Reports
Impact Assessments: Supporting AI Accountability
Artificial intelligence’s applications span everything from healthcare and education to manufacturing and energy. Automation is influencing strategies across industry, but...
Exploring the benefits of a future metaverse: What can we learn from current virtual reality applications?
The metaverse has the potential to redefine almost every sphere of our daily lives, from healthcare and education to work,...
Tech Policy Trends 2023
What does 2023 have in store for technology, policy, and regulation? 2023 represents a defining year for the tech sector....
The Growing Digital Economy in the Philippines
The Growing Digital Economy in the Philippines: Opportunities, Challenges, and Google’s Contributions Backed by strong government support, the Philippines’ digital...
Strengthening Singapore’s growth in the post-pandemic future
Strengthening Singapore’s growth in the post-pandemic future – unlocking SGD65.3 billion worth of annual economic opportunity from digital transformation by...
Social progress in mining-dependent countries
Social progress in mining-dependent countries: Analysing the role of resource governance in delivering the UN SDGs In 2018, the International...
A Primer: Hydrogen Fuel for Public Transport
The news from the UN’s Emissions Gap Report 2022 that “the international community is falling far short of the Paris...
Policy and regulatory decision-making under uncertainty
Policy and regulatory decisions involve more uncertainty than we would care to admit. In terms of prominent ‘macro’ events, in...
Impact of Hyperscale Cloud on the UAE’s SMEs and Start-ups
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is making significant progress on its growth path towards economic diversification, with non-oil sectors contributing...
The Metaversality Index 2022
The metaverse has been defined as the convergence of our physical and digital lives to create a virtual community where...
Inflight Connectivity: challenges and opportunities in Latin America
During the last two decades, satellite technology has evolved rapidly, allowing for newer commercial applications, making end-user (residential) connectivity more...
High Altitude Platform Stations can bridge the digital divide, globally. What’s missing?
High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) have the potential to reduce the digital access gap worldwide. Finding a way to make...
The Economic Opportunity of NB-IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) is critical to our future presenting solutions to major societal challenges. These include global warming,...
Africa Continental Free Trade Area: What are the opportunities for the ICT sector?
This report was co-authored with Nicholas Frimpong-Manso and Lawrence Amevor from GP Business Consulting, a premier consultancy based in Africa....
Google Cloud Region: Lifting Productivity in the Israeli Economy
The adoption of new technologies such as cloud can lead to increased efficiency and higher productivity, as they eliminate the...
The Digital Sprinters: Boosting exports through digital technologies
The digital economy is creating significant export opportunities for businesses, and digital technologies are helping to lower the costs of...
Lifting Productivity: Google Cloud Regions
Lifting Productivity: Google Cloud Regions (preliminary analysis) AlphaBeta (part of Access Partnership) has been commissioned by Google to develop preliminary...
Google’s Economic Impact in Australia: Helping build Australia’s digital future through technology
Australia has demonstrated resilience against multiple crises over the past few years, including the COVID-19 pandemic and various natural disasters....
Google Cloud Region: Lifting Productivity in the Greek Economy
The adoption of new technologies such as cloud can lead to increased efficiency and higher productivity, as they eliminate the...
Prosperous APAC: digital economy enablers
In 2021, Asia Pacific (APAC) accounted for 37% of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP), up from 26% ten years...
Propelling Korea’s global success through innovation and cultural exports
While the COVID-19 pandemic has increased risks to global economies due to supply chain disruptions and rising inflationary pressures, it...