However, the digital governance models of the US, China and Europe are likely to shape the parameters of norms and characteristics of the digital domain in the region. [...] This occasional paper briefly explores the digital technology environments of each of these players before proceeding to focus on the ways in which they hope to shape the geopolitical landscape.12 The US model: Move fast and break things In Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Shoshana Zuboff meticulously documents the evolution of the surveillance-ca. [...] In September 2021 the EU–US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) met for the first time to strengthen transatlantic partnerships and alignment in the digital transformation of the EU and the US. [...] The framework covers important ground in clarifying the guiding principles for the treatment of data, which is a critical requirement for the implementation of the DSM.60 These two policy documents and others such as the AU Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ Declaration of Principles of Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa signify growing agreement on the broad principle. [...] It also underscores the contention that the question of digital sovereignty turns on the control of data within the territories where it is generated, and, critically, the nature of the infrastructure that captures and processes the data within these territories.
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