Digital Watch Observatory - Digital Governance in 50+ issues, 500+ actors, 5+ processes
Experts warn of gaps in the EU's regulation of AI chatbots.
Talks with Switzerland focus on AI cooperation and policy.
Developers aim to ease power constraints for data centres.
Talent shortages and investment gaps slow AI progress.
Fluent language removes a key defence against fraud.
Wireless sensing advances could boost logistics and smart homes, providing privacy-friendly alternatives to cameras while improving machine perception of hidden spaces.
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Advancing global digital cooperation and AI innovation across the UN system
Rapidly evolving digital technologies and AI are driving global development and cooperation, as the United Nations initiatives combine policy frameworks, international collaboration and practical applications to promote inclusion, humanitarian support, and sustainable progress.
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Anthropic’s Pentagon dispute and military AI governance in 2026
Military AI is moving from theory to practice, and Anthropic’s Pentagon dispute shows how contested its limits have become.
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AI ethics as societal infrastructure in the digital era
Balancing technological progress with societal values is essential, ensuring that intelligent technologies align with society and remain guided by AI ethics.
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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.