New Article in #DataAndPolicy Journal #CambridgeUniversityPress #Q1:

“The Illusion of the #Web3 #Decentralization

Does Web3 really decentralize power — or simply shift it to a new digital elite?

#OpenAccess:
https://doi.org/10.1017/dap.2026.10055

#GlobalGovernance #InternetGovernance #DigitalGovernance

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Africa: Somali President Urges UN Security Council Reform At AU Summit: [Shabelle] Addis Ababa -- Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud called for an urgent overhaul of global governance on Monday, demanding a permanent seat for Africa on the UN Security Council during a high-level forum in the Ethiopian capital. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TQzlH9 #Africa #UNReform #GlobalGovernance #Somalia #HassanSheikhMohamud
Africa: General Assembly President Urges Europeans to 'Stand Up' for the UN: [UN News] The President of the United Nations General Assembly appealed on Tuesday for Europe to protect the international rules-based system, defend the truth in the face of fake news and other falsehoods, and support UN reform. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TQtgM8 #UN #UnitedNations #InternationalCooperation #GlobalGovernance #FakeNews

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at World Economic Forum in Davos

At Davos, Mark Carney warns the rules-based order has ruptured, urges middle powers to stop pretending, build shared resilience, and wield values-based realism to confront great-power coercion.

#CanadaForeignPolicy #Davos #democracy #EconomicCoercion #geopolitics #GlobalGovernance #GlobalOrder #GlobalSouth #GreatPowerRivalry #HumanRights #InternationalRelations #MarkCarney #MiddlePowers #Multilateralism #ProgressiveForeignPolicy #RulesBasedOrder #StrategicAutonomy #SustainableDevelopment #TradePolicy #ValuesBasedRealism #WorldEconomicForum https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oCV

My chapter “The (Dis)Illusion of #Web3 Decentralization for #GlobalGovernance in the Age of #GenAI” is out in @springernature_ct

Web3 ≠ automatic decentralization. Often, it reshapes power and digital privilege.

DOI👉https://lnkd.in/eArXzPpd
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Across the globe, views vary about Trump's world vision

Donald Trump is shaping a new world order of empires and coercion, from Venezuela to Greenland and through his newly created "Board of Peace, shattering the post-war global consensus.As the old order crumbles, AFP sought the views of ministers, advisers, lawmakers and military from across the globe.Celso Amorim, chief adviser to Brazil's President Lula Inacio Lula da Silva, described the situation as "a very difficult moment of transition to a new order"."But these periods of transition sometimes lead to terrible consequences," he added.

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Davos isn’t just a conference. It’s where global power synchronizes—setting crisis frames that quietly reshape daily life through pricing, risk, and access. No votes. No laws. Real governance by effect.
#Davos #GlobalGovernance #Power

http://cherokeeschill.com/2026/01/22/davos-informal-governance-elite-coordination/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Horizon Accord | Davos | Informal Governance | Institutional Control | Machine Learning

Davos is framed as dialogue, but it functions as governance by effect—where elite coordination normalizes crisis and quietly reshapes daily life without votes.

Cherokee Schill | Insurance Agent & AI Ethics Researcher

Trump's 'Board of Peace' (60 specially selected countries) & the US exit from over 60 international Organisations has finally ended 'liberal' global governance which had been (in any case) faltering for some time.

In some senses perhaps we should thank Trump for halting the rhetorical game of global politics that has pretended there was a way massive inequality could be ameliorated by international organisations shaped by the powerful?

The Q. is what's next?

#politics #GlobalGovernance