Interdisciplinary research, policy, and advocacy across four dimensions of digital sovereignty:

1

INDIVIDUAL

Personal data rights, digital identity, discrimination, and autonomy

2

ORGANISATIONAL

Corporate accountability, platform governance, and responsible innovation

3

STATE

Regulatory authority, digital jurisdiction, and security frameworks

4

INTERNATIONAL

Cross-border data flows, technical standards, and multilateral cooperation

We examine how emerging technologies—from digital identity systems and digital public infrastructure (DPI) to blockchains and satellite networks—reshape social and political boundaries.

Our mission is to provide evidence-based insights on digital sovereignty challenges, with a particular focus on migration systems and the vulnerable groups navigating them.

PUBLICATIONS

Report

Statelessness and Digital Identity

2025
Bronwen Manby
Article

Technosocial Reproduction and Humanitarian Reason

2025
Margie Cheesman and Claudia Aradau
Article

Keeping people out of camps: biometric technologies, contested sovereignty, and border practices within humanitarian spaces

2025
Keren Weitzberg

Partners

This project is generously funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung.

upcoming events

The Future of Digital Identification in the UK

8 December 2025
8
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London School of Economics

This invite-only workshop unites UK government (DSIT) with leading UK civil society and academic researchers to evaluate the proposed national digital identity scheme.

Biodata, Surveillance and Society

20 November 2025
20
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University of Oslo

Margie is speaking at an event about the implications of biodata - from biometric technologies, synthetic DNA, biobanks and genomic predictions – for the present and future of surveillance and society.

Reimagining Digital Identity: Learning from the South

8 November 2025
8
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Goldsmiths University of London

Margie and Keren will present their research at a one-day symposium on Digital ID in Global South, refugee and UK contexts.