Digital Watch Observatory - Digital Governance in 50+ issues, 500+ actors, 5+ processes
Digital growth outpaces job quality, WEF warns, urging labour protections and balanced reforms for gig and platform workers.
Researchers unveil AI tool that forecasts cancer, diabetes, and heart disease more than a decade before diagnosis.
The AI competed live and remotely, finishing problems faster than most human teams while adhering to official ICPC rules.
National AI Office to coordinate Ireland's compliance with EU AI Act as enforcement ramps up across member states.
Workforce training is central to the plan, with NVIDIA, techUK and QA launching skills programmes to prepare developers and researchers for the AI industrial revolution.
Regulatory clarity improves as exchanges can now list commodity-based trust shares without separate SEC rule changes.
Analysts believe smart glasses could succeed where the Metaverse failed, but warn Meta must prove the benefits of AI wearables instead of relying on hype.
Regulators say X may be in breach of Japan’s online safety law by forcing non-users to register before requesting the removal of harmful or defamatory posts.
Council leader Stephen Cowan defended the facial recognition rollout as a way to strengthen evidence for prosecutions instead of leaving offenders unpunished under a weakened justice system.
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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.