Prof. Igor Calzada has published a new peer-reviewed article titled “The Political Economy of Web3 Platformization: Innovation Systems, Reaching the Moon, Governing the Ghetto” in Digital (MDPI), 2025, Vol. 5, Issue 4, Article 62 (https://doi.org/10.3390/digital5040062). The article investigates how Web3 decentralization unfolds in practice and assesses...

ssrn-5660050Download Posted on: November 2025By: Prof. Dr. Igor Calzada, MBA, FeRSADOI: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5660050 Co-author: Itziar Eizaguirre (Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa)Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Agentic AI (ICA 2025), Wuhan, China, 5–7 December 2025 Overview The Basque Country is emerging as a laboratory for anticipatory AI governance, where innovation...

On 30–31 October 2025, Prof. Igor Calzada participated in the 2nd International Conference on Digital Sovereignty (ICDS 2025), held at the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) in Oslo, Norway. Acting both as session chair and presenter of two papers, Calzada contributed to a high-level dialogue...

On 27 October 2025, Prof. Igor Calzada delivered an invited talk at the Global Innovation Coop Summit (GICS) 2025, held in Torres Vedras, Portugal, within Workshop 2.3 dedicated to “Building a Global Cooperative Network in the Age of AI.” His presentation, titled: “Building a Global Cooperative...

Igor Calzada, with European colleagues, has recently co-edited the volume Multidisciplinary Movements in AI and Generative AI: Shaping Technology for Society, Business, and Education, published by Edward Elgar. The book, also discussed in ElgarBlog, brings together contributions that bridge artificial intelligence, economics, governance, and education...

Accepted Paper in Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy Title: Generative AI and the Urban AI Policy Challenges Ahead: Trustworthy for Whom?Journal: Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (Impact Factor: 2.6; CiteScore: 5.0)DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/TG-08-2025-0240Accepted on: 12 October 2025License: CC BY-NC 4.0 This article examines the socio-technical, economic,...