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The most important digital questions no longer have standard answers.

Digital Crossroads works with organisations facing questions that do not fit neatly within established disciplines, departments, or frameworks.

We combine technical expertise, cross-disciplinary research, and practical experience to help institutions understand the data economy, make better decisions, and prepare for what comes next.

Our work with organisations supports, but does not determine, the lab’s independent research agenda. We work with partners who are prepared to examine the assumptions behind a problem, not simply commission a familiar answer.
Ready for a different kind of conversation?

How we work

WORKSHOPS

Bring the right people into the room.

We design and facilitate focused working sessions for technologists, policymakers, researchers, and industry leaders tackling questions no single group can resolve alone.Each workshop is built around a clear challenge and produces something tangible: a framework, a set of recommendations, or the foundations of a prototype.
Not away-days.

Working sessions that create something new.

STRATEGIC ADVISORY

The data economy demands a different kind of strategy.

We advise senior leaders and policymakers who need rigorous, independent analysis grounded in how digital systems actually work—not vendor agendas or recycled frameworks.

We help institutions understand changing conditions, challenge inherited assumptions, identify meaningful risks and opportunities, and develop strategies for the realities of the twenty-first century.

STRATEGIC FUTURES

Prepare for structural change, not just the next trend

We combine horizon scanning, technical analysis, and scenario development to help organisations distinguish long-term change from short-term noise.Our work helps institutions understand emerging technologies, regulatory shifts, and changes in the data economy—and make considered decisions before change becomes urgent.

Structured foresight. Built on evidence.

TRAINING

Understanding the datalist economy is now a leadership requirement.


We deliver tailored training for leaders, policymakers, and teams who need more than surface-level digital-literacy.
Our programmes connect emerging technologies to the decisions institutions face—from AI governance and data infrastructure to digital finance, resilience, and new organisational models

Delivered by experienced educators, researchers, and practitioners with deep, current expertise, our training draws on decades of teaching and real-world practice. It helps organisations build the confidence, understanding, and practical capability to act in a fast-moving digital landscape.

Core People

Catherine Mulligan
Founder & Principal Researcher
Catherine Mulligan is an internationally recognised researcher, author, and adviser specialising in digital technology, the data economy, and digital sustainability.
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Catherine has advised governments, international institutions, companies, and research organisations worldwide for over 20 years. She founded Digital Crossroads to create an independent home for research into the emerging logic of Datalism.
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She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, served on the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation, and was previously a World Economic Forum Fellow. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Phil Godsiff
Principal Researcher
Dr. Phil Godsiff is a researcher and thought leader specialising in digital economy,blockchain, and financial systems. His work explores how emerging technologies are reshaping value creation, governance, and sustainability across industries. Phil holds an MA in Economics from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Management from the University of Exeter. 
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He has worked across academia and industry, contributing to research and policy discussions on digital finance, decentralised systems, and the future of economic models.

He and Mulligan have worked to create the foundations of the Datalism model over the last decade.

Advisors and Affiliates

Will Knottenbelt
Advisor
Professor Knottenbelt is a research professor at Imperial College London.  His research spans mathematical modelling, optimisation, resource allocation, decentralised finance, blockchain, and cryptocurrencies. At Digital Crossroads, he contributes expertise on decentralised systems and the economic and institutional implications of emerging digital infrastructures.
Sumedha Deshmukh
Advisor / Affiliate
Sumedha Deshmukh examines the economics and politics of digital technologies, with particular expertise in digital public infrastructure, financial inclusion, and public-sector AI. At Digital Crossroads, she contributes to research on how digital systems create public value and reshape institutional power. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge

Acknowledgement: Digital Crossroads was originally developed during a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellowship at the Robert Bosch Academy.

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If any of these conversations are relevant to the challenges your organisation is facing, we would like to hear from you. Digital Crossroads works with a small number of partners and clients at any one time - we prioritise depth over volume.
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