“The Berkman Klein Center’s latest Research Sprint, co-hosted with Digital Asia Hub, explored digital self-determination, a multi-faceted concept that includes ownership and agency over one’s data, and what it means cross-culturally and through various lenses, including for example how digital self-determination can and should play out in areas such as health, the gig economy, and the information economy. The program is part of an ongoing collaboration with the Global Network of Internet & Society Centers (NoC) to advance dialogue and action at the intersection of science, politics, digital economy, and civil society. The Research Sprint invited a cohort of 25 students participating from 21 different countries and six continents, to create living resources and build out open-access educational materials and information on this area from a broad, global perspective. Through weekly discussions and creative projects including short visual documents on topics, presentations, podcasts, and videos, they evolved their understanding of the term — and used what they learned to help set the stage for future work in the area…”