CyberBRICS

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

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

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