Global Partners Programme

Global Partners Programme

Much of the current research on digital Trust, Identity, Privacy, Security and Safety (TIPSS) takes place in the context of developed western economics. Yet globally, countries with rapidly developing digital economies face significant research challenges in these areas.

In January 2026, we invited UK based SPRITE+ members to submit proposals for our “TIPS in Global Context: Identifying Untapped Research Opportunities” programme.

The objective of the programme is to enable new scholarly collaborations between UK researchers from the SPRITE+ network and researchers from low and middle-income economies.

Exploring Cyber Resilience and Security in an African Context

This international project will explore cyber resilience challenges across Africa, in partnership with the Africa Cyber Defence Forum (ACDF).

Community-Driven Digital Financial Inclusion: Negotiating Trust, Risk and Security in Non-Urban Thailand

This project will build on the Thailand-UK World-Class University Consortium to establish a new interdisciplinary sub-network focused on TIPS challenges in Thailand’s non-urban digital economies.

Bridging the Digital Divide in Online Tracking Protection in Ghana

This project aims to conduct the first comprehensive socio-technical study in Ghana to understand the disparities between tracking protection mechanisms available to users and the methods they actually employ.