The webinar today provides a glimpse into an ongoing vigorous debate in the GigaNet <https://www.giga-net.org/> community. 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Scholars of differing views to debate what digital sovereignty means, how it is being used as a label, and whether the various interpretations of the term are compatible with the foundational values of the open Internet. Recently, new books and analyses have been published, including the book edited by Min Jiang and Luca Belli, *Digital sovereignty in the BRICS countries <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=a22a3d04bc21d6fbcd5c3d2b45a65394fce43aacf58ef8005238a13a70cfe9c7&blog_id=151329629&post_id=19132&user_id=2239291&subs_id=125336&signature=9bab5af95abb597138636bc76abc8591&email_name=new-post&user_email=joly@punkcast.com&encoded_url=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2FtYnJpZGdlLm9yZy9jb3JlL2Jvb2tzL2RpZ2l0YWwtc292ZXJlaWdudHktaW4tdGhlLWJyaWNzLWNvdW50cmllcy8yN0U5RkQ3RTQ1NzlDNzZDOEQ0QkE1MkY3NjcwQjQzMQ=&email_id=f7f1680c6aa364a938f0f49e7b5544cf>* (Cambridge, 2025), the volume by Johannes Thumfart, *The liberal internet in the postliberal era <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=572d2b679622bb2946b49b93a598505662fbc656eac233fac1b520ef577b3f94&blog_id=151329629&post_id=19132&user_id=2239291&subs_id=125336&signature=623aac84734820fc840f38be36a92fcb&email_name=new-post&user_email=joly@punkcast.com&encoded_url=aHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLnNwcmluZ2VyLmNvbS9ib29rLzEwLjEwMDcvOTc4LTMtMDMxLTYzNDI2LTA&email_id=f7f1680c6aa364a938f0f49e7b5544cf>* (Springer, 2024), and *a special issue of Policy & Internet <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=ad7b77d476996a700a1d31e4f7f78ae375b8bd11d55fc94c78cafb2add5387fb&blog_id=151329629&post_id=19132&user_id=2239291&subs_id=125336&signature=3a3fca7598421b77c6db50672fb14c18&email_name=new-post&user_email=joly@punkcast.com&encoded_url=dHRwczovL29ubGluZWxpYnJhcnkud2lsZXkuY29tL2RvaS9mdWxsLzEwLjEwMDIvcG9pMy40Mzc&email_id=f7f1680c6aa364a938f0f49e7b5544cf>* on the topic, edited by Julia Pohle, Mauro Santantiello, and Riccardo Nanni. *SPEAKERS* *Anupam Chander* - 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