Twenty-Second Annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture | Leopoldo...
05:45 PM - 07:00 PM
The 2025 Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World will be delivered by Leopoldo López, a Venezuelan prodemocracy activist and cofounder of the World Liberty Congress.
Data-Centric Authoritarianism: How China’s Development of Frontier...
A new report reviews key data-centric technologies whose development could fortify Beijing’s tech-enabled authoritarian governance model.
Forum Focus: January 2025
Regular news from the National Endowment for Democracy’s International Forum for Democratic Studies on global challenges facing democracy around the world.
Digital Directions: December 2024
By Maya Recanati and Nick Nunez| Edited by Beth Kerley and Adam Fivenson Bimonthly insights on the evolving relationships among digital technologies, information integrity, and democracy from the International...
Big Question: How Are Cybercrime Laws Weaponized to Legalize Repression?
Edited by Maya Recanati and Beth Kerley Across the globe, autocrats are working to quash dissent online through a combination of domestic legal tools and digital surveillance. In particular, vaguely worded...
Defending Democratic Norms in Global Tech Governance
In the UN system and beyond, authoritarian maneuvers and democratic disillusionment are fundamentally challenging the participatory, multistakeholder models that have so far prevailed in governing digital technologies....
Forum Q&A: Irene Mwendwa on Women, Data, and Democracy
As AI technologies assume increasingly prominent roles in everyday life and government decision-making, building representative tools that reflect democratic values is more important than ever. Doing so will...
Digital Directions: October 2024
Digital Directions is a curated newsletter from the International Forum on the evolving relationships among digital technologies, information integrity, and democracy.
Leveraging AI for Democracy: Civic Innovation on the New Digital Playing...
DOWNLOAD THE COLLECTION A new report by Beth Kerley, Carl Miller, and Fernanda Campagnucci outlines possible paths toward a prodemocratic vision for AI. summary Like social media before them, new AI tools promise...
Leveraging AI for Democracy: Civic Innovation on the New...
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Please join the International Forum for Democratic Studies for the launch of a report that outlines possible paths toward a prodemocratic vision for AI.
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