This thematic research area aims to explore how governance, policy, and technical frameworks can be co-designed and developed in collaboration with communities to address pressing global challenges and promote rights, justice, wellbeing, and sustainability. It emphasizes the critical role of digital governance in addressing crises, including climate change, and protecting biodiversity, as well as promoting individual, collective, and ecological well-being (global health, biodiversity, psychosocial support, accessibility, mobility, and systems of care).
Moreover, we aim to generate insights to deepen our knowledge and understanding of how digital tools can facilitate harm and violence, and also be leveraged in preparedness, recovery, and safeguarding efforts in crises.
The global challenges we are facing are systemic in nature and require collaborative solutions that transcend national boundaries and meaningfully engage directly impacted communities, especially those who are most marginalized and excluded.
Therefore, we work to enable and develop capacities, approaches, and tools to address these challenges meaningfully through the co-design and development of governance reforms, scholarship, advocacy, and awareness-raising campaigns, and capacity development.
By investigating these areas, UNU-EGOV aims to develop relevant insights and policy recommendations that can inform governments, international organizations, civil society, and grassroots movements in their efforts to realize more just, equitable, and sustainable governance systems.
