Digital Watch Observatory - Digital Governance in 50+ issues, 500+ actors, 5+ processes
The investigation follows EU Commission concerns that Grok may have generated content that could amount to child sexual abuse material, and comes amid wider international scrutiny.
As next-generation networks become the backbone of AI, industry and digital sovereignty strategies, the question is no longer who has 5G, but who can truly harness its full power.
The newly approved patent raises profound questions about who controls a person’s digital presence, and what happens to it when life ends but data remains.
The case raises urgent questions about how universities handle AI suspicions when technology, academic integrity, and disability rights collide.
Twelve-country initiative to scale quantum photonic chip production includes Ireland
Governance and adoption challenges threaten the EU Digital Identity Wallet rollout.
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Moltbook: Inside the experimental AI agent society
The AI agent social network Moltbook is fuelling the hype around autonomous ecosystems while raising security and digital reality concerns.
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AI in practice across the UN system: UN 2.0 AI Expo
The UN 2.0 Data & Digital AI Expo showcased how UN entities are integrating AI into their work to improve data quality, strengthen governance and enhance decision-making across diverse operational areas.
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Deepfake pornography, consent, and power in synthetic media
The rise of AI pornography reveals bigger societal risks, where sexual representation becomes detached from lived experience and consent is reduced to a technical obstacle rather than a social principle.
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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.