Professor Dr Igor Calzada MBA
@icalzada
Prof Calzada's NEW BOOK! #DatafiedDemocracies & #AIEconomics Unplugged (Springer Nature 2025) @UPVEHU @Ikerbasque @USUKFulbright @CardiffUni @UniofOxford @EU_ScienceHub @UN www.igorcalzada.com/publications
🌐 New Publication OUT “#DataSovereignties in the #GenAI Economics” examines Big Tech data-opolies and explores #datacooperatives and digital commons as alternatives for trustworthy digital infrastructures. doi.org/10.1007/978-... #OpenAccess papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
New #publication on Human– #AI Governance and digital sovereignty in the Basque healthcare system. #GenAI should augment—not replace—human expertise, supported by #LivingLabs and democratic data governance. #OpenAccess papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #TrustworthyAI #DigitalHealth
Honoured to have contributed as one of the #experts to the @ec.europa.eu's #FrontierAI Expert Forum Pleased to see the publication of the report Enhancing #Competitiveness #Sovereignty #Security Report: digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/a... #AI #AIGovernance #EU #BasqueCountry
🚀 New #Publication in #OpenAccess! Anticipatory #AI #Governance framework for #DigitalInclusion, based on #Science4Policy #ActionResearch project within #Gipuzkoa #BasqueCountry www.elspub.com/doi/10.55092... #OpenScience #AIGovernance #ResponsibleAI #PublicInnovation #GovTech
As #AI becomes embedded in public governance—and supercomputing expands computational capacity—the challenge is no longer only regulating algorithms. It is about governing the infrastructures that shape public value 🔗 doi.org/10.3390/bdcc... #Supercomputing #QuantumComputing
📢 New #Publication OUT! Our latest #OpenAccess article now available #Q1 Anticipatory #AI Governance in the Age of #Supercomputing: A #MixedMethods Multistakeholder Approach in the #BasqueCountry How can public institutions govern AI proactively? www.mdpi.com/2504-2289/10...
Digital Infrastructures for #Democracy via #Data4Policy #event 20th July www.linkedin.com/events/dfpfi...
📍 Tomorrow in #Gothenburg #Sweden at #RSA26, we will present: "Anticipating Regional Futures? The Promises, Prospects and Pitfalls of the #BasqueModel" #Preprint: ssrn.com/abstract=527... #RegionalStudies #Polycrisis #AnticipatoryGovernance #BasqueCountry
📢 Accepted in Law, Ethics & Technology #Scopus! Our article explores how subnational governments can operationalize anticipatory #AIGovernance to advance #DigitalInclusion while safeguarding human rights. 📖 #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #BasqueCountry
#WorldEnvironmentDay #EcoTechnoPolitics: Disarming #AI www.deia.eus/opinion/2026... www.noticiasdegipuzkoa.eus/opinion/2026... www.noticiasdealava.eus/opinion/2026... @berria.eus www.berria.eus/iritzia/arti... #OpenAccess www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/16... turia.uv.es/index.php/IR... #BasqueCountry
#SpecialIssue on #AI that I coordinated, just been published in International Review of Economic Policy 5 articles: 🔹 Social impact & public governance 🔹 Green-digital transitions 🔹 Employment 🔹 Rural AI 🔹 Smart mobility turia.uv.es/index.php/IR... #OpenAccess #OpenScience
🌍Honoured to deliver #keynote at “ #Cities By and For #Citizens ” #Bilbao #EuskaldunaPalace #Deia @euskoikaskuntza.bsky.social, 10 June Discussing challenges #UrbanAI, #digital #infrastructures, #EcoTechnoPolitics, #governance + #sustainability #Euskadi www.ehu.eus/es/web/depar...
Honoured to have been selected by the @ec.europa.eu as a member of two international high-level #AIAct forums @ehu.eus #AI #EU www.ehu.eus/es/web/depar...
#WelshElections #Senedd2026, I’ll provide #media coverage on @xabierlapitz.bsky.social #Basque #radio. After #WelshLabour dominance, Wales may be entering a structural political transition: #PlaidCymru or #ReformUK are neck-and-neck. #UKpolitics #UK #Wales www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🚨 Last chance! Join us this Monday, April 20. I’ll be sharing insights on governance frameworks shaping #SmartMobility initiatives like @mitpress.bsky.social City Science Lab Gipuzkoa. Let’s expand #ActionResearch & policy agenda from the #BasqueCountry and beyond 🔗 lnkd.in/e-jMwXp5
'Anticipatory #AI Governance within @gipuzkoa.eus #Gipuzkoa: #ActionResearch for a #DigitalInclusion Strategy in the #BasqueCountry' paper already delivered in #AAG2026 @geographers.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #Preprints zenodo.org/records/1891... preprints.org/manuscript/2...
Delighted to contribute to the new #MSc in #PublicEconomics at @ehu.eus, leading the module Public Governance & Management. Focus: digitalisation, #AI governance, institutional capacity and public value. 📌 Pre-registration deadline: 27 March www.ehu.eus/es/web/maste... #AAG2026
La #IA y su impacto en la sociedad vía @diariovascobsky.bsky.social ayer www.diariovasco.com/opinion/igor... @ehu.eus @gipuzkoa.eus #AAG2026 @geographers.bsky.social @usukfulbright.bsky.social
New Article in #DataAndPolicy Journal @universitypress.cambridge.org #Q1: “The Illusion of the #Web3 #Decentralization” Does Web3 really decentralize power — or simply shift it to a new digital elite? #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1017/dap.... #GlobalGovernance #InternetGovernance #DigitalGovernance
Gaur @berria.eus n, #AdimenArtifizialaren Gizarte Inpaktua Gipuzkoan @gipuzkoa.eus rekin elkarlanean @ehu.eus + #Ikerbasque tik zuzentzen ari naizen #AA #AI ren gizarte inpaktua aztergai duen #ActionResearch lehen emaitzak @geographers.bsky.social #AAG2026 www.berria.eus/iritzia/arti...
Attending #AAG2026 in #SanFrancisco? 📘 Join us for #AuthorsMeetCritics on my recent #book Datafied #Democracies & #AI Economics Unplugged @springernature.com 2026). 🗓 Mar 18 | ⏰ 4:10–5:30 PM 📍 Mendocino 1&2, Hotel Nikko | 🔗 link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #DigitalSovereignty #AAG
Our new article in #Societies (2026): #EcoTechnoPolitics: Beyond Digital–Green Twin Transitions Digital infrastructures are ecological. Sustainability is political. Governance must be planetary. Twin transitions aren’t enough. #AIGovernance #PlanetaryThinking
#Forthcoming #SpecialIssue on #AI & #Economic #Policy in the International Review of Economic Policy, commissioned by me as #Editor. AI is not merely technological—it is an economic policy domain. #StayTuned
📄 New paper @ieeexplore.ieee.org @comsoc.bsky.social #AgenticAI “Anticipatory #AI Governance in Practice: #DataSovereignty, #UrbanAI & #TrustworthyAI #GenAI in the #BasqueCountry” ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113... #OpenAccess @ssrn.bsky.social : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #Science4Policy
🌍 New Article OUT! #EcoTechnoPolitics: Towards #PlanetaryThinking Beyond Digital–Green #TwinTransitions We argue digital–green agendas remain siloed & growth-driven. #AI & data infrastructures must be governed as eco–political systems. 🔗 www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/16... #OpenAccess
Pleasure to serve as evaluator at the review meeting in #Rome of the #ai4gov #HorizonEurope project 🇪🇺 Great discussions on AI, public governance & real-world policy impact. Encouraging to see such committed work on AI in the public sector. #AIGovernance #PublicAI
📢 Journal Article Accepted #EcoTechnoPolitics: Towards #PlanetaryThinking Beyond Digital-Green #TwinTransitions #Preprint #OpenAccess #OpenScience #GreenWashing #Datafication www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
Tomorrow I'll be #lectureship on #DigitalRights & #DigitalCitizenship in 5th ed Digital Global Humanities at @munibertsitatea.bsky.social This module is grounded in a research trajectory developed across 4 books on #SmartCities #technopolitics #AI 📚 #ActionResearch→Teaching→Practice
#Forthcoming Grateful to share that my article “#DigitalInfrastructures of #Democracy” has been accepted for @oupacademic.bsky.social #STS Nice being connected again with @ox.ac.uk @oii.ox.ac.uk @ssrn.bsky.social #Abstract #OpenAccess papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #AI #DataGovernance #GenAI
My chapter “The (Dis)Illusion of #Web3 Decentralization for #GlobalGovernance in the Age of #GenAI” is out in @springernature.com Web3 ≠ automatic decentralization. Often, it reshapes power and digital privilege. DOI👉 lnkd.in/eArXzPpd #OpenAccess👉 lnkd.in/dTn3wCVg @ssrn.bsky.social