Katja BegoNov 19, 202015 minThe great unwinding: Charting post-COVID futures for the internetRepost May 2020: The world has perhaps never been more globalised than under this current lockdown. For billions, the internet – in many...
Katja BegoNov 19, 20203 min‘Deepfake’ videos get weaponisedRepost from 2018: 2019 will be the year that a malicious ‘deepfake’ video sparks a geopolitical incident, says Katja Bego. [I am...
Katja BegoNov 19, 202017 minTen challenges for the internetRepost 2018: In this blog, I introduce the ten key topics that form the basis for my vision for a more inclusive, democratic and...
Katja BegoNov 18, 20204 minThe SplinternetRepost from 2016: 2016 was a year dominated by seismic political events around the globe, shaking the democratic underpinnings of our...
Katja BegoNov 18, 202010 minThe end of the web: get ready for the splinternetRepost from 2017: With the global order fragmenting, cyber-security threats on the rise, and the deluge of information becoming...
Katja BegoNov 15, 20206 minWhen will we finally see another woman win a Nobel Prize in economics?Repost from 2016: Women are notoriously underrepresented among Nobel laureates - particularly in the field of economics. What explains...
Katja BegoNov 14, 20208 minCrawling the dark web: the economics of online drug markets[Post from Oct, 2015] Research into anonymous drug trades shines a light on a second generation of dark web cryptomarkets.