Blogs

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, 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 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.