Dr. Sangeeta Mahapatra

This paper incorporates cognitive resilience into cyber defence against hybrid threats. Drawing on insights from South and Southeast Asia, it outlines avenues for cooperation with Germany and introduces the TRUST Framework to strengthen soft power, citizen trust, and overall societal resilience.

Nationale Prioritäten überwiegen zunehmend gegenüber Versuchen einer globalen Regulierung von Künstlicher Intelligenz. Um ihren regulatorischen Einfluss weiterhin geltend zu machen, muss die Europäische Union ihre eigenen Kapazitäten stärken und internationale Partnerschaften ausbauen.

The 2025 Paris AI Summit marked a shift from global to national AI strategies. This paper explores India’s and Singapore’s AI governance, offering insights for the EU, with a focus on Germany, on cooperating with these emerging AI powers to advance ethical, sustainable AI.

This chapter examines multi-platform and multi-discourse political messaging during the 2019 Indian General Elections by India's two largest political parties. It demonstrates how multi-platform partisan messaging enables certain discursive and leadership styles for voter outreach and mobilization.

'In Focus' Interview with The Hindu on different forms of content moderation, factors that influence it, and comparing different legal frameworks across the world on regulating content moderation and how this impacts state-platform-civil society power dynamics and relations. Also available on Spotify.

Mass surveillance in public transport systems, touted for safety of passengers, can violate their rights when intrusive AI-enabled Facial Recognition Technology is used. India is deploying such tech in large scale. Dr. Sangeeta Mahapatra comments on the risks and suggests a countermeasure in this article.

Organisation: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung e.V. Dr. Sangeeta Mahapatra (Vortragende:r)

Invited Speaker at the Panel on defending threats to democracies in Europe from hybrid threats including information and cognitive warfare and building defence and deterrence capabilities to deal with new-age threats and challenges to democracy from autocratic regimes.

Organisation: Europäischer Verband der Entwicklungsforschungs- und Ausbildungsinstitutionen (EADI) Dr. Sangeeta Mahapatra (Vortragende:r)

Invited speaker at EADI's Jubilee Event discussing 'From worldwide democratisation to democratic recession and geopolitical conflicts:
what do development researchers have to say?'