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<div>For those of you who may be in Paris the DIGISOV project is organizing a workshop bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss \u201cDigital Dependencies\u201d on
<b>Tuesday 9 December 2025</b> from 2.00 to 6.00 p.m. at:</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">Institut de Droit Comparé</div>
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<div>Presentations will be in English and admission is free.</div>
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<div>See the presentation below as well as on the project website: <a href="https://digisov.org/en/workshop-digital-dependencies-2/">https://digisov.org/en/workshop-digital-dependencies-2/</a> </div>
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<div>Hope to see many of you there!</div>
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<div>The DIGISOV project team</div>
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<div><b>Presentation</b></div>
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<div><i>In a world where nearly every aspect of life is mediated by technology, our growing \u201cdigital dependencies\u201d have profound social, political, and economic consequences. From reliance on foreign cloud infrastructures and electronic components to dependence
on a handful of global platforms for communication, trade, and knowledge, these invisible ties contribute to the shaping of power relations in the digital age.</i></div>
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<div><i>The workshop \u201cDigital Dependencies\u201d, organized in the frame of the ANR DIGISOV project, brings together researchers and technologists and invites reflection on how such dependencies emerge\u2014and how states, societies and communities work towards building
digital systems that they deem autonomous, resilient, and democratic within such a scenario.</i></div>
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<div><i>Through critical interdisciplinary discussion and shared perspectives, we will explore questions of control, access, and responsibility in an interconnected technological ecosystem. What does it mean to be digitally (in-)dependent in today\u2019s digital
world? What does it mean to be digitally sovereign? Can dependency coexist with autonomy? And how might collective action, open technologies, and policy innovation redefine our digital future?</i></div>
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<div><b>Program</b></div>
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<div>14.00-14.15: Introduction</div>
<div><b>Benjamin Loveluck</b> (CERSA, Paris-Panthéon-Assas University)</div>
<div><b>Francesca Musiani</b> (CIS/CNRS)</div>
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<div>14.00-15.45: <u>Assessing Digital Dependencies</u></div>
<div>Chair: <b>Riccardo Nanni</b> (CIS/CNRS)</div>
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<div><b>Johannes Thumfart</b> (CD2I, Brussels School of Governance)</div>
<div><i><font color="#ea4c21">Digital Sovereignty and the Postliberal Era: Symptom or Remedy?</font></i></div>
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<div><b>Maximilian Mayer</b> (University of Bonn)</div>
<div><font color="#ea4c21"><i>Interpreting New Data from the Digital Dependencies Index (DDI): Emerging Bipolar Structure of Digital Dependency and Europe\u2019s Position</i></font></div>
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<div><b>Ophélie Coelho</b> (CARISM, Paris-Panthéon-Assas University and CIS/CNRS)</div>
<div><i><font color="#ea4c21">Where Power Passes: Territorial Bottlenecks in a Fragmented Digital \u201cSovereignty\u201d</font></i></div>
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<div>15.45-16.00: Coffee break</div>
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<div>16.00-17.30: <u>Countering Digital Dependencies</u></div>
<div>Chair: <b>Ksenia Ermoshina</b> (CIS/CNRS)</div>
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<div><b>Robin Berjon</b> (Deputy director, IPFS Foundation)</div>
<div><i><font color="#ea4c21">Protocols & Institutions: What Democracy Are We Countering Dependencies With?</font></i></div>
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<div><b>Holger Krekel</b> (Managing director, merlinux and Lead developer, Delta Chat)</div>
<div><i><font color="#ea4c21">Sustaining Private Identities and Private Chatting in the Surveillance Age</font></i></div>
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<div><b>Margot François</b> (GEODE, Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis University)</div>
<div><i><font color="#ea4c21">Cuban Technological Sovereignty Discourse: Geopolitical Representations of a Digital David vs. Goliath</font></i></div>
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<div>17.30-17.45: Conclusions</div>
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<b>Benjamin LOVELUCK</b></div>
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CERSA - Paris-Panthéon-Assas University</div>
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