Digital Watch Observatory - Digital Governance in 50+ issues, 500+ actors, 5+ processes
Investments in digital skills, research infrastructure and global partnerships underpin Australia’s ambition to become a regional hub for AI innovation.
Planned sites are growing larger, with many expected to surpass 500 megawatts.
Shadow AI is quietly reshaping diplomatic work in ways that threaten confidentiality, weaken strategic thinking, and expose the inner workings of foreign ministries to forces far beyond their control.
Brussels hosted the second EU–Singapore Digital Partnership Council, confirming shared priorities in AI, cyber resilience, digital identity systems and semiconductor research.
A new EU assessment confirms Italy’s progress, enabling a further payment under the Recovery and Resilience Facility to strengthen education, digital capacity and strategic national reforms.
Findings indicate that creative phrasing can undermine AI filtering methods, with several prominent models generating harmful content when faced with short poetic prompts.
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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.