Digital Watch Observatory - Digital Governance in 50+ issues, 500+ actors, 5+ processes
AI should complement human skills rather than replace them, even as many roles face significant transformation.
The miniaturised system produces real-time 3D images and is designed to overcome cost, size, and staffing barriers linked to traditional ultrasound machines.
Critics argue agentic AI claims overstate what MoltBook actually demonstrates.
Users in China must prove harm from AI hallucinations.
Experts flagged Moltbook’s lack of safeguards, warning that exposed AI agents could lead to credential theft, data exfiltration, and operational risks across corporate systems.
The government allows Grok back online but maintains tight oversight, stressing that Indonesia's safety failures will lead to renewed blocking.
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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.