Lobby organisation
Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment
Think tank or academic body · Technology & digital also Think tanks & research · HQ: Australia · Transparency Register entry
As of 7 November 2026, Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment appears in 10 declared MEP meetings (10 different MEPs), most often with Socialists & Democrats.
In their own words
“The Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment ('GIDE') is committed to ensuring citizens become active participants in the digital economy, irrespective of their country's level of development. While we recognise that different countries deal with different digital obstacles, we argue that many can be better solved by re-balancing the current power structures of online interactions.”
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“This can be achieved through strong representation rights and institutions, by applying to digital interactions long-standing fiduciary rules of the offline world, and by ensuring that artificial intelligence actors embed in their algorithms human-first and human-needs features to their tools.”
Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing.
Who they meet, and when
Which groups they meet
Share of this organisation's 10 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.
Meetings by year
Declared meetings per calendar year, 2023–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (6 in 2026). Hatched: 2026 is a part-year - the record runs to 6 Nov 2026.
Group is each MEP's current political group, not necessarily the one they sat with at the time. Shares are rounded to whole percent.
The MEPs they meet most
The 10 most recent declared meetings
| Date | MEP | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Jan 2026 | Birgit Sippel | Control over personal data |
| 19 Jan 2026 | Bruno Gonçalves | ITRE policies |
| 14 Jan 2026 | Julie Rechagneux | Digital Omnibus |
| 14 Jan 2026 | Eva Maydell | EU Tech Agenda |
| 14 Jan 2026 | Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová | Digital Omnibus |
| 13 Jan 2026 | Barbara Bonte | Digital Security |
| 21 Nov 2024 | Axel Voss | Digital files |
| 12 Sep 2024 | Alex Agius Saliba | Innovation for the Digital Economy Act |
| 24 May 2023 | Marina Kaljurand | Data governance |
| 23 May 2023 | Christel Schaldemose | personal data governance |
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