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Research Programme on AI, Government and Policy
This programme supports research on AI, Government and Policy.
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.
26 June 2024
OII researchers outline the necessity for policymakers to start laying the foundations for a strong, robust, and resilient digital government today.
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.
Fast Company, 03 July 2024
A Labour government is likely to be elected in the U.K. on Thursday. That might not signal a huge shift in tech policy.
The Daily Upside, 27 June 2024
As the AI market matures, there is a stark realization in public sectors elsewhere that this is America’s AI world.
San Francisco Examiner, 16 June 2024
The open-source software movement has long had broad support in Silicon Valley. The question of whether cutting-edge artificial-intelligence models ought to be available on an open-source basis, though, is sparking a serious debate.
This option course will approach the study of government and politics through the lens of data science.