dsns-act

The infrastructure underlying the internet’s global operations has become highly politicised. DSNS-ACT aims to challenge the shift in recent years toward a characterisation of the global internet as a playing field for ‘digital sovereigns’.

DSNS-ACT is a play on words. It is an acronym for the project’s ambition: to tell A Cautionary Tale about Digital Sovereigns in a Non-Sovereign internet.

By listening to actors from (separate) communities in different world regions, learning from them, and sharing knowledge amongst them, we hope to help these stakeholders come to terms with the consequences of the new politics of global infrastructures. In this way, we aim to contribute to the efforts to maintain the globally unified internet. By building on our research programme on Digital Sovereignty, our global connections to academic networks (e.g. GigaNet), and policy research institutes (such as the UN University network), we propose a research project that focuses on consolidating conversations and building new understandings of the (un)intended consequences of digital sovereignty discourses and actions.