April 19, 2023 Annual Report 2022-2023 Author(s): Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy Credit: Pexels Over the last year, our team accelerated our agenda through academic research, policy engagement, and real-world reach and impact. At the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, we produce critical research to reimagine society’s relationship to digital technologies through evidence-based change. Our work uses research to build society’s capacity to hold tech power systems to account in order to create a just future. Over the last year, our team accelerated our agenda through academic research, policy engagement, and real-world reach and impact. We have continued engaging closely with legislative developments globally, such as the Online Safety Bill in the UK and regulatory developments in the USA, including with the Federal Trade Commission on commercial surveillance and data security. Our researcher Evani Radiya-Dixit’s tremendous work examining the complexities and challenges that exist when police forces use facial recognition technologies has received global interest. Through Evani’s work, we now have a set of tools that extend beyond policing to help advance public conversations about the values that we as a society should seek to protect. The year ahead promises to be our busiest yet as new projects come on stream including the Digital Good Network, a consortium of 10 partners exploring the digital good; AI4Trust, a 17-partner HORIZON Europe collaboration to tackle mis- and disinformation; and the Humanitarian Action Programme, a new collaboration between CRASSH at the University of Cambridge and the International Committee of the Red Cross. This ground-breaking programme will examine how digital transformation and new technologies are impacting or are likely to impact in the future humanitarian action. This annual report covers the period April 2022 to March 2023 and outlines our achievements and future plans. It is imperative that we build a just digital society. The Centre will continue to deliver on this goal in the year ahead, and we look forward to expanding our programmes and partnerships to do so.