Featured
Opening Multilateralism: Two Pathways to Digital Legitimacy
15 Sep 2025
As digital technologies reshape global power, the rules that govern them are increasingly negotiated in multilateral fora. But if these bodies are to deliver legitimate and future-proof governance frameworks for the Internet, AI, cybersecurity, and data, their processes must adapt – expanding participation to include the wider set of actors…
READ
10 Mar 2026
news
GPD’s Submission to the IGF 2026 Call for Thematic Inputs
— The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) invites all stakeholders to take part in shaping the IGF 2026 process. Through this open call for thematic input, individuals and organizations from all stakeholder groups and regions of the world are invited to share their perspectives on the most relevant emerging…
10 Mar 2026
Blog post
EU DSA: Challenges for Global Majority Researchers
This blog is based on a longer report by Agustina Del Campo with input from Maria Paz Canales: “Data access for researchers within digital platforms: Unpacking the human rights implications, practical opportunities and challenges for the Global Majority.” —— Platform accountability and access…
10 Mar 2026
Blog post
The AI Governance Void: How Do We Escape the Unilateral Power Trap?
As the AI policy community returned to business as usual following the India AI Impact Summit two weeks ago, GPD–like many civil society groups– left with a sense of unease. Caught between the tech industry’s growing embrace of the language of “ responsible, transparent, and accountable AI” and…
18 Feb 2026
Blog post
Reflections from MAP-AI: From Principles to Action in Global AI Governance
Over the past two days, Global Partners Digital (GPD) had the opportunity to participate in two multistakeholder dialogues convened under the Multistakeholder Approaches to Participation in AI Governance (MAP-AI) initiative, led by the Global Network Initiative (GNI) and the Centre for Communication…
28 Jan 2026
Blog post
Looking Back: Tracking National Positions in the WSIS+20 Review
Over the course of 2025, a major United Nations (UN) digital governance process, the 20-year review of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS+20) unfolded. The WSIS+20 Review was a key opportunity to assess the progress made towards the original goal of the WSIS–building a people-centered, inclusive, and development-oriented Information…
27 Jan 2026
news
Joint Civil Society Statement on the Draft Rules of Procedure of the Conference of States Parties to the UN Cybercrime Convention
The undersigned civil society organisations welcome the development of draft Rules of Procedure (RoP) for the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Cybercrime. The Rules will play a decisive role in shaping how the Convention is implemented in practice and whether its institutional framework supports transparency, accountability,…
19 Jan 2026
Blog post
Why the Next Decade Demands Evidence, Participation, and Innovation
As the dust settles on the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 20-year Review, observers are once again asking what the final outcome document—adopted by consensus on 17 December 2025—really delivers. Much like the WSIS+10 review a decade…
18 Dec 2025
Blog post
WSIS+20: What the Final Outcome Delivers – and What It Leaves Unresolved
As the dust settles on the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 20-year Review, attention is turning to what the final outcome document (adopted by consensus on 17 December) ultimately delivers. For much of the review, discussions were pragmatic and forward-looking, reflecting…