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  AI Race
  13.07.2026 Frederic Spohr

  America Leads, China Is Catching Up, Europe Is Falling Behind

  Control over AI chatbots means power. A new FNF study shows that Chinese apps are now widely used around the world. Europe is losing ground.

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  Delegation Trip
  25.03.2026 Karen Yu

  Capturing the New Pulse of Geo-economics: Unlocking the Potential of Tech Collaboration within the Democratic Alliance

  Participating in the FNF study program to Washington, D.C. and Austin was a profound intellectual journey. As a deep-tech investor and former legislator in Taiwan, I have observed that technology is no longer merely a commercial asset.

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  Gendered Disinformation
  06.03.2026 Charlotte Zeller

  Gendered Disinformation: FNF Research series on International Women's Day

  Gendered disinformation aims to push women out of politics—through defamation, threats, and harassment. On International Women's Day, the FNF presents calls for action based on country studies.

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  Competition
  30.03.2026 Julia Lee

  FNF OSINT+ Investigation Competition 2026 - Application closed

  The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) is seeking cutting-edge open-source investigations that strengthen democratic transparency, enhance public oversight, and generate actionable, evidence-based insights on issues of public concern.

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  Quantum technologies
  07.01.2026 Céline Nauer

  Tech Radar Episode 2

  Quantum technologies have been hailed for years as the key technology of the future. Europe has a strong scientific foundation in this field.

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  Innovation for Democracy
  27.01.2026 Zoe Lee

  How Does Taiwan's Civil Society Leverage Technology and Citizen Activism to Enhance the Transparency of Parliament?

  In 2025, NGOs in Taiwan criticized the budget review process and took action. They developed a crowdsourcing social media bot and a data visualization website to monitor how legislators decided to cut or freeze budgets. Data journalist Zoe Lee from READr, who led the project, explains how Taiwan’s civic tech community advanced parliamentary transparency.

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  Innovation for Democracy
  30.12.2025 Ya-Wei Chou

  AI for Democracy, More Digital Participation Best Practices from across the World, and More in the New Digital Participation Guide!

  This year, People Powered collaborated with us again to update their Digital Participation Guide and Rating by adding a chapter on how AI can facilitate public participation, as well as including more case studies of best practice from around the world. Come and take a look!