The answers to both challenges lie in boosting innovation and increasing the commercialisation of new technologies, products ...

Electoral dysfunction across the continent tells the same story: citizens are convinced that democratic procedures serve ...

Calls to disarm Hezbollah are mounting — but lasting peace is impossible without a Lebanese state that can reclaim real ...

Nigerian not-for-profit organisation that promotes understanding and commitment of citizens and groups to the ideals, values and principles of democracy. He is also an FES Nigeria ‘Open Minds Young ...

Verena El Amil is a lawyer at the Beirut Bar Association and a lecturer at Saint Joseph University of Beirut. She also works for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Lebanon. In addition, she is actively ...

Algorithms meant to protect users now silence those who speak plainly about sexual violence, forcing euphemisms where truth ...

Rachel Beatty Riedl is the Peggy J. Koenig ’78 Director of the Center on Global Democracy in the Brooks School of Public Policy, and a Professor in the Brooks School and Department of Government at ...

Kevin O’Neil is the Managing Director of New Frontiers at the Rockefeller Foundation. Taxing AI is not about punishing innovation. It’s about ensuring that the rewards are shared and the risks are ...

Talal Salih is a member of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung’s Sudan project based in Kampala, Uganda. He previously worked for MiCT and the Thomson Foundation, among others, and has worked as a journalist ...

Michelle Kelly-Irving is a Research Director at Inserm (the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research) and leads the Equity research team at the University of Toulouse, France. She is ...

Achim Vogt heads the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) office in Uganda and the FES project in Sudan, based in Kampala, Uganda. Previously, he worked for the FES, among other things, as head of the ...

By framing digital sovereignty around regulation and political autonomy, big tech has deflected attention from deeper ...