Digital Watch Observatory - Digital Governance in 50+ issues, 500+ actors, 5+ processes
Critics say EU reforms favour major tech firms.
Russia’s latest push to build its own AI systems reveals how deeply the Kremlin now links technological independence with national power.
By combining the Digital Omnibus, Data Union Strategy, and European Business Wallet, the EU aims to save billions and allow businesses to focus on growth instead of red tape.
Consumers across the EU will benefit from strengthened enforcement, digital protections, and cross-border market improvements, while businesses gain clarity and support for compliance instead of facing additional burdens.
A van loaned from Bedfordshire Police supports the live biometric operation in public spaces.
Players will be sorted into age brackets and restricted from chatting across wide age gaps.
Institutional adoption from major financial firms has boosted crypto confidence among affluent young Americans, prompting significant adviser changes and rising digital-asset allocations.
The new AI approach screens millions of vaccine designs, replacing trial-and-error with predictive analysis to speed HIV antibody discovery.
A new WHO assessment highlights uneven AI development across Europe’s health systems and warns that weak safeguards could put patients at risk.
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The future of the EU data protection under the Omnibus Package
The EU data protection law and competitiveness are struggling to work cohesively, according to senior Union leaders. That is why the GDPR and ePD are next on the digital omnibus’ chopping board. With leaked drafts and questionable legal reasoning, all eyes are on 19 November for the Commission’s official proposal.
Analysis
The AI soldier and the ethics of war
AI is transforming warfare from a human-driven struggle into a machine-guided simulation, raising urgent questions about the future of ethics, accountability, and humanity on the battlefield.
Analysis
The rise of large language models and the question of ownership
Balancing open access and corporate ownership of these models will determine whether AI becomes a shared global good or a private monopoly.
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Most transformative decade begins as Kurzweil’s AI vision unfolds
Ray Kurzweil predicted AI would change everything. The 2020s may prove him right.
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Digital Watch newsletter – Issue 104 – October 2025
Issue 104: In our October 2025 issue, we unpacked new rules for children’s online spaces and examined the global struggle to steer AI. We analysed shifting rare-earth supply chains and what recent cloud outages reveal about digital resilience. We also looked back at the signing of the UN Cybercrime Convention. We also recapped key Geneva events shaping the future of international digital governance.
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Weekly #238 Strengthening democracy in the digital age: The EU’s New ‘Democracy Shield’
Plus, highlights from the WSIS+20 Rev 1 document, the EU’s revised Chat Control proposal, an EU-UK-Australia alliance on protecting children online, NYT vs OpenAI, and a look at the week ahead.
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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.