Digital Watch Observatory - Digital Governance in 50+ issues, 500+ actors, 5+ processes
Plus, the EU-USA critical minerals alliance for the technological future, Europe’s growing age-verification push for platform use, Australia reshaping news bargaining rules, the latest in AI governance and a look at the week ahead in Geneva.
Google has added direct file creation to Gemini, allowing users to download or export structured outputs to Drive.
EU member states are being urged to speed up age verification deployment through standalone apps or digital wallets.
Concerns are rising over AI transparency gaps in advertising systems, with risks including fraud, inefficiency and weakening trust in digital platforms and media environments.
Enforcement gaps in Croatia's Digital Services Act implementation trigger new EU action.
A national strategy that highlights China's AI growth, safety controls and international collaboration in digital transformation
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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.