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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

The experts among us

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

    Briefing/policy papers

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

    Insight

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

    Insight

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

    Event

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

    Insight

  6. Digital public finance: top trends in November 2023

    Insight

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

    Insight

  8. Digital public finance: top trends in October 2023

    Insight

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

    Event

  10. International AI Governance must be truly global

    Insight

  11. Digital public finance: top trends in September 2023

    Insight

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

    Briefing/policy papers

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

    Research reports

  14. Digital public finance: top trends in July 2023

    Insight

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

    Insight

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

    Event

  17. Unpacking the real value of data for public finance

    Insight

  18. Digital public finance: top trends in June 2023

    Insight

  19. Advancing digital change through public financial management

    Insight

  20. Digital public finance: top trends in May 2023

    Insight