Min Jiang is Professor of Communication Studies and an affiliate faculty member of International Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is a secretariat member of the annual international Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) and a CyberBRICS visiting professor at FGV Law School (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Her research focuses on the intersections of Chinese internet technologies, politics, policies, and, increasingly, their impact on the Global South and global communication. Currently, she serves as an advisory board member and China lead on a CAD $2.5 million research grant on the Global Media and Internet Concentration Project. Jiang received her BA and MA degrees from Beijing Foreign Studies University and her PhD in communication from Purdue University.
Luca Belli is Professor of Digital Governance and Regulation at FGV Law School, where he heads the Center for Technology and Society 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.
Olga Bronnikova is Associate Professor at the University of Grenoble Alpes. She is a member of the Institute of Languages and Cultures of Europe, America, Africa, Asia and Australia (ILCEA4) and an associate member of the Center for Russian, Caucasian and East European Studies (CERCEC). For several years, she has been working on the political mobilization of Russian-speaking migrants in the European Union (EU) countries and on the transnationalization of their political demands. She has recently started research on Russian workers in French factories in the years 1920–1930. In the scope of the L’Agence nationale de la recherche (National Research Agency) and the Net Resisters. Criticism and evasion of digital coercion in Russia (ResisTIC project), she is interested in the migration of web professionals and the circulation of knowledge on digital security between Russia and international organizations.
Enrico Calandro (PhD) is a cybersecurity capacity building consultant and researcher. In 2020, he co-founded the Cybersecurity Capacity Centre for Southern Africa at the University of Cape Town and has been a researcher at Research ICT Africa between 2010 and 2019. Furthermore, he was a board member of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise between 2018 and 2022 and he is the Chairperson of the Research Committee of the GFCE since 2020. For more than ten years, he has explored the relationship between digitalization and development, focusing on digital inequalities. His targeted and locally-relevant research has aimed at shaping cyber policy processes and debates and at crafting evidence-based and informed capacity-building initiatives in the field of cyber and digital policy.
Stefano Calzati is currently a postdoc researcher in the Department of Urbanism at Technology University of Delft. His research interests and teaching cover technology governance, philosophy of technology, data ethics, and ICT geopolitics. Before joining TU Delft, Calzati was a postdoc fellow at Tallinn University of Technology – where he researched China–Africa relations in ICTs – and a teaching assistant at Polytechnic Institute of Milan, where he taught sociology of media and digital cultures. Calzati has authored several peer-reviewed academic articles and five books, among which Mediating Travel Writing, Mediated China: The Middle Kingdom in Travel Books and Blogs (Common Ground, 2018).
Wanshu Cong is a lecturer at the College of Law of the Australian National University (ANU). Her research interests include the theory and history of international law, critical legal studies, and the intersection of law and technology. Her current project draws from Marxist and Third World Approaches to International Law to examine the histories and contestations of freedom of information in international law. Cong holds a doctoral degree from McGill University and was Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute and Global Academic Fellow before joining the ANU.
Françoise Daucé is Professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and Director of CERCEC. Her current research work focuses on censorship in the public sphere and the framing of political criticism in Russian society. She coordinates the research project ResisTIC project (2018–2022). She published in a range of journals, including First Monday, Critique Internationale, Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest, Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Journal of Civil Society, and Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research.
Henrique Estides Delgado is a PhD candidate in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and in the Department of Economics at G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara. His research interests are in the politics and economics of development, with a focus on the institutions that mediate technological upgrading and the role of international flows. He has worked as a professor in Brazil (Santa Úrsula University, among others) and in the United States (University of Denver and Colorado School of Mines). Delgado currently works as a researcher in a project funded by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research.
Vashishtha Doshi is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). His research interests include currency internationalization, politics of sovereign debt, and the geopolitics of finance and technology. His dissertation focuses on the economic statecraft of middle powers, and the policies enacted that allow them to enhance (or not) their autonomy in a hierarchically structured world of technology and finance. The research seeks to explore what differences in international relations, domestic business–state relations, and institutional setups allow developing countries to enact (or not) autonomy-enhancing policies. Vashishtha also has several years of public service and higher education administration experience. He currently serves as the Associate Director of Career Development for the M.S. in Business Analytics program at UC Davis Graduate School of Management.
Ksenia Ermoshina is a tenure researcher at the Center for Internet and Society National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and an associate researcher at the Citizen Lab (University of Toronto). She holds a PhD from Mines Paris Tech and develops an interdisciplinary approach on the intersection of Science and Technology Studies, usability studies, and network measurements. As a specialist in sociology of privacy-enhancing technologies and surveillance studies, she is also involved in software development (with Delta Chat and CENO browser) as a user experience researcher.
Venkatesh Hariharan is the India Representative of the Open Invention Network, an organization that protects the open source community from patent litigation, Public Policy Director for FOSS United, and a researcher in digital public goods. Hariharan has thirty-two years of experience in journalism and public policy with organizations such as Indian Express, IIIT Bangalore, Red Hat, Google, iSPIRT, and the Data Governance Network at IDFC Institute. In these roles, he has been involved in key policy issues such as open source in government, open standards, software patents, Indian Language Computing, free speech on the internet, privacy, building and evangelizing digital public goods, and many others. His long-term interest is in democratizing access to technology and knowledge.
Valéry Kossov is an associate professor in Russian language and civilization at the University Grenoble Alpes and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Slavic Studies at ILCEA4. His recent work in the ResisTIC research project addresses the issue of the legal framework of the internet in contemporary Russia as well as the strategies of resistance and circumvention of legal constraints by Russian lawyers engaged in the defense of digital rights.
Benjamin Loveluck is Junior Professor of Political Science at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, a researcher at Centre for the Study and Research on Administrative and Political Sciences (CERSA). His current research focuses on surveillance, censorship, and social control online (such as digital vigilantism). His wider interests include online political practices, digital governance, and the political economy of information. He has published in a range of journals including Journal of Information Technology & Politics, First Monday, Global Crime, and Internet Policy Review.
Francesca Musiani is Associate Research Professor at the CNRS. She is Deputy Director of the Center for Internet and Society of CNRS, which she cofounded in 2019. She is also an associate researcher at the Center for the Sociology of Innovation (i3/MINES ParisTech) and Global Fellow at the Internet Governance Lab, American University in Washington, DC. Francesca is the author, with Ksenia Ermoshina, of Concealing for Freedom: The Making of Encryption, Secure Messaging and Digital Liberties (2022, Mattering Press) and the author, coauthor, and editor of numerous other articles and books. She is the vice president for research of Internet Society France, has collaborated with the French Parliament (2014–2015) and the French Council for Audiovisual Media (2015–2018), and is the recent coauthor of a study on internet fragmentation for the European Parliament (2022).
Sarayu Natarajan is the founder of Aapti Institute, a think tank working at the intersection of technology and society. Her research and practice focus on digital public goods and infrastructures, open technology, governance, inclusion, and citizenship. Professionally, she has a background in management consulting (McKinsey & Company), venture investing (Elevar Equity), program development and management (Gray Matters Capital), and academic research. She has a PhD in political science from King’s College London, an MA in public policy from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and a BA degree in arts and law from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.
Bella Ostromooukhova is an associate professor at Sorbonne University. She is a member of the research project ResisTIC project (2018–2022). Her research in the sociology of culture focuses on independent publishing and censorship issues, as well as on internet publishing in contemporary Russia. She has published in First Monday, Terminal, Cahiers du Monde russe, Le Mouvement Social, and Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research.
Perrine Poupin is a sociologist, Associate Research Professor at CNRS, at the Centre for research on sound space and urban environment (CRESSON) in the Ambiances Architectures Urbanities Laboratory team in Grenoble. She works on environmental issues, protest movements, and war in Russia and Ukraine. She is a member of the research project ResisTIC project (2018–2022). In the past few years, she has focused and published on the Shies protest against government plans for a massive landfill in the Arkhangelsk Region, in Russia’s north, which was launched by local habitants and lasted two years.
Johannes Thumfart is currently conducting a project on internet shutdowns within the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at VUB. He conducted a research project about digital sovereignty at Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB) from 2020 to 2022, which was supported by Gerda Henkel Stiftung. Following research and teaching positions at Humboldt University and Free University in Berlin, Paris VIII, University of Cincinnati and Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, he is currently teaching ethics of international security management at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. He is a trained philosopher and historian and holds a PhD in the intellectual history of international law.
Tales Tomaz is a researcher and lecturer in media policy and media economics at the University of Salzburg (Austria) and a project manager of the EU-funded Euromedia Ownership Monitor (EurOMo: https://media-ownership.eu). Between 2019 and 2021, he managed the Media for Democracy Monitor, coedited and published a book trilogy on the topic with Josef Trappel, published by Nordicom. His current research interests are normative theories of news media, news media structure, and digital communication governance, focused especially on public regulation and alternative economic models.
Anna Zaytseva is Associate Professor at the University of Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès, a member of the LLA Créatis laboratory, and an associate member of CERCEC/EHESS. She specializes in the sociology of arts, cultural practices, social movements, and urbanism. Her interests include transformations of cultural industries and intellectual property rights in the digital age, the evolution of cultural hierarchies and creative figures in the USSR and contemporary Russia, and the diversity and historical development of forms of engagement and protest at the intersection of art, “alternative” cultures, and activism. She is also a translator of works in the humanities and social sciences and of independent comics.
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