Humanitarian aid is undergoing a profound transformation. As budgets shrink, institutions retreat, and digital systems take on ever greater responsibility, identity management has quietly become one o...

On September 16th, the Humanitarian AI+MERL Learning Group will host Margie Cheesman alongside book contributors for the official launch of “Aid and ID: Making People Matter." You can register here to...

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

Join us in London for a day of discussions about games, borders and resistance. In partnership with the Games Transformed 2026 festival, Oct 30 - Nov1

The industry is pushing for a key vote to help spend its midterm war chest against its enemies. Until then, it may not know who they are.

At the event held as part of the Digital Futures Institute’s Festival of Storytelling, journalists and media scholars warned that the future of journalism will be shaped by widening inequality, declin...

The crypto industry has spent $200 million to get a bill too corrupt for Democrats to pass and a president too corrupt to sign anything that might meaningfully limit his grift.

The UK has turned to AI to determine the age of asylum seekers, and other countries are likely to follow suit. Our investigation finds the technology is deeply unreliable.

Open Rights Group has responded to the government’s latest announcements on online safety, including proposals to: Big Tech Programme Manager James Baker said: “The Government is playing whack-a-mole...

Notes on how aid works: What WFP leaves out of data breach reports, the humanitarian reset’s neglected crises, and Palantir.

Digital Futures Institute: Festival of Storytelling – The Digital Futures Institute Festival of Storytelling, taking place 2–4 June, is a celebration of how we communicate what we ...

Digital learning, AI companions, healthcare tech & the infrastructure behind it all. A multi-domain event on the future of interaction – between humans, machines, and what we must protect.

Inside a landmark financial technology experiment in humanitarian aid

Dronotope: Emerging Technologies and the Politics of Timeline Visualisations - Beryl Pong – Macadam Building (MAC 405), Strand Campus, King’s College London, Mon 11 May 2026 - Data visualisations ofte...

A seismic shift is rocking the healthcare industry. Uber’s business model—the “gigification” of labor—and lobbying practices have made their way to healthcare staffing.

Recent economic, democratic and geopolitical events have raised the question of ‘the state' anew, as problems of territory, sovereignty, protectionism, borders, authoritarianism and surveillance ha...

When payment no longer requires identity

Sudanese and Afghan students with offers to study in UK say government’s ‘emergency brake’ is discriminatory

The government is consulting on digital ID. Have your say.

The Research Assistant (RA) will work closely with lead investigators, Dr Margie Cheesman (KCL) and Rory Crew (CALP), on the project Crypto Without Borders: Investigating Stablecoin Adoption in Humani...

A fight over stablecoin rules is really about whether deposits at major financial institutions will disappear

The Digital Sovereignty Observatory examines how emerging technologies reshape social and political boundaries.

The NGO says World's success is the result of a weak rule of law and sophisticated technological processes that allow its to avoid data protection rules.

A 130-million-user payment system backed by 16 major banks just launched to challenge Visa/mastercard

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Biometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies agents are using in their immigration enforcement campaign.

An illustrated guide to understanding digital rights, why we need them and how to secure them. It details organisations working in this area.

Video of raids and migrant arrests shared by profile with slogan ‘restoring order and control to our borders’

This monthly Humanitarian Evidence and Discourse Summary aims to signpost FCDO and others to the latest relevant evidence and discourse on humanitarian action. It is structured around FCDO humanitarian framework themes:Protect: Protect civilians, IDPs, refugees, marginalised groups including women and girls, and humanitarian access.Prioritise: Prioritise effective humanitarian assistance to people in greatest need.Prevent: Prevent and anticipate future shocks and rebuild resilience in protracted and recurring crises.This summary covers November 2025.

In 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power to dismantle regulators and write their own rules. But the instabilities they’re creating may be their downfall.

The defining features of British politics in 2025 have been the rise of Reform UK in the polls, and the impact of Donald Trump on the UK's domestic politics.

How digital ID systems affect stateless people, and why inclusion must go beyond registration to ensure rights and recognition

A white van rolled through the gates of a refugee camp in mainland Greece, its driver unloading a stack of pre-packaged lunches.

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One of the latest iterations of the border externalisation strategy includes the export of surveillance technologies and border control infrastructure. These tools – ranging from biometric databases a...

Somalis abroad send hundreds of millions of dollars home each year, more than official aid flows.

YouTube video by Women in Identity