Think Tank
The Digital Future Society Think Tank conducts action-oriented research and dialogue around ethical, legal and inclusion challenges with the aim of proposing relevant new principles, strategies, and solutions.
The Think Tank operates with a global vision and cross-sectoral approach to exploring the challenges and opportunities emerging from the design, use, and governance of digital technologies. Solutions and policy recommendations resulting from the Think Tank’s work are designed to empower policymakers to anticipate challenges and leverage opportunities of the digital age.
The Digital Future Society Lab offers an environment to experiment with these outcomes by implementing local initiatives to prototype, pilot and share lessons and best practices around the governance of digital technologies.
Working Groups
Where emerging tech meets government: blockchain and AI
When it comes to emerging technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence, governments face major challenges in separating hype from reality and making sense of competing narratives around each technology and its impact.
Team – Public Innovation
Policy making in the digital era: govtech and citizen engagement
At a time when public trust in institutions is low, governments worldwide are seeking new ways to involve citizens in policymaking. But does technology help or hinder when it comes to participation?
Team – Public Innovation
Digital cooperation to bridge digital divides
Bridging the gap between the private sector and policymakers is an essential first step in bridging digital divides. A more nuanced, holistic and actionable understanding of how stakeholders must collaborate in the digital era is therefore required; not only at the level of the individual of access to the internet, but with a view to reducing socioeconomic disparities and promoting
equitable growth across society as a whole.
Team – Equitable Growth
The future of workers and the rise of digital labour platforms
The rise of digital labour platforms generates new challenges
for policymakers, employers,social protection institutions and workers, while it also makes visible
other underlying challenges connected to the wider issue of the rise of atypical forms work in general.
Team – Equitable Growth
Data ethics and the challenge of digital privacy
The landscape of data ethics is complex, and many challenges emerge when trying to define and engage with it, especially when nascent digital technologies such as artificial intelligence or edge computing are involved. What kind of data governance tools and solutions can help transform ethical principles into practice?
Team – Digital Trust & Security
Business models that reinforce transparency and privacy
Opaque business models make it harder to trace the collection, use, and exploitation of personal data. How can policymakers identify and support SMEs with business models that reinforce transparency
and privacy when it comes to data-handling practices?
Team – Digital Trust & Security