Digital Watch Observatory - Digital Governance in 50+ issues, 500+ actors, 5+ processes
Meta must restore access for rival AI assistants while the EU antitrust investigation continues.
Early testing suggests the new models could significantly accelerate software engineering, scientific research, and complex analytical work.
SBOM adoption is advancing, but data quality, skills, and completeness gaps remain, according to ENISA's findings.
The new UNESCO training helps Tanzanian educators promote inclusive digital learning and STEM participation for girls.
Online platforms could face new Ofcom requirements for emergency content moderation.
The InvestAI fund plans to support five AI gigafactories across the European Union.
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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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CBDC: The antithesis of cryptocurrency
Do CBDCs represent the opposite of cryptocurrency, and are we witnessing a deeper philosophical divide over the nature of digital money and control?
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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.