Voices

24 February 2025

Government AI adoption: formal-relational contracting can unlock responsible progress

Governments worldwide are quickly ramping up efforts to adopt artificial intelligence, but concerns about risk, bias, and accountability loom large. Felix-Anselm van Lier, Research and Policy Fellow at the Government Outcomes Lab and Co-Director of the Leading Cross-Sector Partnerships Programme, argues that a flexible, collaborative contracting model can unlock progress.

Felix-Anselm van Lier

Public sector

Digital, Cyber and AI

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Government Outcomes Lab

United Kingdom (UK)

Featured

Blog

25 February 2025

Europe has a competitiveness problem. But it’s not what you think.

European policymakers are hyper fixated on competing with the US on technology, but they miss a fundamental aspect of winning the innovation race: technology adoption. Blavatnik School alum and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Future Generations Leonardo Quattrucci and Sciences Po’s Beatriz Botero Arcila outline the good news for Europe in the age of AI.

Leonardo Quattrucci

Beatriz Botero Arcila

Blog

30 January 2025

President Trump's immigration executive orders are an assault on rule of law

American MPP Students Sophie Huttner and Astrid Liden argue that the Trump administration's new moves on immigration constitute a direct assault on rule of law and the foundational principles of democracy in the United States.

Astrid Liden

Sophie Huttner

Law

United States of America (USA)

Blog

27 January 2025

Taiwan’s government faces paralysis—just when it needs strength the most

MPP student Vivi Lin, a Taiwanese gender equality activist and former Youth Advisor to Taiwan's central government, writes of the power of activism and the strength in democratic numbers.

Vivi Lin

Democracy and politics

Taiwan

Latest articles

Blog

13 February 2015

Student Life: Interview with Diana and Juan David

The School

Prof Ngaire Woods moderating a debate at Davos 2015

Blog

04 February 2015

Dispatches from Davos

Ngaire Woods

Democracy and politics

Global cooperation

Dean Ngaire Woods in conversation with Mayor Anibal Gaviria.

Blog

05 January 2015

The numbers speak for themselves: a conversation with the Mayor of Medellín

Sondos Shalaby

Public sector

Democracy and politics

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Colombia

Patrick Les Galesat the Challenges of Government Conference 2014

Blog

19 December 2014

Bringing in the doctors: can academia save government from itself?

Blog

Can we shrink the car?

Urmila Pullat

Public sector

School children in Peshawar (source: Flickr)

Blog

17 December 2014

Peshawar school attack: Will it be a turning point in the war against terrorism?

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Focus on: AI governance

Blog

07 June 2024

Navigating the cyber frontier: trends and challenges

Brian Kot, an MPhil in International Relations, highlights four broad themes critical for policymakers as they navigate the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Brian Kot

Digital, Cyber and AI

Blog

06 November 2023

Optimists, doomers and securo-pragmatists: Reflections on the UK’s AI safety summit

For all the carping, the Prime Minister’s Bletchley Park jamboree moved the world forward on AI safety.

Ciaran Martin

Digital, Cyber and AI

Neural network AI Artificial Intelligence illustration

Blog

04 October 2023

Charting the path to global AI governance: potential and ethics

Paola Galvez Callirgos (MPP 2022) sets out her vision for the effective global governance of Artificial Intelligence.

Paola Galvez Callirgos

Digital, Cyber and AI

Law

Blog

31 May 2023

How should government and business manage risks emerging from AI systems?

MPP student Bálint Pataki sets out the strategies needed to manage risks from artificial intelligence.

Bálint Árpád Pataki

Focus on: Climate crisis

Towards COP29: unpacking the key issues for a sustainable future

Ashima Gulati, a current MPP student with a law and policy background, reflects on the key issues for COP29 this year, which comes in the wake of extreme weather events across the world and a changing geopolitical landscape with a new US President.

Ashima Gulati

Climate and environment

Blog

04 September 2023

How Africa can leverage trade and investment for a just transition

Kennedy Mbeva and Cherono Sego take us through how Africa could become a major hub for climate action.

Kennedy Mbeva

Cherono Sego

Climate and environment

Trade

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Africa

Blog

24 January 2023

Climate and legitimacy: Who is right in the Anthropocene?

Following the arrest of Greta Thunberg at a climate protest in Germany, MPP student Baudouin De Hemptinne asks if the climate crisis is forcing us to reimagine the legitimacy of actions by both state actors and protestors.

Baudouin de Hemptinne

Climate and environment

Europe

Blog

01 July 2022

More mining cooperation, not less, would be needed in the run up to carbon neutrality

Though phasing down the role of global mining industries may seem like a logical step in the journey to carbon neutrality, MPP alumnus Yanzhu Zhang argues that more mining cooperation will be needed in the first instance to produce the technology and capacity required for the clean energy transition.

Yanzhu Zhang

Global cooperation

Climate and environment