• 2nd Workshop on Energy Neutral and Sustainable IoT Devices and Infrastructure MON 22-Sep-2025; KU Leuven

    Scope and background There are billions of IoT devices worldwide, and this number is set to skyrocket in the coming years. Among this vast landscape, ultra-constrained devices are becoming a dominant force, shaping the future of IoT. Given their sheer volume and highly specific applications, these devices must be maintenance-free, self-sustained, affordable, autonomous, and seamlessly…

  • Protecting the Backbone of the Internet

    Podcast Episode by H. Andrew Schwartz and Erin L. MurphyPublished February 24, 2025 CSIS’s Erin Murphy joins the podcast to discuss why subsea cables are so important to global security and how they can impact competition with China. CSIS’s Erin Murphy, deputy director of the CSIS Chair on India and Emerging Asia Economics, joins the…

  • Fab City Roundtable: Metrics & Open-Source Innovation for Impact

    What does it really mean to measure impact in ways that matter to people and the planet? In this roundtable, we dive deep into how ethical data practices and open-source tools can help reshape the way cities measure and create social impact. We explore new approaches to metrics that go beyond GDP and financial indicators—looking…

  • Digital Sovereignty and Payments (Chapter 5) – Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries

    Source By Venkatesh Hariharan and Sarayu Natarajan In early 2014, the United States imposed economic sanctions prohibiting the export of American goods to Russia (Borger, Lewis, & Mason, 2014). MasterCard and Visa, credit card providers, rushed to comply, leaving millions of Russians without access to their credit accounts and several hundred billion dollars of assets frozen (BBC, 2014).…

  • Survey: Societal acceptance of AI, Internet of Things and Cloud solutions

    The aim of the CoGNETs project is to empower IoT, Edge, and Cloud devices to autonomously organize into dynamic, adaptable swarm continuums for optimal data processing and seamless service provisioning across diverse and evolving technological environments. While existing AI technologies provide tools for running AI on IoT and resource-constrained devices, they often lack the capabilities…

  • Digital Sovereignty and AI: Developing India’s National AI Stack for Strategic Autonomy

    India’s pursuit of digital sovereignty has gained urgency as global dependencies in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies pose risks to national security, data privacy, and economic independence. This paper presents the concept of a National AI Stack, a comprehensive AI infrastructure tailored to India’s unique socio-economic and technological needs. The National AI Stack aims to reduce…

  • The European Way. A Blueprint for Reclaiming Our Digital Future

    This policy paper is a call for Europe to reclaim its digital future. Directed in particular at the EU Institutions and the new German government, it has three core objectives: (a) to appeal to decision makers to seize the moment and finally mitigate the EU’s excessive and unilateral technology dependencies; (b) to articulate a coherent,…

  • AIOTI Days, 22/23 September 2025, Madrid, Spain 

    AIOTI will organise the annual event this year in Madrid, Spain on 22/23 September. The main programe will consist of about 20 thematic and project session and GIECS. AIOTI Award will also be given to the best proposals of AIOTI members.

  • India Stack 2.0: Using AI to Democratize Access to Tech

    “India’s methodical build of digital public goods, starting with Aadhaar, followed by Jan Dhan (bank accounts for all), and accompanied by affordable mobile connections (courtesy Jio) has led to successes such as the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). The next step in this journey seems likely to be to ensure that India Stack becomes truly transformative…

  • Security must work for everyone

    It is essential that the new security standards do not clash with other rules, such as the European Accessibility Act (EAA), which also applies to many digital consumer products. Forgetting accessibility in security solutions risks creating problems for people with disabilities – and new security threats, says Susanna Laurin, Managing Director and Chair at the…