Digital Governance & Regulation

DGR provides stakeholders with an action perspective by improving their understanding of current and future opportunities and challenges, analysing the underlying systems, and designing relevant measures.

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The Digital Governance & Regulation (DGR) research group supports society (Dutch, European and international) in taking on current and future trends concerning digital technologies. We have deep insight into how these technologies are transforming our society and economy, and our perspective is systemic.

We use these insights to advise our clients and stakeholders in the public and private sector on how to build and maintain a safe and secure society, realise the opportunities of digital innovation, and contribute to economic growth and broad prosperity. DGR provides stakeholders with an action perspective by improving their understanding of current and future opportunities and challenges, analysing the underlying systems, and designing relevant measures.

Our mission

To use our expertise to provide actionable advice to clients and stakeholders on navigating current and future trends relating to how digital technologies are transforming our society and economy.

Questions we help answer

  • How should governments and businesses effectively govern artificial intelligence and other disruptive technologies?
  • How can we balance privacy and data rights while supporting innovation?
  • How can we take advantage of the opportunities that data sharing presents to the economy, while ensuring sufficient oversight and accountability?
  • What are the foundations of Digital Trust?
  • How do we strengthen digital sovereignty to make Europe and the Netherlands less vulnerable politically and economically?
  • How can we use data to improve policy making and support public sector innovation?
  • How do we ensure that data-driven technologies are not overly influenced by biases in the data?

Core activities

  • Agenda setting
  • Strategy
  • Foresight
  • Policy analysis and impact assessment
  • Developing future scenarios and monitoring tools
  • Apply data-driven and quantitative analysis
  • Conducting legal and regulatory analyses
  • Promote co-creation and policy experiments
  • Coordinating stakeholders, projects and programmes