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Digital Societies

Our priorities

Our work aims to support just and inclusive digital futures. We prioritise attention to human rights and inclusion in the design, use, regulation and study of digital technologies. This means looking globally at how digitalisation plays out in different contexts and among marginalised groups. This also means working collaboratively, bringing together diverse stakeholders – activists, policymakers and private actors – to better understand one another’s perspectives, and collectively devise just, inclusive and forward-looking solutions to the challenges facing our increasingly digital societies.

Trust and dis/misinformation in the digital public sphere

Censorship, surveillance and freedom of expression

Digital rights, justice and equality

Digitalisation in conflict-affected and fragile contexts

  1. BudgetByte #4 – Can innovative EMIS platforms improve education spending?

    Event

  2. Digital Public Finance - top trends in March and April 2024

    Insight

  3. On lipstick, social media and the performativity of UK aid

    Expert comment

  4. Our Digital Age and the Exercise and Contestation of Power

    Briefing/policy paper

  5. Nigeria: Impacts of Naira redesign on livelihoods in Hayin Ade and Wuro Bappate

    Briefing/policy paper

  6. Digital public finance: top trends in December 2023 and January 2024

    Expert comment

  7. Think Change episode 39: how can AI become a force for social good?

    Podcast

  8. BudgetByte #3: Can governments make digital payments to citizens 'smarter'?

    Event

  9. Has AI ushered in an existential crisis of trust in democracy?

    Expert comment

  10. Digital public finance: top trends in November 2023

    Expert comment

  11. BudgetByte #2: What did we learn from our second Hub webinar?

    Expert comment

  12. Digital public finance: top trends in October 2023

    Expert comment

  13. BudgetByte #2: can agile procurement and digital transformation improve spending outcomes?

    Event

  14. International AI Governance must be truly global

    Expert comment

  15. Digital public finance: top trends in September 2023

    Expert comment

  16. Pathways toward digitalization in Social Protection and Labor (SPL) service delivery

    Briefing/policy paper

  17. Silent Crisis: information, decision-making, and communities on the frontlines of climate change

    Research report

  18. Digital public finance: top trends in July 2023

    Expert comment

  19. BudgetByte #1: What did we learn from our first Hub webinar?

    Expert comment

  20. BudgetByte #1: can standards for fiscal data exchange support better service delivery?

    Event