Peter Cowhey's Lecture at the Center for Design and Geopolitic's Conference
Peter Cowhey at Designing Geopolitics 2
06/13/2012
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Dean Peter Cowhey delivered a lecture titled, "Clouded Futures and Sovereign Sunshines," at the Second Annual Conference at the Center for Design and Geopolitic's Conference on June 2, 2012.
Planetary-scale computation presents critical challenges to global political institutions and how they inscribe and defend monopolies of jurisdiction. Is the Cloud a new territory and, if so, what is the role of the State to govern it? Should we anticipate a new kind of geopolitical relationship between physical and virtual territories, and what kinds of protocols of individual and collective citizenship, linking data to identity across borders or within them, should ensue? In what ways does the geopolitics of big data clarify and amplify familiar tensions across the Pacific and in what ways does it suggest as yet unforeseen realignments?
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Peter Cowhey is Dean at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. He is also the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Communications and Technology Policy. Dean Cowhey can provide commentary on U.S. trade policy, foreign policy, the future of communications and information technology markets and policy, the internet, biological threats, international corporate strategy, and the microfinance industry to alleviate poverty.
