Dispatch from the Digital Planet: June 2025

Check out the latest research insights, analyst spotlights, and news from Digital Planet.

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The Emerging Geography of AI: Introducing the Top-Ranked AI Nations (TRAIN) Scorecard

The Emerging Geography of AI: Introducing the Top-Ranked AI Nations (TRAIN) Scorecard

As the Global AI race intensifies, we mapped emerging AI leadership across data, rules, capital, and innovation.

Glass Ceilings, Broken Rungs, and Gummy Floors: Part 2

Glass Ceilings, Broken Rungs, and Gummy Floors: Part 2

Women remain under-represented in high-paying technical and decision-making roles in STEM professions – a scenario that exposes the Achilles’ heel of the entire technology industry.

Global Digital Inclusion: Progress to Parity Scorecard 2022

Global Digital Inclusion: Progress to Parity Scorecard 2022

The under-representation of women in high-paying STEM roles is a vexing issue that exposes a systemic inertia across the industry.

Digital Evolution
Index 2025

From the COVID Shock to the AI Surge: How 125 Digital Economies around the World are Evolving and Changing.

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Kenya’s ride-hailing drivers say their jobs offer dignity despite the challenges

Kenya’s ride-hailing drivers say their jobs offer dignity despite the challenges

Digital work can be experienced as more dignified than the available alternatives – if rules and pay are fair.

Can Trump 2.0 be taken seriously?: Interview with Bhaskar Chakravorti

Can Trump 2.0 be taken seriously?: Interview with Bhaskar Chakravorti

Dean Bhaskar Chakravorti unpacks Trump 2.0—its bold economic agenda, crisis responses, impact on US-India ties, and what these shifts signal for America’s future power.

10 New AI Challenges—and How to Meet Them: Bhaskar Chakravorti

10 New AI Challenges—and How to Meet Them: Bhaskar Chakravorti

Bhaskar Chakravorti outlines 10 urgent AI challenges—from deepening inequality to rising energy use—and urges leaders to act now with practical solutions before trust, safety, and inclusion are lost.

How Companies Can Mitigate the Harms of AI-Driven Inequality: Bhaskar Chakravorti

How Companies Can Mitigate the Harms of AI-Driven Inequality: Bhaskar Chakravorti

AI can deepen societal gaps—“artificial inequality”—across six divides. Firms must act via tech, institutions, and markets to address this, with targeted steps suggested for each area.

Digital Leadership Series — AI Insecurity: Interview with Bhaskar Chakravorti

Digital Leadership Series — AI Insecurity: Interview with Bhaskar Chakravorti

Bhaskar Chakravorti highlights how AI can worsen social inequities and urges business leaders to address six key divides using tech, markets, and institutions to bridge gaps where policy falls short.

American AI Is High on Its Own Supply

American AI Is High on Its Own Supply

Why hasn’t the messianic urge for “efficiency” hit the tech industry?