China

​The NORM project aims at finding out how China’s Digital Silk Road shapes the digital world order and its norms, and the agency that recipient developing countries exercise in response. This is one out of five PRIO projects that today have received funding from the Research Council of Norway.

​How is e-governance and the Internet of Things (IoT) changing the everyday lives of the people of India and China, and how are these multifaceted changes affecting international relations?

Congratulations to Åshild Kolås, who will lead the project e-Topia: China, India and Biometric Borders, which has now received 4-year funding from the Foreign Policy programme of the Research Council of Norway. Congratulations also to project participant Mareile Kaufmann, as well as partners in Asia; Centre for Internet and Society, Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, Hezhou University and Digital Asia Hub.

​​​​Reclaiming the Forest: The Ewenki Reindeer Herders of Aoluguya

Much has been made of China´s two-decade-long post-Socialist economic transformation, its implications for political reform, and its role in China's emergence as an increasingly credible and proactive player in global and regional politics.  Yet, just beneath the surfaces of this Chinese renaissance resides a host of conflicting challenges.