Final Roll of Accepted Papers Clearing Review for eCrime 2026 2026 eCRIME POLICY ROUNDTABLES: AI SOVEREIGNTY VERSUS INTERNET GOVERNANCE AI Sovereignty Versus Internet Governance The 2026 eCrime Measurement, Risk and Policy Roundtables will examine how Internet governance is evolving. Specifically, this year’s colloquium will consider how hyperscaled vertically integrated computational infrastructure providers and AI reasoning platforms have evolved into sovereignties in their own right. If you’re coming to this years policy roundtables, please register now here: https://apwg.org/events/ecrime2026#roundtables2026 Within this dialog, delegates will examine how these new and still evolving Internet infrastructure titans are incrementally displacing contemporary Internet-governance frameworks as currently curated by groups like ICANN and ISOC and IGF/UN coordination. Day's agenda follows: 9:30-9:45: Introductions and welcome9:45-10:15 Mapping Infrastructure Authority Migration 10:15-10:45 Public Governance Authority at Risk10:45-11:00 Break11:00-11:30 Evidence, Cybercrime, and Lawful-access Continuity 11:30-12:00 Semantic Authority and Domain-Specific Ontologies12:00-13:00 Lunch 13:00-13:30 EU Regulatory Leverage and Public-interest Compulsion 13:30-14:00 Corporate AI sovereignty compact 14:00-14:30 Coffee, Bites and Wrap up ROUNDTABLES PROGRAM DISCUSSION: Just a quarter century ago, the Internet's institutional architecture was programmatically distributed among constituencies representing different technical operations, technical standards, commercial interests and governance perspectives, embodied by organizations such as: ICANN; Registries and Registrars; IETF; RIRs; ISPs; and telcos. This multi-stakeholder model was itself, in part, a rejection of the national sovereignty/licensing model framed by the ITU and its suzerainty over telecommunications operating frameworks like SS7. In 2026, today’s Internet governance model is being challenged by the operationalhegemony of integrated digital infrastructure platforms (e.g. AWS, Microsoft, Alphabet/Google, Oracle); Internet intermediation services providers (Cloudflare, Akamai); and AI reasoning platforms (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) as these hyperscaled Internet infrastructure powers exercise their own separate sovereignty over compute infrastructure, network mediation, AI reasoning, and enterprise operations, becoming constitutional actors in their own right. The 2026 eCrime policy roundtable session will ask: Does this shift in the powers commanding authority over so many data logistics and archival functions, including content, communications, compute, identity, personal information, code, (end-user) devices, and so on require a civilization-level response? Do these transformations of anti-cybercrime enforcement power, evidentiary authority, and operational data-access necessitate prescriptive domain-specific (e.g. DNS; SS7; AI guardrails) ameliorative policy engagements? And, if so, what would those entail—and which political and diplomatic venues would develop and curate those updated policies? The eCrime symposium has been holding our policy roundtable every year at the conclusion of eCrime since 2024. Our first year was hosted at the Fletcher School of Government and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Last year, CAIDA at San Diego Supercomputer Center was our host. These eCrime Measurement, Risk and Policy Roundtables are APWG eCrime’s attempt to measure the gap between cybercrime’s advances and the policy infrastructure (public and private sectors both) that is required to manage contemporary cyber threats like other kinds of persistent, civilization wide risks such as those related to public health, underwriting risks, etc. This link provides full draft prospectus in PDF format, for viewing and printing: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sathxm1skFyj0OczZbm36mUedxzS237r/view Details follow for ticketing, accommodation and other vital delegate details for your attention before you attend eCrime 2026: TICKETING for eCrime 2026 Lisbon Researchers, students, post-docs, government personnel and NGO personnel can reserve their complimentary tickets today at apwg.org/events/ecrime2026 (http://apwg.org/events/ecrime2026) Directions follow. This year’s discounts codes for these cohorts are as follows: Researchers & post-docs / researchers-2026 / 35 percent discount Students / students-2026 / 50 percent discount NGOs personnel / ngos-2026 / 35 percent discount Government Employees / government-employees-2026 / 35 percent discount To register for complimentary tickets, please pull up the the conference notes page at https://apwg.org/events/ecrime2026 (http://apwg.org/events/ecrime2026) and click on the green button marked ‘’Get Tickets’’, taking care to use the (-/+) toggle to add the number of tickets you’re acquiring if you need more than the (1) default. This will bring you to the ticket cart console where you will enter the appropriate discount ticket code in the ‘’Enter Discount Code’’ data field and press ‘’Apply’’ — which will register your discount. Press ‘’Go to Checkout’’ to complete your details on the Ticket Registration page. Once the details are entered, please press the ‘’Complete Registration’’ button to finish and close out your ticketing session and to ship your receipt. Questions and assistance request can be directed to: ecrime2026@apwg.org (mailto:ecrime2026@apwg.org?subject=APWG%20eCrime%202026%20Help) eCrime 2026 Delegates’ Accommodations: InterContinental Lisbon (https://book.passkey.com/event/51199882/owner/14293470/home) (https://book.passkey.com/event/51199882/owner/14293470/home) READ CAREFULLY BEFORE RESERVING: There is no deadline for reservations this year at conference venue, InterContinental Lisbon (https://book.passkey.com/event/51199882/owner/14293470/home). All changes to reservations (e.g. arrival date, departure date, etc.) can, however, incur charges or penalties. 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