• Governmental and Public Sovereignty – PS A.5
• Panel: Governing Algorithms, Empowering Humans: Institutional Architectures for Accountable AI in Public Policy, Healthcare, and Legal Aid – PS B.5
• DS Special Track Session: Digital Infrastructure – PS C.5

Session A5 (Auditorium) :

Chair:

• “Demand-side sovereignty: public dialogue and government innovation.” ; Jessica Montgomery – University of Cambridge and Neil D. Lawrence – University of Cambridge. (Submission #66)
• “Wikipedia Mobile Views as a Policy Evaluation Infrastructure” ; Paul Favier – Université Paris Dauphine-PSL and Lucas Eustache – Université Paris Dauphine-PSL. (Submission #75)
• “From Platform Power to Algorithmic Governance: Democratic Platform Constitutionalism in Digitally Mediated Societies.” ; Mini Srivastava – Amity Law School, Amity University. (Submission #79)
• “Towards Digital Sovereignty in European Public Administrations: Managing Dependencies in Digital Infrastructures.” ; Patrick Mikalef – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, A. Paula Rodriguez Müller – Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Marijn Janssen – TU Delft, Luca Tangi – Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Tomasz Janowski – Gdańsk University of Technology and Sara Thabit Gonzalez – Joint Research Centre, European Commission. (Submission #180)

Session B5: (Room B)

Chair:

Panel: Governing Algorithms, Empowering Humans: Institutional Architectures for Accountable AI in Public Policy, Healthcare, and Legal Aid  (Submission #84)

• “Artificial Intelligence for Public Policy: A Conceptual Framework for Addressing Epistemic and Ontological Biases through Human-Directed Policy Analytics” ; Ebinezer Florano – University of the Philippines Diliman National College of Public Administration and Governance.
• “Interdisciplinary Governance Framework for AI in Philippine Healthcare”; Iris Thiele Isip Tan – University of the Philippines Manila College of Medicine, Lisa Traboco, and Michael Fong – University of the Philippines Diliman.

DS Special Track Session C5: Digital Infrastructure (Room C)

Chair: Tim Gordon, Co-Founder, The Digital Statecraft Academy (DSA)

• “Financing Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Value Chains: Mapping AI Infrastructure Investments and Compute Governance Across Africa.” ; Kai-Hsin Hung – HEC Montreal, Sumaya Nur Adan – University of Oxford, Krupa Suchak – DataSpires, Armita Sadeghian Barzoki – Toronto Metropolitan University, Kofi Yeboah – Mozilla Foundation, Mohammad Amir Anwar – University of Edinburgh and University of Johannesburg. (Submission #DAP-2026-0230)
•  “From Data Securitisation to AI Governance: China’s Emerging Model of Digital Statecraft.” ; Mireia Paulo Noguera – Ruhr-Universität Bochum. (Submission #101)
• “Sovereign Mirroring: Domestic Platform-Building and the Reorganization of Global Open-Source Dependence in China.” ; Brigitta Németh – Corvinus University of Budapest and Johannes Wachs – Corvinus University of Budapest. (Submission #176)