• The World Bank launched the Atlas of Global Development 2026 interactive global data visualisation tool through its Data360 platform to support evidence-based policymaking and development analysis.

• The Royal Academy of Engineering published a report examining digitalisation, computing infrastructure, and the future resilience of engineering systems.

• The UK government released its 2026 Cyber Security Sectoral Analysis, highlighting continued growth and investment across the national cyber sector.

• Microsoft’s Global AI Adoption Report examined how organisations worldwide are integrating AI technologies into business and public sector operations.

• The OECD published a case study on Korea’s Open Policy Lab, showcasing participatory approaches to public sector innovation and governance.

• The World Economic Forum released the GovTech Compass 2026, analysing global trends in digital government and public sector innovation.

• A new World Bank report, “Public Institutions in the Age of AI: Emerging Practices”, examines how governments are moving from high-level AI principles to practical implementation across public institutions, highlighting emerging governance models, institutional practices, and lessons from early adopters.

• The another report from WEF explored how AI technologies are being deployed to strengthen cybersecurity and support digital defenders.

• Code for America published a new assessment mapping the evolving landscape of AI adoption across government institutions.

• The Alan Turing Institute released a report on resilient defence AI, focusing on security, reliability, and responsible deployment of AI systems.

• A new World Bank policy note, “Digital Wallets: A New Paradigm”, explores how digital wallets are reshaping digital identity, data sharing, electronic signatures, and payments through emerging user-centric credential ecosystems.

• Visa released a white paper examining the use of AI to improve public disbursement systems and digital financial inclusion.

• A new WEF report examined AI infrastructure, digital sovereignty, and emerging frameworks for trusted “digital embassies.”

• The Tony Blair Institute examined the governance challenges of deploying AI within healthcare systems facing increasing operational pressures.

• A new report, “Strategic Choices in the Age of AI: Shaping the Future of Life Sciences”, explores how AI is transforming the life sciences and medtech sectors — not only by accelerating discovery, but also by reshaping development, evidence generation, patient access, and the broader healthcare innovation ecosystem.

Articles:

• “Participatory energy governance in the era of sustainability: Ranking strategies”, develops a hybrid NNM–IPA framework to evaluate and rank participatory energy governance strategies, highlighting the importance of decentralized governance, citizen participation, and targeted public–private interventions in supporting an equitable and sustainable energy transition.
• “Expert consensus on the application and governance of artificial intelligence in medical institutions (2026)”, presents a comprehensive governance framework for AI adoption in medical institutions, outlining legal, ethical, clinical, and operational standards across the full AI lifecycle, with particular emphasis on patient rights, data governance, human–machine accountability, risk monitoring, and explainable, trustworthy AI in healthcare.
• “Intellectual property (IP) rights governance and related value mechanisms in Common European Data Spaces”, examines how intellectual property governance frameworks can support trustworthy and equitable data sharing within Common European Data Spaces, arguing for clearer alignment between EU data legislation and IP regimes through mechanisms such as FRAND licensing, multi-stakeholder governance, NDAs, and AI-enabled governance tools.
• “Stances toward data governance: Negotiating tensions in data sharing for artificial intelligence in healthcare”, explores how healthcare data-sharing initiatives navigate competing demands around privacy, openness, responsibility, and AI innovation, identifying three distinct governance stances—progressive, protective, and integrative—through which stakeholders negotiate the normative, organizational, and technical tensions of AI-driven data governance.
• “Data Sovereignty Does Matter! Effects on Trust, Perceived Risk, and Willingness to Share (Business) Data”, provides empirical evidence that stronger perceptions of data sovereignty significantly increase organizations’ willingness to share business data by reducing perceived risks, highlighting the growing importance of sovereignty mechanisms within emerging data economies and interorganizational data ecosystems.
• “Government policy documents across 185 countries largely cite Global North sources”, analyses more than 1.2 million policy documents worldwide and finds that government policymaking across both the Global North and Global South overwhelmingly relies on evidence and policy references produced in Global North countries, revealing persistent global asymmetries in knowledge visibility, access, and influence within the international policy ecosystem.

Blogs:

• MIT Technology Review proposed a new blueprint for protecting democracy in an era increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence and digital systems.
• TIME explored concerns around a growing “age of data nihilism,” questioning declining public trust in data, institutions, and digital governance.
• The World Economic Forum examined the hardware limitations facing AI development and emerging approaches to overcoming infrastructure bottlenecks.
• GovInsider analysed why Italy’s digital public infrastructure strategy focuses heavily on user experience and institutional integration rather than traditional infrastructure models.
• The OECD highlighted how the European Union is deploying AI technologies across strategic sectors including healthcare, industry, and public services.
• Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation outlined its vision for building an “agentic state” that moves beyond traditional digital government services.
• The World Economic Forum examined how governments can maintain public trust and accessibility in the AI era.
• The new blog piece explores how emerging technologies and AI governance frameworks can be shaped around human dignity, peace, ethical stewardship, and international cooperation rather than purely technological optimisation.
• Rest of World analysed how China and the United States are shaping the global AI race through competing technological and geopolitical strategies.
• Another blog piece examined how technology policy and AI competition are influencing diplomatic relations between the United States and China.
• New reporting highlighted how AI is being used to map and optimise energy grid infrastructure in China.

• The OECD explored the need for shared international foundations to strengthen collective AI security and global coordination.

• Rest of World explored growing debates around AI sovereignty in Africa and the role of major technology companies across the continent.

• GovInsider explored whether ASEAN countries can move towards a more unified regional AI governance framework.
• The WEF blog argued that cybersecurity should be treated as a systemic economic and strategic priority for governments and organisations.
• Beth Simone Noveck discussed the democratic implications of AI governance and public participation in digital policymaking.
• The Tony Blair Institute argued that AI will not meaningfully transform government without stronger, more governable public data systems.

• Digital Europe Programme: call for experts, European Health and Digital Executive Agency

• Open Call for Cybersecurity Experts, European Cybersecurity Industrial, Technology and Research Competence Centre

• Call for Entries: Women in STEM Awards, British Embassy Bangkok

• Independent co-chair, UK Council for Science and Technology

• Open call for proposals, Digital Europe Programme

• Sovereign AI Strategic Assets Grants Programme, The Sovereign AI Fund

• Wellcome Career Development Awards, The Wellcome Trust