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October 1, 2026

🌈 Gender, public knowledge, and democratic backsliding

Sebastián León-Giraldo Political decisions about what governments collect, publish and use can shape more than statistics. Sebastián León-Giraldo argues that public knowledge is part of democratic infrastructure. When states make some populations harder to see, they can also weaken the evidence used to identify inequality and hold power accountable Read more
August 4, 2026

The promise of the Interoperable Europe Act

Evangelos Palaskas The EU’s Interoperable Europe Act aims to enable seamless data flows and online public services across borders. Drawing on EU digital regulation research, Evangelos Palaskas illustrates how the Act's governance, agenda and political challenges will shape the next phase of digital government in the European Union Read more
April 14, 2026

Why US-Africa bilateral health deals are inherently unfair

Fubu Ngubu New US-Africa health agreements promise funding and self-reliance. But many include clauses on data and pathogen sharing. Fubu Ngubu argues that such arrangements risk transforming health partnerships into exercises in digital extraction. African data is generating global value without fair returns for African nations Read more

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