CyberBRICS

👥 Luca will present the panel “Digital Public Infrastructure and Cross-Border Digital Payments – Building a BRICS Digital Economy Architecture.” 🔗Access more information about India’s BRICS 2026 presidency and its pillars via the link: #brics_theme" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">brics2026.gov.in/brics-india-20…

🔍 The Indian presidency emphasizes the blend of tradition and modernity and the three pillars of BRICS are highlighted to promote inclusion, dialogue, and joint growth: Political & Security Cooperation, Economic & Financial Partnership, and People-to-People Exchanges

📌Professor Luca Belli, coordinator of the Center for Technology and Society (CTS-FGV) at FGV Direito Rio, will participate in the BRICS Roundtable on Digital Governance: Toward a BRICS Framework for Digital Governance, organized by the BRICS+ 2026 Task Force.

📌 Luca Belli, professor at FGV Direito Rio and coordinator of CTS-FGV, along with Larissa Galdino, organized the publication “SmartBRICS: How the BRICS Countries are Regulating their Digital Transformation,” a work resulting from the collaboration between CTS-FGV and UNU-EGOV

📌 Luca Belli, professor at FGV Direito Rio and coordinator of CTS-FGV, and Sofia Chang, researcher at CTS, wrote the article “Data governance in China: sovereignty, cybersecurity, and data protection towards the ‘Beijing Effect’”

📌 @1lucabelli, professor at FGV Direito Rio and coordinator of CTS-FGV, and Walter B. Gaspar, researcher at CTS-FGV, edited the book “The Quest for AI Sovereignty, Transparency and Accountability”.

🔗Access the pre-print of the article via the link: cyberbrics.info/pre-print-gove…

💬The study is based on 4 axes: historical/cultural foundations that shape the state's view of data; normative experimentation mechanisms used to validate public policies; institutional and regulatory instruments; international impacts of the strategy

🔗Check out more information about the book at this link: repositorio.fgv.br/items/a75a14bb…

💬The Coalition discusses existing approaches to data and AI governance, promoting analysis of good and bad practices to identify solutions to be replicated or avoided by stakeholders to achieve a sustainable data and AI governance, with a focus on Global South countries

🌐 The book is the result of a participatory process developed by the Data and Artificial Intelligence Governance (DAIG) Coalition of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF), and it's the preliminar version of the outcome report presented at the IGF in Japan in 2023

🔗Check out more information about the book at this link: academic.oup.com/book/61651

💬The book highlights regulatory developments in each BRICS country, and analyze the challenges they face in their specific contexts, encompassing their distinct approaches and institutional structures, and how they influence other countries with its policy and governance choices

📌 @1lucabelli , professor at FGV Direito Rio and coordinator of CTS-FGV, and Walter B. Gaspar, researcher at CTS-FGV, edited and contributed chapters to the book “Personal Data Architectures in the BRICS Countries,” published by Oxford University Press.