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
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
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
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
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
Article by CyberBRICS Director, Dr. Luca Belli, published at the Beijing Review in July 14, 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
