Our Mission

We believe that technology holds the answer to fixing our unproductive economy, to solving global challenges like climate change and to transforming our public services to become more efficient for tax payers and more effective for users.

But it’s also clear that, unregulated, technology can have negative or unintended consequences.

From the anti-competitive impact of global tech giants and the need to change rules on taxation, to ensure wealth is equally distributed and workers continue to have meaningful and well paid jobs. The state must play an important role in getting the balance right.

But this isn’t just about the future: today, our police forces are using automated facial recognition technologies without proper rules in place, our NHS is being opened up to private technology companies with little oversight and workers are already being displaced due to automation. And our schools are not teaching the skills needed for the jobs of the future.

Here at Labour Digital, we seek to understand the opportunities and the challenges of technology and to share that insight with colleagues within the Labour Party through our work.