News on Infrastructure & Standards

Introduction In the past years, growing popular debate and technological developments have focused on the potential and promises of decentralised or distributed technologies for purposes of financial transactions, digital governance, data processing, and content sharing. However, the project of leveraging decentralisation as a means of resistance

Decentralised Autonomous Organisations ( DAOs) promise to be decentralised, but many fall short of this promise in practice. This is why.

The connectivity potential of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites will be hindered if they are operating at the will of private interests and their political alliances.

When we look at the recent Twitter-Mastodon exodus, we see a new trend of responsibilisation or placing the burden someplace else — from platform to user.

This opinion piece looks at resilience in science in the context of digital transformation.

This opinion piece is part of a 3-part miniseries advancing key reflections in disinformation governance. This article discusses the potential of new institutions for disinformation governance.

This opinion piece is part of a 3-part miniseries advancing key reflections in disinformation governance. This article discusses conceptual challenges for disinformation governance.

This opinion piece is part of a 3-part miniseries advancing key reflections in disinformation governance. This article discusses the role of empirical evidence.

Findings from other countries indicate that women drop out of platform work twice as quickly as men. We showcase that Serbian women crowdworkers have the same survival rates as men as long as they have the same level of skills and education.

This opinion piece argues that current attempts at platform regulation will fall short if they continue to focus on platform size, or if they remain limited to particular normative silos.