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Katja Bego
Nov 19, 202015 min read
The great unwinding: Charting post-COVID futures for the internet
Repost May 2020: The world has perhaps never been more globalised than under this current lockdown. For billions, the internet – in many...
Katja Bego
Nov 18, 20203 min read
‘Deepfake’ videos get weaponised
Repost from 2018: 2019 will be the year that a malicious ‘deepfake’ video sparks a geopolitical incident, says Katja Bego. [I am...
Katja Bego
Nov 18, 202017 min read
Ten challenges for the internet
Repost 2018: In this blog, I introduce the ten key topics that form the basis for my vision for a more inclusive, democratic and...
Katja Bego
Nov 18, 20205 min read
The year the internet goes green
Repost from 2017: If 2017 was the year we worried about the impact of the internet on our democracies, 2018 will be the year we start to...
Katja Bego
Nov 18, 20204 min read
The Splinternet
Repost from 2016: 2016 was a year dominated by seismic political events around the globe, shaking the democratic underpinnings of our...
Katja Bego
Nov 18, 202010 min read
The end of the web: get ready for the splinternet
Repost from 2017: With the global order fragmenting, cyber-security threats on the rise, and the deluge of information becoming...
Katja Bego
Nov 15, 20206 min read
When will we finally see another woman win a Nobel Prize in economics?
Repost from 2016: Women are notoriously underrepresented among Nobel laureates - particularly in the field of economics. What explains...
Katja Bego
Nov 15, 20204 min read
Pokémon Go and the marketing agencies of the augmented world
Repost from 2016: What if a coffee chain could buy the exclusive rights to turn all its stores into Pokemon gyms? [I am archiving some...
Katja Bego
Nov 15, 20205 min read
Who rules the internet? Getting under the skin of one of today's trickiest cross-border policy quest
[I am archiving some of my writing in the spirit of digital preservation - this is a repost of a blog that originally appeared on the...
Katja Bego
Nov 14, 20207 min read
What happened to Ghost Boat? Crowdsourcing the public to find a missing refugee ship
Ghost Boat brings together journalists and the public to find a missing refugee ship. What can it teach us about participatory citizen...
Katja Bego
Nov 14, 20208 min read
Crawling the dark web: the economics of online drug markets
[Post from Oct, 2015] Research into anonymous drug trades shines a light on a second generation of dark web cryptomarkets.
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