Digital Watch Observatory - Digital Governance in 50+ issues, 500+ actors, 5+ processes
Three overlapping forums in Geneva will bring AI diplomacy, technical ambition, and digital cooperation onto the same stage.
The partnership includes collaboration with Australia’s AI Safety Institute and sharing of AI capability data to improve transparency and risk assessment.
Lawmakers in France push new restrictions on minors’ access to digital platforms.
A new UK initiative by Google helps workers use AI tools to unlock job opportunities.
New policies in California require AI companies to address bias, safety, and transparency risks.
Upcoming mobile networks are expected to become cognitive, with the ability to learn, adapt and make autonomous decisions in real time.
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Edge AI advantages and challenges shaping the future of digital systems
Cybersecurity strategies must evolve as edge AI transforms how risks emerge and spread.
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Advancing global digital cooperation and AI innovation across the UN system
Rapidly evolving digital technologies and AI are driving global development and cooperation, as the United Nations initiatives combine policy frameworks, international collaboration and practical applications to promote inclusion, humanitarian support, and sustainable progress.
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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.