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Digital Societies

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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. Digital public finance: top trends in June 2023

    Expert comment

  2. Advancing digital change through public financial management

    Expert comment

  3. Digital public finance: top trends in May 2023

    Expert comment

  4. Digital public finance: top trends in April 2023

    Expert comment

  5. Budgets and Bytes: how can digital improve public spending?

    Event

  6. Pathways towards digitalisation in social protection and public employment services

    Event

  7. Welcome to the Digital Public Finance Hub

    Expert comment

  8. Making public finance digital: Challenges to the emerging digital public financial management paradigm

    Working paper

  9. Digital public financial management: An emerging paradigm

    Working paper

  10. Public finance and development: top reads in March 2023

    Expert comment

  11. Influencers and incumbency: digital disinformation and discontent in Nigeria's Presidential elections

    Expert comment

  12. Could Big Tech’s loss be government’s gain?

    Expert comment

  13. Misinformation in Brazilian elections: can the judiciary stem the tide of political misinformation?

    Expert comment

  14. Local context and global social media governance: the case of Telegram

    Expert comment

  15. Russia’s recent ITU election loss is a major setback for China’s internet governance ambitions

    Expert comment

  16. Using real-time indicators for economic decision-making in government: Lessons from the Covid-19 crisis in the UK

    Emerging analysis

  17. Will the digital revolution unleash the potential of property taxation?

    Expert comment

  18. AfCFTA: unlocking the potential of the digital economy in Africa

    Research report

  19. Digital technologies and inclusion in humanitarian response

    Research report

  20. The digitalisation of social protection before and since the onset of Covid-19: opportunities, challenges and lessons

    Working paper