This Policy Brief explores legal accountability options for malicious cyber operations as cyber threats escalate worldwide.

This paper from the Lemann Foundation Programme at Oxford analyses AI's impact on government, highlighting algorithmic accountability, global examples, Brazil's governance strategy, and needed improvements.

This Policy Brief highlights challenges with source code non-disclosure in trade agreements, which hinder AI regulation. It recommends revising or removing these provisions to balance business confidentiality with the need for effective oversight and accountability.

This policy brief from the Lemann Foundation Programme aims to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to make fiscal reports more accessible and understandable to the public. 

What can post-war Britain tell us about how the state should approach technology today? Post WW2, technological frontiers were seen as crucial for both prosperity and security – but big bets on Concorde and nuclear power generation failed. This cautionary tale of 'techno-nationalism' may have more lessons for industrial strategy today than the post-war example of the US moonshot.

This policy brief explores the capacity and autonomy gaps in the recently created Brazilian National Data Protection Authority (ANPD), and suggests alternatives to address them.

Focusing on the internet as a foundational technology, this paper begins by summarising recent developments in digital inclusion theory, particularly as this relates to developing countries. It sets out a framework of core components of digital inclusion - including access/use, quality of access/use, affordability, and digital skills - and briefly considers policy implications

This paper reviews methods that have been suggested by the development literature on diagnostics. We subdivide the variety of diagnostics into three types: revealing the most binding constraints to economy-wide growth; selecting sectors in which to diversify; and identifying sources of sectoral underperformance.

This new research publication by Ciaran Martin, Professor of Practice in the Management of Public Organisations, focuses on the use of end-to-end encryption to fight terrorism, online child abuse and other digital harms.

Schwab’s ‘digitalisation as progress’ story, examined in this paper, accurately presents digitalisation as a global process. But this global process has impacts within states and is perhaps primarily responded to at the national level.