Digital Watch Observatory - Digital Governance in 50+ issues, 500+ actors, 5+ processes
The media copyright bill could require AI apps, search engines and platforms to pay for article snippets.
A European consortium of 19 organisations has launched SHIELD-6G, a Horizon Europe-funded project focused on developing cybersecurity technologies for future 6G networks. The initiative will explore AI-based threat detection, automated response mechanisms, federated learning, and digital twin technologies to support the security and resilience of next-generation connectivity infrastructure.
Employment-focused AI projects expanded through UNESCO programmes in East Africa.
Planning authorities across England are adopting AI tools designed to digitise documents, save time and improve decision-making efficiency in local governance.
The investigation's findings will be shared with the European Commission to support Digital Markets Act enforcement.
The CJEU clarified when Member States may impose age verification obligations on online services.
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The future of agentic AI: A cross-regulatory perspective from the UK
Agentic AI systems that can plan, decide and act autonomously across platforms simultaneously trigger obligations under data protection, competition, financial services and online safety law, exposing gaps that sector-based regulation was not built to address.
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The EU's Tech Sovereignty Package and the future of European digital power
Four interconnected measures, including two new laws, could fundamentally reshape how Europe invests in, deploys, and governs the semiconductors, cloud infrastructure and software its economy depends on.
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Europe’s digital crossroads: Key takeaways from CPDP 2026
At CPDP 2026, privacy and data protection remained at the heart of Europe’s digital policy debates, but AI governance, digital sovereignty, and online child protection emerged as increasingly prominent themes.
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WSIS+20 Process
The year 2025 marks 20 years since the finalisation of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), and a review process looking at 20 years of WSIS outcomes implementation will conclude with a high-level meeting at the UN General Assembly (UNGA), in December. This page keeps track of the process leading to the UNGA meeting in December 2025. It also provides background information about WSIS and related activities and processes since 1998.
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Digital Technologies
From internet applications to quantum computing, we focus on advanced and emerging digital technologies which are increasingly reshaping our economies and societies.
Clusters of Policy topics
We unpack digital policy by exploring over 50 topics – from access and sustainable development to network security and the future of work – classified in 7 clusters.
Processes
Follow some of the most important digital policy processes, from the EU's work on the Digital Services Act/Digital Markets Act to the UN Cybercrime Ad Hoc Committee.