Professor Dr Igor Calzada MBA
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Professor Dr Igor Calzada MBA
@icalzada.bsky.social
Prof Calzada's
NEW BOOK!
#DatafiedDemocracies & #AIEconomics Unplugged
(Springer Nature 2025)
https://link.springer.com/book/9783032118875

@UPVEHU @Ikerbasque @USUKFulbright @CardiffUni @UniofOxford @EU_ScienceHub @UN

www.igorcalzada.com/publications
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New paper in #journal #Digital unpacks why #Web3 #decentralization often fails to deliver democratic governance. Table 2 maps variables behind #DAO participation, power concentration, and embedding. Innovation needs institutions.

👉 www.mdpi.com/2673-6470/5/...
December 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
December 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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❓ Key #ResearchQuestions addressed:

(i) How democratic are “decentralized” #Web3 governance systems in practice?

(ii) Under which institutional conditions can technological #decentralization become socially inclusive?

www.mdpi.com/2673-6470/5/... #OpenAccess #OpenScience
November 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Egun on / Good morning 🌅 #Bilbao #BasqueCountry

Gaur #EmergentSovereignties Kongresuan galdetuko dut Euskal Herria #AlgorithmicNation gisara #AI n urratsak ematen ari den nazioarteko #DataSovereignty olatua jarraituz

@RSRS_OA @regstud #OpenAccess

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
🚨NEW ARTICLE OUT!

Decentralizing #AIEconomics for #Poverty Alleviation in #AI #IF 5.0 #CiteScore 6.9

Exploring how #Web3 #DataCooperatives can support fairer AI-driven development in the #GlobalSouth

#Decentralization #AI #SDGs #ActionResearch

www.mdpi.com/2673-2688/6/...
November 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
My article “Decentralizing #AIEconomics for #Poverty Alleviation” has been accepted in #AI #journal#IF 5.0, #CiteScore 6.9.

Exploring how #Web3, #DataCooperatives, and new governance models can support fairer AI-driven development in the #GlobalSouth.

#StayTuned #Forthcoming
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
📘 It’s #online!

#Multidisciplinary Movements in #AI and #GenAI is now available via
@elgarpublishing.bsky.social

elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

This #book examines how AI and GenAI is currently reshaping society, business, and education
November 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
My article “The #PoliticalEconomy of #Web3 Platformization: Innovation Systems, Reaching the Moon, Governing the Ghetto” has been accepted in the journal #Digital

It examines how Web3 gov actually works—why technical #decentralization alone doesn’t ensure democracy. Institutions matter.
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
November 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Intense week as an 🇪🇺 #Expert #Reviewer for #HorizonEurope #Mission proposals — witnessing how collective intelligence, creativity & integrity drive Europe’s #science, #innovation & #sustainability agendas. #EUResearch #SciencePolicy #MissionInnovation
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
New article in #OpenAccess, soon published in #TGPPP journal 🧭

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... via @ssrn.bsky.social

“#GenerativeAI & the #UrbanAI #Policy Challenges Ahead: Trustworthy for Whom?”

Trustworthy #AI isn’t technical—it’s democratic, institutional, and civic.

#PublicPolicy #AIGov
November 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
#AAG2026 We're extremely glad to have convened an outstanding line-up of speakers around #Anticipatory #AI #Governance coming from #Brazil #Japan #Australia #USA #Germany so far, if you wanted join us, please contact asap [email protected] #LastCall
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
November 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
✈️ After arriving from #Portugal’s Global Innovation Coop Summit on #DataCooperatives & #Oslo’s #ICDS2025 on #DigitalSovereignty, thrilled to be setting up an fabs line-up for our #AAG2026 session at the @geographers.bsky.social Annual Meeting in #SanFrancisco 🌉
November 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Honoured to speak at #WorldCitiesDay2025 #WorldCitiesDay Webinar 2025 (31 Oct, 8:00 CET).
🎙️ People-Centred Smart Cities: #AIEconomics | #DigitalInclusion | #DataSovereignty
Based on my forthcoming #book #AIEconomics lnkd.in/dZ8jeaX3

Registration lnkd.in/digyyMMq
October 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Building a Global Cooperative Network in the Age of #AI 🌍🤖

At #GICS2025 in #TorresVedras, I will explore in my talk #DataCooperatives and its related issues in the age of #GenAI. Nice to coproduce in action with @en.mondragon.coop former colleagues

#DigitalSovereignty #Cooperatives
October 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
October 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
📘 Delighted to announce my new #book via @springernature.com:

Datafied Democracies & #AIEconomics Unplugged

It explores how AI Economics, #DataSovereignty, and #Decentralisation are reshaping #democracy, #innovation and #governance in datafied societies

🔗 link.springer.com/book/9783032...
October 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
🔓 #OpenScience in Action! Our article “ #DigitalInclusion & #UrbanAI” is now freely available via @ehu.eus #ADDI & @springernature.com journal #DiscoverCities

Knowledge equity through #OpenAccess matters—read, reuse & cite!

➡️ addi.ehu.eus/handle/10810...

#OpenScience #UrbanAI
October 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM