Examines the complex relationship between technology and development in the context of the political and institutional process, using a comparative framework. Its specific objectives are to identify broad political, administrative and policy strategies related to technology transfer and environmentally sound sustainable development; to analyse policy options for dealing with global, transboundary, and domestic issues relating to technological changes and environmental challenges; to examine the ethical, cultural, legal, political, institutional, administrative, scientific and technological frameworks which underlie and shape the human dimension of global change.
To foster a global network of political scientists and others to engage in research in the dynamics of human interactions with science and technology; and to provide a comparative perspective to such issues as sustainable development, managing the environment, technology transfer, global environmental facility, role of international aid agencies.
- Biomarkers and Agentic AI: the role of control versus real freedom for development
Chair: Mrs. Carolina Polito - Climate Change, Sustainable Development and AI: Methodologies for a longer-run, better-world development
Chair: Prof. Miguel Rocha de Sousa - Debating Digital Sovereignty
Chair: Dr. Marina Kaneti - Democracy at a Crossroads in the AI Era: Global Cases of Uncertain Democratic Governance
Chair: Prof. Miguel Rocha de Sousa - Democracy in Transition: Non-State Actors, Multipolarity and the Crisis of Multilateralism
Chair: Prof. Arunoday Bajpai - Digital Public Goods: Concepts, Politics, and Governance
Chair: Dr. Marina Kaneti - Grounding the Cloud: Data Centers, People, and Global Politics
Chair: Prof. Emilian Kavalski - Making Political Beings: AI and the Politics of Socialization
Chair: Dr. Marina Kaneti - Social Media and Democracy: Contemporary Cases of Digital Transformation and Democratic Uncertainty
Chair: Prof. Sheila Rai - The Politics of AI Governance
Chair: Dr. Marina Kaneti - War, commitment and reassessment: What’s the role of conflicts on world under-development and the new agentic AI?
Chair: Dr. Snigdha Tripathi - Why STEM Education Needs Political Science
Chair: Dr. Xiaoqiao Zhang
