Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (13 January 2026)
Governance and Regulation New York Could Show Cities a Better Way to Work With Big Tech on Safety (Nikhil Jain – Tech Policy Press) In his inauguration speech at the start of this year, Mayor Zohran Mamdani made a promise to govern New York City “expansively and audaciously.” He brings a high-profile team to lead […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (12 January 2026)
Governance Twenty Years On: What WSIS+20 Means For International Digital Governance (Rose Payne, Ellie McDonald – Tech Policy Press) The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) concluded its twenty-year review on December 17, closing WSIS+20, a process revisiting one of the United Nations’ most influential experiments in digital governance. Historically, WSIS is significant because […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (9 January 2026)
Governance and Regulation How do we protect our information ecosystem? ‘Embrace ownership, openness and oversight’ (Almar Latour, Bill Ready-World Economic Forum) Generative AI models that scrape proprietary data and creative work without providing fair compensation threaten the media ecosystem, say CEOs of Dow Jones and Pinterest. Leaders must prioritize ownership through licensing agreements that respect […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (8 January 2026)
Governance Grok’s explicit images reveal AI’s legal ambiguities (Ashley Gold, Ina Fried – AXIOS) Grok’s continued posting of nonconsensual images on X highlights a key unsettled legal issue around artificial intelligence: just who — if anyone — is liable for harm caused by a chatbot’s outputs. Why it matters: Businesses, individuals and society are increasingly […]
20th PAM Plenary Session
Spring Meetings of the World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Third PAM Economic Forum
PAM-CGS Newsletter No. 4
CGS Publishes New Report on the Misuse of Spyware Technologies
18 December 2025, San Marino – The Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM), supported by its Centre for Global Studies (CGS), publishes today its new comprehensive report on “Spyware Misuse: Legislative, Governance, and Judicial Considerations, Historical Evolution, and Technical Insights”. The report, available on PAM-CGS website, was developed within the framework of PAM’s established cooperation […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (19 December 2025)
Highlights UN member states adopt WSIS+20 outcome document (DigWatch) The WSIS+20 review process – dedicated to reviewing progress made in the implementation of outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society, 20 years after their adoption – finalised in New York, with the adoption of an outcome document at the end of a dedicated […]