Dr. Keegan McBride is an expert on topics such as digital government, digital innovation, the use of AI in the public sector, digital well-being and happiness, and government interoperability and data exchange. He is an active member of the scholarly community, participating in several high-level digital government focused conferences and publishing in leading peer-reviewed digital government focused journals. In his research he aims to develop an understanding about the future trajectory of the state in the digital age by exploring the complex and co-evolutionary relationships between technology, society, and the state.
Outside of these academic interests, Keegan is actively working with NGOs, particularly those that focus on reimagining a better, open, human-centric, and equitable digital future, he can additionally be found consulting and working with governments and private sector organizations on the topic of governmental digitalization. Keegan received an MSc in e-Governance Technologies and Services and completed his doctoral studies in public administration –both at the Tallinn University of Technology in Tallinn, Estonia.
Interoperability, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence in the public sector, digital innovation, open government data, digital government, digital transformation, co-creation of public services, procurement of innovation, digital wellbeing.
This programme supports research on AI, Government and Policy.
As governments digitalize, their bureaucratic structures are increasingly encountering AI. This project explores what happens next by asking how the structures of public sector bureaucracies transform when exposed to new AI-based systems.
13 March 2024
Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute and the University of Bremen share their insights on how digital technologies can be used to wield authoritarian power in the context of the Russian election.
9 February 2024
On 14th February 2024, Indonesia will hold its fifth direct presidential election since transitioning to democracy in 1998.
6 February 2024
With a proliferation of AI-generated images sweeping across the internet, OII experts explore the benefits and risks of AI technologies to society.
15 December 2023
Political parties want to win elections. To win elections, it is essential to understand voters. To understand voters, as demonstrated by the successful presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Barack Obama, political parties now rely on data.
Evening Standard, 26 March 2024
City Voices: It is not possible to build an innovative, robust, and resilient digital government on top of the infrastructure built almost 10 years before the internet existed
Just Security, 04 January 2024
Countries are competing to become global leaders in Artificial Intelligence (AI), creating new geopolitical tensions in the process.
Fast Company, 07 November 2023
Using the corpus of X posts as training data sounds like a good idea—until you look at the tone of conversation on the social platform.
This option course will approach the study of government and politics through the lens of data science.
