Francesca Bria on why technological sovereignty matters
A talk at UCL IIPP by Francesca Bria
This event is open to IIPP’s students and faculty only
Hosted at UCL IIPP on Wednesday 13th March 2024 from 12:00 - 13:30 (GMT) for a talk by Francesca Bria.
Francesca Bria will discuss the concept of technological sovereignty and its implications for policy and governance.
This brown bag lecture is part of Creative Bureaucracy brown bags on Wednesdays throughout Term 2.
The talk is being organised as an enrichment event as part of an IIPP MPA module led by Prof Rainer Kattel. Students who would like to be notified of other events in the future can sign up by emailing IIPPComms@ucl.ac.uk.
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Francesca has a PhD in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Imperial College, London and MSc on Digital Economy from University of London, Birbeck. As Senior Programme Lead at Nesta, the UK Innovation Agency, she has led the EU D-CENT project, the biggest European Project on digital democracy and digital currencies.
She also led the DSI project on Digital Social Innovation in Europe, advising the EU on digital social innovation policies. She has been teaching in several universities in the UK an