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Authors: Nicole Manger and Vidisha Mishra I Dec 5, 2025 in Tech Policy Press The European Digital Summit in Berlin last month marked a decisive shift in Europe’s approach to digital governance. Convened by Germany and France, the Summit signaled that Europe is moving beyond its decade-long identity as the global benchmark for digital regulation. The shift is industrial and security-driven: 80 percent of Europe’s digital infrastructure relies on non-European providers, crea

Cultural rights and the right to development are essential norms within the wider framework of international human rights law. However, recent technological advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and adjacent digital frontier technologies pose significant challenges to the protection and realization of these rights. This owes to the increasing influence of AI systems on the creation and depiction of cultural content, affect the use and distribution of the intellectual prope

Authors: Vidisha Mishra and Nicole Manger / Sep 11, 2025 in Tech Policy Press On August 26, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution A/RES/79/325 (the AI Modalities Resolution) by consensus, without a vote, following months of negotiations. At a time when consensus is elusive and the multilateral system is under constraint , this follow-up to the Global Digital Compact (GDC) marks a timely and substantive step towards global AI governance. This challenge transcends border

Press release by the TUM Institute for the Ethics of AI (IEAI) / September 8, 2025 In August, the IEAI co-hosted a high-level International Policy Dialog on AI and Human Rights  in Stellenbosch, South Africa together with scholars from Stellenbosch University and Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich.  The Stellenbosch dialog directly followed the International Summit on AI and Human Rights in Munich , where the IEAI initiated the critical discussion on a globally binding fr

Introduction: The stakes for digital infrastructure have never been higher. Rapid advances in technology – in particular, generative AI – are not only transforming the nature of work and everyday life but redefining the meaning of sovereignty for individuals, communities and even nation states. This toolkit is meant to assist policymakers in designing digital infrastructure that can keep pace with emerging technologies, while preserving basic rights and rules that protect and