Section: Research Program

Dynamics of digital transformations

The research program of the Datasphere team aims at understanding the transformations induced by digital systems on socio-economic and socio-ecological organizations. These transformations are very broad and impact a large part of society. Understanding these changes is very ambitious and would require much more resources than those of the team. Interactions with other teams in other disciplines is thus of strategic importance. The research directions we have worked in and will continue to in the coming years are the following.

• The legal and strategic implications of the development of networks, the growing global interdependencies, and the increase of digital flows beyond control.

• The geopolitics of digital systems, data flows and cyber control, the raise of new strategic imbalances, and digital powers (US, China, Russia, etc.)

• The structural consequences of the translation of governance to digital actors, their inclusion into diplomatic forums, and the weakening of sovereignty over territories.