Internet Governance Researcher and Policy Analyst
Joined on January 8, 2024
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Imad al-Din Payande is a researcher and policy analyst focusing on internet governance. He has been studying the intersection of internet governance and the digital economy in Iran for the past five years. His work centers on cyber-authoritarianism and explores the dynamics of popular activism in the context of authoritarian IG regimes.
In an Internet governance agenda that treats diversity of addressing issues as the ultimate end at any cost, technology and its end-users are mere means, and much of the work that sustains the Internet is ignored entirely. As a nation, you are free to initiate different regulations, but when you start getting into the world of infrastructure, you are legislating far beyond the nation-state borders. more