Digital technology is changing power at a faster rate than any time in history. Distrust is fuelling political uncertainty; inequality is fuelling economic uncertainty; and massive technological change is fuelling existential uncertainty. The scaffolding built around the 20th century global order is fragile, and the checks and balances created over centuries to protect liberty are being tested, maybe to destruction. Tom Fletcher, the youngest senior British ambassador for 200 years, considers how we - as governments, businesses, individuals - can survive and thrive in the 21st century. And how we can ensure that technology helps us create opportunity, improve security, outsmart the extremists, and make it easier for citizens to truly take back control. Click here to order your copy. ...

In September 2017, I released a report for the UN Secretary General on how technology can help the UN. Drawing on contributions from young people, technology gurus, civil society, governments and business, this sets out twenty concrete ideas that can help the UN ready itself for the Digital Age. If the UN didn't exist, we would need to invent it. We hope that this report will help the UN, and its supporters, to reinvent it.   Click here to read the report.    ...

On 9 May, the UK government released our team's review of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The full version is here. The report set out suggestions for how British diplomacy can be more purposeful, agile, digital and transparent. ...

Our new report claims most people are learning the wrong things in the wrong way, proposes Global Learning Goals for all learners, and sets out the challenges we face to make them happen. ...