27 Jul Prof Calzada has received the Best Paper Award at Rii2025, held at the UOC in Barcelona in April 2025

Igor Calzada has recently received the Best Paper Award at the Research and Innovation Forum 2025 (Rii2025), held at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona. The award recognizes the impact and quality of a scholarly contribution that has already been accepted and published in several leading international journals and academic outlets. Specifically, the awarded paper has been published in Future Internet (MDPI) link, Data & Policy (Cambridge University Press), and is forthcoming in the Springer Nature volume for Rii2026 link.

The recognition highlights the relevance of his research at the intersection of digital governance, data sovereignty, and the political economy of Web3 and Generative AI, contributing to critical debates around decentralization, democratic innovation, and global digital transitions.