- Digital and Infrastructure Sovereignty – PS A.8
- Content Moderation – PS B.8
- DS Special Track Session: Governability – PS C.8
05/08/2026
Session A8 (Auditorium):
Chair: Dr Migle Laukyte – Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- “From strategic autonomy to local capacity: digital sovereignty in European local governance policy discourse.” ; Frederic Heymans – Vrije Universiteit Brussel. (Submission #186)
- “Algorithmic Data Flows and Trade in Digital Services: Reimagining Data Sovereignty, Inequality, and Justice in WTO Governance.” ; Ayushi Singh – Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University and Samanvi Narang – Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University. (Submission #165)
- “An ecosystem approach to measure Digital Sovereignty: The case of AI.” ; Loreta Isaraj – Joint Research Centre, Sara Thabit-Gonzalez – Joint Research Centre, Giovanni Cerulli – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) and Diletta Di Marco – Joint Research Centre. (Submission #137)
- “Infrastructure as Destiny: Why AI Memory and Evaluation Architectures Determine Sovereign Governance Capacity” – Marcel Osmond – Queen Mary University of London, Center For Commercial Law Studies. (Submission #DAP-2026-0183)
Session B8: (Room B)
Chair: Dr Antoni Rubi-Puig – Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- “Evaluating Compliance with the Digital Services Act by Adult Content Platforms.” ; Gautam Kishore Shahi – University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany and Tim A. Majchrzak – Center for Advanced Internet Studies,Germany. (Submission #112)
- “Artificial Intelligence and Children’s Data Privacy in Kenya and South Africa: Reimagining Legal Approaches for the Digital Future.” ; Shirley Genga – Free State Centre for Human Rights. (Submission #105)
- “The Child Visibility Index: A Data-Driven Framework for Measuring Children’s Presence in Public Policy and Administrative Systems.” ; Maria Lokteva – Child Visibility Initiative, powered by inDrive and Nailakhanim Rustamova – Child Visibility Initiative, powered by inDrive. (Submission #57)
- “Lost in Translation? Quantifying Linguistic Bias in the Digital Infrastructure of the Science–Policy Interface.” ; Francis Lareau – UQAM, Jérémie Dion – Université de Sherbrooke, Louis Renaud-Desjardins – Université du Québec à Montréal, Malvina Barra – Université du Québec à Montréal, Luisa Ripoll-Alberola – Computational Humanities group, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany and François Claveau – Université de Sherbrooke. (Submission #121)
DS Special Track Session C8: Governability (Room C)
Chair: Prof Jennifer Schooling – Anglia Ruskin University
- “The Invisible Governance Layer: Legal Gaps in AI Evaluation Infrastructure and Implications for Tech Sovereignty.” ; Stevie Cline – Ohio Northern University. (Submission #12)
- “Digital Policy Design: from Principles to Practices” ; Fortunato Musella – University of Naples “Federico II”, Luigi Rullo – University of Naples “Federico II” and Sara Concetta Santoriello – University of Naples “Federico II”. (Submission #88)
- “From Zombie Governance to Infraethics: Shared Semantic Infrastructure as the Operational Bridge Between AI Principles and Decisions.” ; Mario Alejandro Tabares Arango – Corporación Libertad y Democracia (CORLIDE), Medellín, Colombia and Mateo Maya – Corporación Libertad y Democracia (CORLIDE), Medellín, Colombia.(Submission 118)
- “Where is the Evidence? Data Transparency Vs Social Media Opacity.” ; Hugo Leal – University of Cambridge, R. Marie Santini – NetLab UFRJ and Gina Neff University of Cambridge. (Submission 159)