Digitalisation
We explore how technology can be harnessed for the greater good, and identify ways to monitor and reduce its potential to damage the positive outcomes – justice, equality and inclusion – that we seek.
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ODI on Digital
BudgetByte #4 – Can innovative EMIS platforms improve education spending?
In this webinar experts will reflect on the synergy between public finance and education sector needs for timely and relevant EMIS data, recent advancements in user-driven data platforms, and the key barriers to the implementation and use of innovative data platforms.
On lipstick, social media and the performativity of UK aid
There is far too little time and space provided to understanding how the UK development offer might support or not the kind of economic transformation essential for sustained poverty reduction.
Our Digital Age and the Exercise and Contestation of Power
This brief tackles the question: In a digital age, what is new in who exercises power over whom? It focuses on the power of States in relation to both citizens and territory, and outlines four areas where fundamental changes are taking place in the exercise and contestation of power.
Digital public finance: top trends in December 2023 and January 2024
The latest trends in public finance and digital, covering government use of AI, the Post Office Horizon scandal, foreign digital money, and the dangers of digital public infrastructure.
Think Change episode 39: how can AI become a force for social good?
This episode examines ethical implications around the use of AI and what this new digital age means for political power.
BudgetByte #3: Can governments make digital payments to citizens 'smarter'?
This is the third event in the BudgetByte webinar series from ODI’s Digital Public Finance Hub that explores government capabilities to bring public finance into the digital era. The aim of the webinar is to consider the possibilities of 'smarter' payments systems to improve spending outcomes.
