The Global Governance of the Internet and of the Future Emerging Technologies Interdisciplinary Studies Program Fall 2023 Semester - Barcelona

The course is aimed at analysing how the Internet and Future Emerging Technologies are governed at a global level. In a continuously evolving context, the course is an invitation to reflect about different initiatives at the international level aimed at addressing some of the key challenges traditionally associated to these technologies (including issues of privacy and data protection, limitations on freedom of expression and content moderation online, as well as the social and environmental impact of digital technologies). In this sense, the course will focus on understanding the role that non-State actors (such as international governmental and non-governmental organisations, non-state public organisations, private companies, and the broader global civil society) play in these initiatives as well as the models of governance that each of these players support and promote when it comes to the governance of the Internet and of Future Emerging Technologies.