18 – Digital ecosystems that empower communities: Exploring case studies to develop theory and templates for technology stacks

This report is the first from Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI)’s Digital Ecosystem project. The concept of digital ecosystems aims to empower communities with digital technologies to enhance their capacity to solve problems and address challenging issues they face. This report presents and discusses the digital ecosystems concept, lays out a proposed methodology to explore the concept further using case studies, and then presents some case studies from various communities gathered by the project team. The report concludes with some suggested future research directions and observations from the project’s work over 2024.