Digitalisation

Opportunities and risks related to digitalisation are challenging to address and require excellent collaboration between technique and governance. IRGC has been exploring these issues over a series of specific themes:

• Digital Currencies and Assets (2022)
• Deepfakes (2019)
• Decision-making Algorithms / Machine Learning (2018)
• Distributed Ledger Technologies / Blockchain (2017)
• Internet of Things and Cybersecurity (2016)
• Cyber security (2015)

Expert workshops and conferences

• Governing Opportunities and Risks of Digital Currencies, October 2022
• Governance Of and By Digital Technology conference, November 2020
  
• Forged authenticity: Governing deepfake risks, September 2019
• The Governance of Decision-Making Algorithms, Zurich, July 2018
• Governing Risks and Benefits of Distributed Ledger Technologies, Zurich, June 2017
• Cybersecurity Risks in the Internet of Things: Connected vehicles and medical devices, Zurich, November 2016
• Cyber Security Risk Governance, Zurich, October 2015
• Comparing Methods for Terrorism and Cyber Security Risk Analysis, Washington D.C., May 2015

The workshops in Zurich are organised at the Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue and in partnership with the Swiss Re Institute, which has been supporting IRGC since 2005, both intellectually and financially.

In 2019-2022 IRGC participated in the EU H2020 TRIGGER project, which created tools for EU institutions to use in global digital technology governance.

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Downloads

• Governing, opportunities and risks of digital currencies, 2022, Workshop highlights
• EU H2020 TRIGGER project: Governance and technologies: interrelations and opportunities, 2021, Final report.
• Governance Of and By digital technology – conference proceedings, 2020, Conference proceedings
• EU H2020 TRIGGER project: Review of current governance regimes and EU initiatives concerning AI, 2020, Working paper
• Forged authenticity: governing deepfake risks
  • Policy brief, 2019
  • Slide presentation, 2019
• The governance of decision-making algorithms
  • Presentation slides, 2018
  • Workshop report, 2018
• Governing risks and benefits of distributed ledger technologies (DLTs), 2017, Workshop highlights
• Governing cybersecurity risks and benefits of the internet of things: Connected medical and health devices and connected vehicles
  • Workshop report, 2017
  • Workshop highlights, 2017
• Comparing Methods for Terrorism and Cyber Security Risk Analysis, Washington D.C., May 2015, Workshop report