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The Glass State
A capital built of glass, and a government with nothing to hide. Scroll down into it: inside the dome, each chamber is one part of the state we report on.
Scroll down through the chambers.
A capital of glass
At its centre, a rotunda with six chambers: how the state decides, what it knows, who it says you are, how it defends itself, what it serves, and where it builds.
Glass walls
That is the standard we hold governments to, and ourselves: every fact with its source, every figure with its date.
National digital strategies, legislation and the political choices that shape how states go online.
- This week
- 4 new stories
- This month
- 8 countries
- EPA's Carter Farmer is the White House pick for federal CIO, sources say30 Sept
- Britain's social media rules for under-18s will take effect in March 202729 Sept
- White House tells agencies to call AI "super intelligence" and signs a safety accord with tech leaders29 Sept
Algorithms in public administration, data sharing between agencies and the rules that keep both in check.
- This week
- 2 new stories
- This month
- 10 countries
- US immigration agency wants AI agents to write and test its software30 Sept
- Small Business Administration piloted AI to find pandemic loan fraud without required safeguards29 Sept
- London links records from 45 organisations to follow people through the homelessness system26 Sept
Wallets, eIDs and the infrastructure that lets citizens prove who they are online.
- This week
- 12 new stories
- This month
- 18 countries
- India plans to take Aadhaar abroad for its diaspora1 Oct
- Finland and Bulgaria put EU wallet supervisors in place, three months before the deadline1 Oct
- New Zealand tightens the rules for accredited digital identity providers1 Oct
Ransomware, resilience and sovereignty: how governments defend the systems citizens depend on.
- This week
- 8 new stories
- This month
- 12 countries
- Hackers linked to China posed as former US officials to target AI policy experts1 Oct
- Police take down KillSec ransomware and arrest its suspected leader, aged 161 Oct
- London's railway facial recognition trial scanned 500,000 faces and produced no arrests30 Sept
Benefits, tax, health and licensing: the services people actually touch, and how they are being rebuilt.
- This week
- 6 new stories
- This month
- 8 countries
- Farmers' services will join America.gov in 2027, says the agriculture secretary30 Sept
- America.gov opens: one AI search box for the federal government30 Sept
- Accessibility experts sound the alarm over a takeover of the US Web Design System29 Sept
Mobility, sensors, digital twins and the municipal teams turning data into better streets.
- This week
- 2 new stories
- This month
- 6 countries
- Chicago proposes a 12-month pause on data centres while it writes rules, as 49 cities sign a pact30 Sept
- London plans one licence for dockless e-bikes, ending a 33-borough patchwork29 Sept
- Hong Kong upgrades crossings with talking signals and an app for blind pedestrians25 Sept
The view from the dome
From the top of the dome you can see every government at once.