Recorded 8th May 2025 Digital sovereignty has become an urgent question in contemporary policy debates, due to the way in which digital platforms have become a crucial instrument of influence and infrastructural power. World regions such as Europe and Latin America that - compared to China and the US - have little domestic capacity in key digital technologies such as semiconductors, software, cloud services, and more, are now drafting policies to reclaim control over digital technology. But to what extent are these digital sovereignty agendas realistic given the enormous dominant positions of Big Tech platforms? What should the priorities for countries that want to begin establishing "strategic autonomy" in this field be? What specific indicators, milestones, and goals should policy-makers consider as they push for their countries' digital freedom from pervasive foreign political interference and technological dependence?

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5/14/2025

By Dr Wainaina

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5/22/2024

TBC

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10/29/2021

In this episode of UCL STEaPP Chat: Dr Ellie Cosgrave (Director of Urban Innovation and Policy Lab, Department of Science Technology Engineering and Public Policy) and Dr Tim Moonen (Managing Director of the Business of Cities) chat about the challenges that cities are facing. They discuss how their works support city leaders to manage these challenges and how these works contribute to the training of the future policy makers within STEaPP MPA programme. STEaPP Chat’ is our new format of short chats with researchers, educators, and policy advisors, showcasing the work we do at the Department of Science Technology Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) of University College London (UCL). The 20-30 min long chats will not only demonstrate how academic work ties into the world of policymaking, attempting to improve peoples’ lives, but also shows why we teach what we teach. Join in for future episodes and keep an eye out for ‘STEaPP Chat’.

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5/2/2019

In this episode of STEaPP Chat: Dr Irina Brass and Dr Alex Chung chat to our CryptoKitties from UCL STEaPP: Isabella Manghi, Simon Turner, Zoey Tung and Clementine Blanchier, about their participation in Cyber 9/12 and how they apply their learning from the MPA Programme at the semi-final of the competition. STEaPP Chat’ is our new format of short chats with researchers, educators, and policy advisors, showcasing the work we do at the Department of Science Technology Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) of University College London (UCL). The 20-30 min long chats will not only demonstrate how academic work ties into the world of policymaking, attempting to improve peoples’ lives, but also shows why we teach what we teach. Join in for future episodes and keep an eye out for ‘STEaPP Chat’. You can also follow @UCLSTEaPP @AndyPKopp and @aseatwo on twitter.

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3/7/2019

‘STEaPP Chat’ is our new format of short chats with researchers, educators, and policy advisors, showcasing the work we do at the Department of Science Technology Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) of University College London (UCL). The 20-30 min long chats will not only demonstrate how academic work ties into the world of policymaking, attempting to improve peoples’ lives, but also shows why we teach what we teach. This special edition is recorded outside the Houses of Parliament. Alan Seatwo talks to Professor Jeremy Watson CBE, Director of the PETRAS Hub and Professor of Engineering Systems at UCL about the works of PETRAS and their impacts. Join in for future episodes and keep an eye out for ‘STEaPP Chat’. You can also follow @UCLSTEaPP @PETRASiot @AndyPKopp and @aseatwo on twitter. Sources of images: • PETRAS • Pixabay

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2/18/2019

‘STEaPP Chat’ is our new format of short chats with researchers, educators, and policy advisors, showcasing the work we do at the Department of Science Technology Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) of University College London (UCL). The 20-30 min long chats will not only demonstrate how academic work ties into the world of policymaking, attempting to improve peoples’ lives, but also shows why we teach what we teach. In this episode, our host Andreas Kopp talks to Florence Greatrix (Policy Advisor), Prof. Arthur Petersen (Prof. of Science, Technology, and Public Policy) & Dr Chris Tyler (Director of Public Policy) about the way Science Advice works in practice. They also reflect on how we link research to higher education and policy works in STEaPP. Join in for future episodes and keep an eye out for ‘STEaPP Chat’. You can also follow @UCLSTEaPP @flo_greatrix @cptyler @ArthurCPetersen @AndyPKopp and @aseatwo on twitter. The video is available in three video streaming platforms: •

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1/17/2019

‘STEaPP Chat’ is our new format of short chats with researchers, educators, and policy advisors, showcasing the work we do at the Department of Science Technology Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) of University College London (UCL). The 20-30 min long chats will not only demonstrate how academic work ties into the world of policymaking, attempting to improve peoples’ lives, but also shows why we teach what we teach. Episode 1 of 'STEaPP Chat' hosted by Andreas and featuring Yacob Mulugetta, Professor of Energy and Development Policy at STEaPP, discusses network infrastructures for essential services in the development context.

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11/2/2018