Digital Watch Observatory - Digital Governance in 50+ issues, 500+ actors, 5+ processes
In this issue, we examine Geneva’s role as a key hub for global AI governance and how it is shaping emerging frameworks. Plus, how the Fable 5 case affects AI regulation, Africa’s global digital diplomacy efforts, and the EU's Technological Sovereignty Package.
AI chatbots would be required to disclose they are not human under the newly passed bill.
The ruling upholds EU findings that Google used its Android dominance to favour its own apps through restrictive pre-installation agreements with device makers.
The new legislation supports Singapore's digital economy by strengthening critical infrastructure security and sustainability.
A new consortium will coordinate cybersecurity education, skills development and industry collaboration across the EU.
The UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI has published its first preliminary report ahead of the inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva. The assessment examines AI's opportunities, risks, and governance challenges, providing an evidence-based foundation for international discussions on the future of AI.
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Women and AI: Reflecting bias or reinforcing inequality?
When AI learns from humanity, it inherits more than knowledge. It also absorbs the biases, assumptions, and inequalities embedded in society.
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FIFA World Cup 2026 faces growing AI and cybersecurity threats
Cybercriminals are targeting fans and organisers throughout the FIFA World Cup 2026.
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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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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.