TY - BOOK AU - Jiang,Min AU - Belli,Luca TI - Digital sovereignty in the BRICS countries: how the Global South and emerging power alliances are reshaping digital governance T2 - Communication, society and politics SN - 9781009531085 (ebook) AV - HM851 .D5444 2025 U1 - 303.48/33 23/eng/20241007 PY - 2025/// CY - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Information technology KW - Government policy KW - BRIC countries KW - Digital media KW - Internet N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Dec 2024); Open Access N2 - In a world where digital development and policymaking are dominated by Silicon Valley tech giants, the BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - play an increasingly important role. With forty percent of the world's population and twenty-five percent of global GDP, these nations possess vast troves of personal data. Yet, their conceptions, narratives, and initiatives of digital sovereignty remain understudied. This volume is the first to explore digital sovereignty from a Global South perspective and offers a forward-looking take on what a world less dependent on Silicon Valley might look like. It brings together excellent analyses of BRICS digital sovereignty issues, from historical imaginaries to up-to-date conceptualizations, e-payment to smart cities, legal analysis to geopolitical assessment. By offering neglected perspectives from the Global South, this book makes important contributions to the digital sovereignty debate. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009531085 ER -