Digital Societies

Drawing on youth perspectives, what is needed to help young people prepare for life and work in an increasingly digital world?

By accident or design, the internet has created ideal conditions for the spead of false information. This briefing note shares 10 things you need to know and how it can be tackled.

As the global labour market shifts increasingly online in light of Covid-19, Susan Njambi-Szlapka shares four key ways to challenge North-South discrimination in the online gig economy. 

Watch our in-depth discussion on the implications of Covid-19 for the use of technology in serving citizens to tackle the virus, provide social protection and supply public information. 

Five ways the Covid-19 outbreak is creating new norms around the use of digital technologies.

As digital technology takes over our work, economies and privacy, ODI's Digital Societies Programme Director Louise Shaxson explains why evidence is key to understand and govern the digital revolution. 

New technologies are creating similar challenges for countries around the world, so we must avoid approaching digital as a 'development' problem.

We tend to focus on what has worked in international development, but sharing experiences of failures and how to adapt can provide vital opportunities for learning.

Youth-led initiatives and creative spaces can address employment challenges for Africa's growing population – but there are limitations.

As Africa's population grows, how can we improve educational and job opportunities for its youth and how can digital technologies help?

Lessons learned from how communities, associations and cooperatives are supporting their young people into agriculture in Uganda.

As development interventions become increasingly complex, an expert panel explores solutions to measuring the hard to measure in development.