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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Kevin Limonier “Russia’s African Toolkit: Digital Influence and Entrepreneurs of Influence” – Orbis

Kevin Limonier “Russia’s African Toolkit: Digital Influence and Entrepreneurs of Influence” – Orbis

ORBIS
18 June 2021

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Discover the article written by Kevin Limonier and Marlene Laruelle on “Russia’s African Toolkit: Digital Influence and Entrepreneurs of Influence”

Abstract : Today, Russian influence on the African continent is still anecdotic compared to the People’s Republic of China, the United States, and former colonial powers, such as France. Yet, Moscow has committed to reasserting itself as an alternative pole of influence to China and Western countries in the eyes of some African elites. This article analyzes two key components of Russia’s African toolkit: its media outlets such as RT and Sputnik, which have managed to impose themselves on the African media landscape, and its entrepreneurs of influence, in charge of influence campaigns of different scopes. The article contends that Russia’s media success relies more on the appropriation of its informational content by African actors with their own political agendas than on Moscow convincing African audiences of the legitimacy of its foreign policy or political model, and that entrepreneurs of influence may play a useful, but limited, role in testing new parameters of influence.

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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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