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title: Emerging Issues
description: This subject examines contemporary, rapidly evolving challenges in public policy, such as technological disruption, climate change, and global health crises. Learners will understand how policymakers analyze and respond to novel societal problems.
category: social-sciences
subcategory: public-policy-and-administration
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/emerging-issues
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# Emerging Issues

This subject examines contemporary, rapidly evolving challenges in public policy, such as technological disruption, climate change, and global health crises. Learners will understand how policymakers analyze and respond to novel societal problems.

## Available Resources

1 Courses • 2 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Pew Research Center - Policy Issues

Pew's politics and policy hub collects survey reports, demographic breakdowns, and long-run trend data on issues like immigration, healthcare, and technology regulation. Useful for grounding arguments about emerging public debates in measured American public opinion rather than punditry.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/politics-policy/

**Tags:** public-opinion, survey-data, public-policy, politics, social-trends

### 2. oecd.org/ai

OECD AI is the OECD’s central hub for artificial intelligence policy and analysis, featuring policy briefs, guidelines, data, and research on AI governance, ethics, and socio-economic impacts. It provides practical resources and case studies to help governments and stakeholders address emerging AI issues.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://oecd.org/ai

**Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, public-policy-administration

## Courses

### 1. Digital Governance

Big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomous cars, chatbots, just a few terms that have become a part of our professional legal and political vocabulary. Emerging technologies and technological advancement have confronted us in our daily practice and will continue to do so in the future. Whether we’re buying something online, taking part in an election, or chatting with friends across the globe. Technology is here and it is here to stay. However, as convenience as these new technologies may seem, they also have disruptive effects on society and pose us for legal and political challenges. These challenges are central to this MOOC on digital governance. 

After participating in this MOOC:
-	You are aware of the impact and effect of emerging technologies on law and politics.
-	You can identify risks and challenges of digitization in relation to EU law, markets and economics. 
-	You understand the interconnectedness of problems, questions and solutions. 
-	You are able to break down a concrete case of digitalization impact into a sub problem.
-	You can allocate problems to various fields of science or sub-fields of law.

But most importantly, you will have a lot of fun and inspiration following this course, designed by an international community of legal experts in the field of digital governance. Come with us on the journey!

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Duration:** 8 weeks of study, 4 hours per week | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/digitalgovernance

**Tags:** courses, humanities-social-sciences, public-policy-administration

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