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• Visit to Shiv Nadar University

  Event November 06, 2025

  On 6 November 2025, TECHtonics visited Shiv Nadar University in Delhi NCR to meet with scholars and hold a seminar and roundtable discussion on India’s role in standard-setting and global digital governance. Over the course of travels in India, the team also met with more than 20 standardization experts in Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Topics explored included India’s successes in 5G standard-setting, software (services), and AI, among others, as well as challenges and opportunities for India in international standard-setting. We appreciate the kind support of and thank all parties who met with us and facilitated this round of exchanges in India.

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• Research visit to India

  Event October 17, 2025

  From 17 October until 14 November 2025, the TECHtonics team is visiting India to hold exchanges with scholars, policy experts and industry representatives in Delhi, Mumbai and other places. The purpose of the visit is to learn about and draw lessons from India’s successes in international standardization, in particular in the fields of telecommunications, AI, and software.

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• Exchange with Prof. Heejin Lee from Yonsei University

  Event September 25, 2025

  The TECHtonics team met with Prof. Heejin Lee from Yonsei University, Seoul, to discuss various topics related to international standardization. Prof. Heejin Lee is a scholar of standardization and has published widely on topics, such as development and the geopolitics of standardization in Korea and China. Prof. Lee is visiting Humboldt University of Berlin as Mercator Fellow.

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• Two open positions in the TECHtonics project

  Research September 23, 2025

  The Department of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is hiring two more project researchers (one Postdoc and one PhD candidate), who will join the European Research Council-funded project on “Power, Politics and Contestation in Global Technical Standard-Setting (TECHtonics)”, led by Prof. Dr. Sarah Eaton.

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• The Who and What of Rising Standards Powers

  Presentation June 25, 2025

  On 25 June, we presented a new working paper on the Standardization Participation Database at the Workshop on “The Political Economy of Latecoming in the Digital Era” at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. TECHtonics currently compiles existing and new data on country participation in global technical standard-setting. Based on a first analysis that includes a new dataset on 3GPP leadership, the working paper shows how participation data can facilitate the formulation of empirical research problems and point to opportunities for learning from rising standards powers.

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