Dispatch from the Digital Planet: June 2025

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

DIGITAL EVOLUTION INDEX 2025

From the Covid Shock to AI Surge: How 125 Digital Economies Around the World Are Evolving and Changing

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

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

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

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

Meta Looks for the X Factor: Bhaskar Chakravorti

What Mark Zuckerberg’s change of heart on misinformation means for the world.

Defeating Disinformation: Digital Platform Responsibility, Regulation and Content Moderation on the Global Technological Commons

Bhaskar Chakravorti and Joel P. Trachtman's seminal work granularly examines the complexities of balancing free speech against dangerous content on social media.

Trump’s Victory Has Opened the Disinformation Floodgates: Bhaskar Chakravorti

The 2024 U.S. elections were plagued by disinformation, shaping voter perceptions on key issues like immigration and crime. As Trump's second term begins, his disinformation machine seems poised to escalate.

This Year’s Nobels Were a Warning: Bhaskar Chakravorti

AI won big, but the prizes served as a reminder of what we could all lose.

How Digital Payments, AI, and other Tech Are Transforming Lives: Bhaskar Chakravorti

The U.S. Congress missed an opportunity. Instead, it published a road map that fails to address the key challenges posed by new technologies

If Kamala Harris Was the Czar of Anything, It Would Be AI: Bhaksar Chakravorti

The U.S. Congress missed an opportunity. Instead, it published a road map that fails to address the key challenges posed by new technologies

How Washington Missed the Boat on AI Regulation: Bhaskar Chakravorti

The U.S. Congress missed an opportunity. Instead, it published a road map that fails to address the key challenges posed by new technologies

Can ‘small’ AI have a huge impact in sub Saharan Africa?: Interview with Bhaskar Chakravorti and Abidemi Adisa

Tufts University researchers explore "small" AI's potential in Sub-Saharan Africa, where specialized models, trained on smaller datasets, can positively impact individual lives, like farmers in Kenya.

AI’s Trust Problem: Bhaskar Chakravorti

As AI advances, it confronts major trust issues due to concerns like disinformation, safety, ethical dilemmas, bias, and environmental impact. Addressing these challenges involves a unified strategy: training, empowering, and involving humans in AI oversight.

Getting Real About AI for the Bottom-of-the-Pyramid: Improving the Economic Outcomes of Smallholder Farmers in Africa
India’s missing jobs — and where the next government can find them: Bhaskar Chakravorti

We are staring at an employment crisis, which could get worse. But with policy support that could change.

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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.

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?

Trump 2.0: What To Expect From The Sequel: Interview with Bhaskar Chakravorti

Trump 2.0: What To Expect From The Sequel: Interview with Bhaskar Chakravorti

Bhaskar Chakravorti explores the economic impact of Donald Trump's potential return to the White House. He highlights global focus on Trump's team and policies, analyzing their effects on international relations and economic strategies. The discussion offers key insights into challenges…

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