Published: Berggruen Institute
Digital technologies hold tremendous potential to enhance societal wellbeing, including the protection and promotion of democracy and human rights. However, citizens, political leaders, and states are increasingly concerned about how digital technologies can be used to curtail freedoms and oppress populations in both liberal democratic and autocratic states. Digital authoritarianism has emerged as a policy-relevant description of this concern, but suffers from a lack of conceptual clarity, stakeholder consensus on areas of focus, and strategic policy guidance.
Understanding digital authoritarianism is essential context for Network Nations, which seek to build alternative governance systems that protect against these dynamics.
Link: Berggruen Institute