Law and Business from the Wharton School. She is currently pursuing a PhD in policy studies from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Mila Samdub
Mila T Samdub is a researcher working on state digital infrastructures and techno-illiberalism in India. He is currently a resident fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He previously worked as a curator at Khoj International Artists’ Association in New Delhi, where his practice focused on the intersections of art, activism and … Read more
Sofia Chang
Researcher at CTS-FGV. Lawyer at UFMG, Master’s student at Peking University. She works with privacy and data protection and researches the regulation of technologies, privacy and data protection in China.
Alexander Ignatov
Alexander Ignatov possesses PhD in Political Science and currently holding the position of a researcher at the Center for International Institutions Research, RANEPA (Moscow). In his research Alexander focuses on global governance issues, multilateral forums agenda (G20, BRICS), and recent trends in the Internet governance system development. With more than 30 research pieces presented up … Read more
Viviane Farias
Viviane Farias is Ph.D. in System Engineering and Computer Science at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and works as a Data and Analytics Governance Specialist at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV). She is postdoctoral research fellow at Center for Technology and Society (FGV Law School). She received her master’s degree in computer engineering … Read more
Danil Kerimi
Danil Kerimi is an experienced technology and public relations executive with a track record of delivering impactful projects in corporate strategy, national, urban and corporate digital transformation, emerging tech, economic and municipal diplomacy in developed, emerging and frontier markets. Currently, Mr. Kerimi serves on the boards of World Smart Sustainable Cities Organization (Seoul), World Intellectual … Read more
Nombulelo Faith Lekota
Nombulelo Faith Lekota is a CyberBRICS researcher with a Master’s in Information Technology from the University of Pretoria and is currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Johannesburg. Her research focuses on ICT Data Governance, Architecture, Cybersecurity frameworks, and best practice standards. With 20 years of experience in the IT industry, … Read more
Jai Vipra
Jai Vipra is an AI policy researcher with over 8 years of experience in technology policy. She has previously worked at the AI Now Institute, the Centre for the Governance of AI, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, IT for Change, and the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy. Jai’s areas of interest are the … Read more
Ian Brown

CyberBRICS Visiting Professor. Ian Brown is Senior Fellow with Research ICT Africa’s Digital Policy Programme, where he is researching cyber-security, data protection, and human rights policy in Africa. He was previously Principal Scientific Officer at the UK government’s Department for Digital Culture, Media and Sport; Professor of Information Security and Privacy at the University of Oxford; and a Knowledge Exchange Fellow with the Commonwealth Secretariat and UK National Crime Agency. His academic publications include Regulating Code (2013, MIT Press, with Christopher T. Marsden) and Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet (2013, Edward Elgar).
Min Jiang

CyberBRICS Visiting Professor. Min Jiang (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor of Communication at UNC Charlotte, a secretariat member of the annual international Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) and Associate Editor at Sage journal Communication & The Public.
Her research focuses on Chinese Internet technologies (search engine, social media, big data), politics (digital activism, online political satire, diplomacy), business (Chinese Internet giants, business ethics), and policies (real name registration, privacy).
She has co-edited 3 special journal issues and published over 30 journal articles and book chapters on the Chinese Internet, some of which have appeared in Journal of Communication, New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, International Journal of Communication, International Communication Gazette, and Policy & Internet. Media outlets including Reuters, Deutsche Welle, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, The New Scientist, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Al Jazeera English have interviewed her for her work.
She was born and raised in China. Prior to pursuing her doctor’s degree in the U.S., she had worked at China Central Television (CCTV) and Kill Bill I in her native country China. Dr. Jiang received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Beijing Foreign Studies University and her Ph.D. from Purdue University.
Larissa Galdino

Larissa Galdino de Magalhães Santos is an expert in digital governance, GovTech, and responsible AI. She has worked with prestigious organizations such as the United Nations University, the Global Center for AI Governance, the Global Data Barometer, the Latin American Open Data Initiative, and the Getúlio Vargas Foundation’s Center for Technology and Society, where she led projects on digital transformation, open data, and AI governance. Since 2020, she has been a CyberBRICS fellow, a unique project dedicated to digital policies among the BRICS countries.
In 2021, she became a Getúlio Vargas Foundation Professional Fellow for Europe. Larissa is a Mila Responsible AI and Human Rights Fellow and was a member of the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program, promoted by Canada. She works pro bono on advocacy initiatives for the Open Data Charter for civil society. She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Bremen, where she develops strategies to enhance GovTech ecosystems in European cities. With over 15 years of research experience and a PhD in Political Science, Larissa brings extensive knowledge to the intersection of technology, governance, and public policy.
Luca Belli

Dr Luca Belli is Professor of Digital Governance and Regulation at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School, Rio de Janeiro, where he directs the Center for Technology and Society (CTS-FGV) and the CyberBRICS project. Luca is also editor of the International Data Privacy Law (IDPL) Journal, published by Oxford University Press, and Director of the Computers Privacy and Data Protection conference Latin-America (CPDP LatAm). He is currently member of the Brazilian Presidency’s National Cybersecurity Committee, board member of the Global Digital Inclusion Partnership and member of the Steering Committee of the Forum for Information & Democracy. He is author of more than 80 publications on law and technology, exploring data governance, cybersecurity, AI regulation, Internet access, and digital transformation.
He has been consulted by several intergovernmental organisations and national regulators, including the Council of Europe, the International Telecommunications Union, the French Telecoms Regulator, etc. and his works have been quoted by numerous media outlets, including The Economist, Financial Times, Forbes, Le Monde, BBC, China Today, The Beijing Review, The Hill, O Globo, Folha de São Paulo, El Pais, etc.
Luca holds a PhD in Public Law from Université Paris Panthéon-Assas and can be found on LinkedIn and on Twitter as @1lucabelli
A list of Luca’s publications can be found at http://lattes.cnpq.br/3521741614966236
Daniel Oppermann

Daniel Oppermann is a research coordinator for the International Relations Research Center at the University of São Paulo (NUPRI-USP). Daniel studied Political Science at the Free University of Berlin (FUB) and holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Brasília (UnB). He was a postdoctoral researcher in International Political Economy at the Institute of Economy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IE-UFRJ) and a researcher at Observatório Político Sul-Americano at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (OPSA-UERJ). Daniel was a member of the Steering Committee of GigaNet, the Global Internet Governance Academic Network, and Chair of Program Committee for the annual GigaNet symposium. Daniel is a member of the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Internet Association Abranet and has worked as an international representative for a European Internet company in Brazil.