1st Edition

Governing Digital Public Infrastructure Innovation, Inclusion and Societal Progress in the Age of AI

By Stergios Aidinlis Copyright 2026
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores how digital public infrastructures (DPI) should be governed in the public interest, harnessing their potential to drive innovation, inclusion, and societal progress in the age of supercomputers and generative AI. DPI – from hardware and software to data and networks – are becoming increasingly critical to our economy, society, and daily lives. As the AI revolution unfolds,... Read more

1. Introduction

2. DPI and the Public Interest

3. The Laws of DPI

4. Access to Compute for the Public Interest: Evolution

5. Supercomputers, AI and the Public Interest

6. The Internet as DPI

7. Shared Software Infrastructure as DPI

8. Data as DPI

9. The Future of DPI and its Governance

 

Biography

Stergios Aidinlis is an Associate Professor in AI Law at Durham Law School. At Durham, he is acting as the University's lead researcher in three multidisciplinary projects in law and AI funded by InnovateUK, Horizon Europe and the British Academy. He is also creating bespoke teaching materials and teaching core undergraduate (public law) and specialist undergraduate and postgraduate (AI law) modules, as well as conducting research on the regulation of law and AI.