Digital Sovereignty in a Fragmented World: Power, Control, and the Future of Global Order

The digital revolution has reshaped how nations govern, compete, and interact with each other. It has also changed States’ abilities to exercise power – both regulatory and direct – without regard to distance and borders. What does this mean for users, businesses, Swiss and Europeans?

This lecture by Przemysław Roguski explores the urgent global debate on digital sovereignty: the struggle of states to control data, technologies and infrastructures within their borders. Through a comparative analysis of Europe, the United States, China and Russia, it examines how different conceptions of sovereignty are rewriting the rules of international law and geopolitics.

Dr. Przemysław Roguski is an assistant professor at the Jagiellonian University Chair for Public International Law and Principal Investigator at the «Sovereignty 2.0 – ‘digital sovereignty’ in light of public international law» project, which is financed with a grant from the Polish National Science Council (NCN). His research focuses on the law of peacetime cyber operations and different aspects of international law relating to cybersecurity, ICT and internet governance. Przemysław holds law degrees from the University of Mainz (Germany), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and a PhD in international law from Jagiellonian University. He is a Senior Advisor at ICT4Peace Foundation and a DSI Fellow in the summer of 2025.

When / Wann: June 18, 2025, 16:30

Where / Wo: Digital Society Initiative, Rämistrasse 69, 8001 Zurich

Language / Sprache:  English

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Organisation: DSI Community Cybersecurity

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