Digital Watch Observatory - Digital Governance in 50+ issues, 500+ actors, 5+ processes
Faulty metadata from ClickHouse updates pushed Cloudflare's software beyond its limits.
The AI Data Platform designed by NVIDIA offers a unified approach for managing unstructured data, enabling enterprises to activate AI agents with secure, current and reliable information.
Users will soon access Intuit financial tools inside ChatGPT, gaining tailored credit guidance, tax insights and real time business support powered by OpenAI frontier models.
Services returned after Cloudflare resolved a platform-wide malfunction.
New ITU data shows that while global internet access is increasing, key divides in speed, affordability and digital skills remain strong, especially in low-income countries.
Gemini 3 introduces a major advance in reasoning and multimodal understanding, giving users stronger learning support and developers more autonomous tools through Google’s expanding agentic ecosystem.
Users can soon control how much AI-generated content appears in their feeds, supported by watermarking, C2PA credentials, and improved AIGC labelling on TikTok.
Dartmouth research shows AI can mimic human survey responses so accurately that only a few synthetic answers could flip national poll predictions and evade all detection methods.
The launch of Zand AED marks a significant step for the UAE, providing regulated digital infrastructure for payments, tokenisation, and cross-border settlement.
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The AI soldier and the ethics of war
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The rise of large language models and the question of ownership
Balancing open access and corporate ownership of these models will determine whether AI becomes a shared global good or a private monopoly.
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Most transformative decade begins as Kurzweil’s AI vision unfolds
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Digital Watch newsletter – Issue 104 – October 2025
Issue 104: In our October 2025 issue, we unpacked new rules for children’s online spaces and examined the global struggle to steer AI. We analysed shifting rare-earth supply chains and what recent cloud outages reveal about digital resilience. We also looked back at the signing of the UN Cybercrime Convention. We also recapped key Geneva events shaping the future of international digital governance.
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Weekly #238 Strengthening democracy in the digital age: The EU’s New ‘Democracy Shield’
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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.