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Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (29 October 2025)

Top of the Day The case for expanding digital public infrastructure (Rowan Wilkinson, Alex Krasodomski – Chatham House . 28 October 2025) The modernization of societies through digital technologies is a critical strategic priority that can improve public services and encourage private sector innovation. The term digital public infrastructure (DPI) refers both to the approach […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (28 October 2025)

Top of the Day Procedure as Substance in the UN Cybercrime Convention (Mailyn Fidler – Lawfare – 27 October 2025) Over the weekend, the UN Cybercrime Convention opened in Hanoi, Vietnam, for signature. The convention is nominally about combating cybercrime—about adopting a common set of definitions and procedures for handling this transnational issue. Seen this […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (27 October 2025)

Top of the Day Sixty-five nations sign first UN treaty to fight cybercrime, in milestone for digital cooperation (UN News – 25 October 2025) Sixty-five nations have signed a landmark United Nations treaty in Hanoi aimed at tackling cybercrime – a move Secretary-General António Guterres hailed as a historic step toward a safer digital world. […]

Weekly Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (27 October 2025)

Governance, Courts, and Litigation Albania is Showing the Perils of Outsourcing Democracy to Algorithms (Adelaida (Adele) Jasperse – Tech Policy Press – 24 October 2025) Imagine an administrative assistant ascending to a cabinet minister position in seven months. Now imagine that the minister is an OpenAI chatbot running on Microsoft’s cloud, speaking through the avatar […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (24 October 2025)

Governance, Courts, and Litigation Civil Society is the Democracy Shield Europe Can’t Ignore (Barbora Bukovská, Mark Dempsey – Tech Policy Press – 23 October 2025)  Last week in Brussels, former heads of state, European Commissioners (past and present), policy makers, academics, regulators and civil society convened to confront a defining question of our era: what […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (23 October 2025)

Governance New AI export marketplace looks to connect domestic AI firms with foreign buyers (Alexandra Kelley – NextGov – 22 September 2025) The Commerce Department launched its latest initiative to lay the groundwork for a strong artificial intelligence export environment by unveiling the American AI Exports Program on Tuesday. The program was designed to further […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (22 October 2025)

Governance PAHO issues new guide on designing AI prompts for public health (DigWatch – 21 October 2025) The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has released a guide with practical advice on creating effective AI prompts for public health. The guide AI prompt design for public health helps professionals use AI responsibly to generate accurate and […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (21 October 2025)

Governance   Amazon Cloud Outage Reveals Democratic Deficit in Relying on Big Tech (Corinne Cath, Don Le – Tech Policy Press – 20 October 2025) On Monday, a global technical failure at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, sent hundreds of applications and services from Snapchat and Signal to Fortnite and Lloyds Bank […]