Charlotte Escorne & Hugo Estecahandy at the IGU’s Commission on Geography of Governance’s Annual Conference

Charlotte Escorne & Hugo Estecahandy at the IGU’s Commission on Geography of Governance’s Annual Conference

IGU
17 August 2021

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On June 24, 2021, Charlotte Escorne and Hugo Estecahandy presented their research at the Commission on Geography of Governance’s Annual Conference.

Hugo Estecahandy spoke in the morning on the topic: “Centralization of power and decentralization technology. Critical analysis of the implementation of blockchain technology in electronic voting solutions in the city of Moscow”.

Charlotte Escorne spoke in the afternoon to present her research on “The deployment of 5G in Africa: a technological lever to improve local development?”.

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Hugo Estecahandy & Kevin Limonier “Cryptocurrencies and processing power in Russia: a new strategic territory in eastern Siberia?”

Hugo Estecahandy & Kevin Limonier “Cryptocurrencies and processing power in Russia: a new strategic territory in eastern Siberia?”

Journal of Cyber Policy
17 August 2021

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Discover the paper co-authored by Hugo Estecahandy and Kevin Limonier on “Cryptocurrencies and processing power in Russia: a new strategic territory in eastern Siberia?”, published by The Chatham House & Tandfonline in the Journal of Cyber Policy !

Abstract : This paper analyses the emerging Russian cryptocurrency mining industry, with a particular focus on eastern Siberia. This major strategic industry provides the region with a growing calculation power and fosters potential innovations – in encryption especially. In fact, the crypto-mining industry has noticeably coalesced in eastern Siberia because the region offers a series of geographic, climatic, economic and technical advantages – the magnitude of which is hard to match anywhere else in the world. This article focuses on the oblast of Irkutsk and shows how crypto-mining has come to encompass both economic and political powers and to involve a number of Russian actors and infrastructures. Ultimately, the local dynamics in eastern Siberia teach us a lot about the fate of the industry nationally.

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Ilan Scialom at the Gulf Information Security Expo & Conference – GISEC

Ilan Scialom at the Gulf Information Security Expo & Conference – GISEC

GISEC
31 May 2021

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On the occasion of the GISEC international cybersecurity exhibition, which took place in Dubai from June 31 to 2, 2021, Ilan Scialom presented the geopolitical and cyber impacts of the normalization agreements, known as the Abraham Accords, between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. 

After explaining that cooperation between the two states has existed for many years, he returned to the emergence of cyber and technological partnerships at various levels – state, private. This major trend may in the medium term announce a shift in geopolitical dynamics in the Middle East with major implications for other States in the region.

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