Statecraft and Policymaking in the Age of Digital Twins: Digital Democracy and the Internet of Things

The book argues for balancing centralization and decentralization in a cybernetic framework with human-centric values at its core. Further, it proposes a political framework that aims to develop a next-generation internet for the five hundred million citizens of Europe, one capable of enforcing and promoting digital hegemony while safeguarding the rights and proactive capabilities of said citizens. In closing, the book makes the case for a (6G) phone/hardware wallet built on European chip requirements and platforms and running on its own OS to promote technical European integration on infrastructure, applications, and services. Given its scope, the book will appeal to policymakers and practitioners interested in European digital governance and autonomy, as well as scholars of public administration, public policy, and political science.

The concrete output of the book is an integral part of the IEEE pre-standardisation Group the author has initiated. He is Vice Chair, Sebastian Frey is Chair. The goal of this activity is to initiate standards activities to develop a technical reference architecture framework for an open 6G device ecosystem which provide all the capabilities of current smartphones, together with a fully secure digital wallet, trustworthy AI, and potentially also a router (e.g.for neighborhood hotspots), all enabled from open trusted hardware modules in the devices and using open source applications.