Digital Governance & Regulation

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

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

We use these insights to advise our clients and stakeholders on how to build and maintain a safe and secure society, and sustainable growth and innovation, particularly through governance approaches and policy or regulatory advice. DGR provides stakeholders with an action perspective by improving their understanding of current and future challenges, analysing the underlying systems and businesses, and designing governance and policy measures.

Our mission

To use our expertise to provide actionable advice to stakeholders on handling current and future challenges relating to how information and communications technologies and 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