Cyber Policy and Digital Affairs

    Legal, Ethical, and Democratic Issues

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    The datasphere presents new challenges for collective security, economic prosperity, democratic values and state sovereignty. The public policy challenges concern in particular:

    • International regulation to ensure peace and stability in cyberspace in the face of the proliferation of tools and offensive operations
    • Conflicts of jurisdiction between States or between the State and the private sector and the transformation of the exercise of the regalian powers of States faced with the power of intermediation platforms
    • The development of digital technologies (cryptography, AI, 5G, cloud)
    • The challenges and strategies of digital sovereignty in a context of strategic competition
    • Ethical, legal and democratic issues in an environment that offers a multitude of actors unprecedented access to personal data.
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    News of the theme

    The Human Factor in the Geopolitics of the Internet
    Pr. Frédérick Douzet awarded €2.5 million ERC grant for her research on Geopolitics of Internet data routes
    Introducing the Humanitarian Cybersecurity Center!
    The Russia Program, the new university-based analytical center created by the George Washington University in partnership with GEODE
    The Legal Protection of International Organisations’ Data – Report by Aude Géry and Anne-Thida Norodom
    Prepping for Long-Term Competition? U.S. Leadership in Cyberspace from Trump to Biden
    The war in Ukraine, open source investigation and the potential for “digital fieldwork” in geopolitics
    UGI 2022 – Communication from Margot François
    UGI 2022 – Communication from Alix Desforges
    UGI 2022 – Communication from Ilan Scialom

    Researchers of the theme

    ABDOU HASSAN Adam Teacher and researcher in public law, specialist in cybercrime and cyberdefense
    BECHROURI Ibrahim PhD in Geopolitics, expert on anti-terrorism issues
    BERTRAN Marie Gabrielle PhD candidate, software development specialist in Russia
    BÔMONT Clotilde PhD geography, Cloud specialist
    CASSOU-NOGUÈS Pierre University Professor of Philosophy
    CATTARUZZA Amaël University professor in geography, specialist in digital technology and the Balkans
    COLIN Sébastien Lecturer in Geography
    DANET Dider Lecturer and Director of the Specialized Master in Cyber ​​Defense Operations and Crisis Management
    DESFORGES Alix PostDoct, French cyber defense specialist
    DOUZET Frédérick Director of GEODE, University Professor and member of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace
    ESCORNE Charlotte PhD candidate, specialized in the deployment of 5G in Africa
    ESTECAHANDY Hugo PhD candidate, specialist in the geographies of crypto-currencies and their mining industries
    FRANÇOIS Camille PhD candidate, specialist in informational operations on social networks
    FRANÇOIS Margot PhD candidate, specialist in Cuban digital space
    GÉRARD Colin PhD, specialist in Russian information influence strategies
    GÉRAUD Rémi Cryptologist and security researcher, affiliated to the Ecole normale supérieure
    GÉRY Aude Senior researcher in public international law, specialist in international legal issues of cybersecurity
    GRUMBACH Stéphane Research Director at Inria, specialist in geopolitical issues of the digital transformation of human societies
    LIMONIER Kevin Deputy Director of GEODE, lecturer, specialist in Russian-speaking cyberspace
    NDIOR Valère Professor of Public Law at the University of Western Brittany, President of the Francophone Network of International Law
    NOCETTI Julien Teacher and researcher at the Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan schools
    NORODOM Anne-Thida Professor of public law at University of Paris, secretary general of the French Society for International Law
    PETINIAUD Louis PhD in Geopolitics, specialist in the geopolitics of Internet infrastructures and data routing in territorial conflicts in the post-Soviet space
    RAUZY Pablo Lecturer in computer science, specialist in emancipatory computer security
    SAINT-MEZARD Isabelle Professor at the French Institute of Geopolitics and Deputy Director of IFG Lab
    SALAMATIAN Kavé Professor at the University of Savoie. Specialist in Internet measurement and information theory in networks
    SALAMATIAN Loqman PhD candidate in mathematics. Internet transmission protocol specialist
    SCIALOM Ilan Phd candidate, specialist in the cybersecurity of critical infrastructures and the Israeli and Emirati digital spaces
    Sophie Hamel PhD candidate, focusing on the deployment of digital infrastructure in the South Pacific
    TAILLAT Stéphane Lecturer, Cyber ​​Warfare specialist
    WARUSFEL Bertrand Professor of Law, Vice President of the French Association of Security and Defense Law (AFDSD)
    WEBER Claude Lecturer in Sociology