Empowering Digital Sovereignty: Balancing Privacy and Global Connectivity - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9798369391372

Publisher: IGI Global, 2025

Synopsis

As digital infrastructure becomes deeply embedded in every aspect of society, the ability to control data flows, privacy, and digital infrastructure has become a critical issue for governments, organizations, and individuals alike. The rise of global data networks, artificial intelligence, and cross-border digital services presents both opportunities and challenges to national security, personal autonomy, and economic independence. Balancing privacy rights with the need for global connectivity requires rethinking legal frameworks, adopting responsible technological practices, and navigating complex ethical trade-offs. Addressing digital sovereignty is essential to ensuring equitable access, safeguarding democratic values, and maintaining trust in the digital age. Empowering Digital Sovereignty: Balancing Privacy and Global Connectivity examines the complicated aspects of digital sovereignty, focusing on how countries, businesses, and people can keep control of their digital data in a world where everything is becoming digital and data is moving internationally all the time. It delves into the legal frameworks, technological advancements, and ethical dilemmas associated with data privacy and autonomy. Covering topics such as artificial intelligence, network traffic, and synthetic data generation, this book is an excellent resource for policymakers, government officials, IT experts, business leaders, digital industry professionals, academicians, researchers, and more.

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About the Author

Sanjay Misra, a Sr. member of IEEE and ACM Distinguished Lecturer, is a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Energy Technology(IFE), Halden, Norway. Before joining IFE, he was associated with the Computer Science and Communication department of Østfold University College, Halden, Norway, and was a Full Professor (since Jan 2010) of Computer (Software) Engineering at Covenant University (400-500 ranked by THE(2019)) since 2012 yrs. He holds PhD. in Information & Knowledge Engg(Software Engg)from the University of Alcala, Spain & M.Tech.(Software Engg) from MLN National Institute of Tech, India.As per SciVal (SCOPUS- Elsevier) analysis (on 01.12.2021). He has been the most productive researcher (Number 1) in Nigeria since 2017 (in all disciplines), in computer science no 1 in the country & no 2 in the whole of Africa. Total around 700 articles (SCOPUS/WoS) with 500 coauthors worldwide (-150 JCR/SCIE) in the core & appl. area of Software Engineering, Web engineering, Health Informatics, Cybersecurity, Intelligent systems, AI, etc. He has been amongst the top 2% of scientists in the world (published by Standford University) for last 3 years.

Edition details

• Publisher: IGI Global
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798369391372
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 545
• Editor: Misra Sanjay, Kvalvik Petter, Kj Lerbakken Kai Morgan