Data & Technology Politics
New digital technologies enable creativity, connect the world, and provide public goods and essential services. They also challenge conventional notions of privacy, facilitate crime, and enable surveillance and oppression. How and to which end these data-driven technologies are used is determined by political, corporate, societal, and individual choices. With two billion new – mostly non-Western – users expected to go online in the coming years, the political and economic stakes are rising. Contests over global rules for technologies and data transfer will only continue to heat up. We aim to contribute toward sound political, corporate, and societal choices through research, policy advice, and the fostering of strategic communities.
“As Large of a Lead as Possible”?
With Donald Trump’s inauguration around the corner, we took stock of the Biden administration’s track record on Critical and Emerging Technologies. How effective were the US measures to promote and protect American tech, specifically vis-à-vis China? And did they further US national interests?
Neurotechnology: Considerations for Foreign and Security Policy
This project analyzes the rapidly developing field of neurotechnology from the perspectives of foreign and security policy. How might Germany take on a strategic position in the global neurotechnology ecosystem?
Mitigating Disinformation in Europe
What is the state of disinformation – and efforts to counter it – on the continent? How are civil society and private actors faring in their part of the fight against disinformation? And how can policymakers better support them?
Maritime Infrastructure Protection: Agenda for a Secure and Resilient Undersea Cable Network
To advise German policymakers on how to safeguard fiber-optic cable systems, GPPi is mapping the security strategies emerging at the national, regional and global levels.
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Funding and Contact
Our Transatlantic Digital Debates dialogue program, conducted together with New America’s Open Technology Institute, is generously supported by the Transatlantic Program of the German Federal Government, with funding from the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Additional support is provided by Microsoft.
For more information, please contact Wade Hoxtell.
Transatlantic Digital Debates 2022
Digitalization is radically transforming our societies, creating new opportunities as well as regulatory challenges. There is a need to work toward a better understanding of these developments and define new global rules and standards that enable us to jointly shape our digital futures.
The Transatlantic Digital Debates (TDD) are a joint initiative of GPPi and New America’s Open Technology Institute. It brings together 18 German and American young professionals to work on challenges at the intersection of tech and policy. Over the course of 2022, participants will meet for two week-long sessions to engage in problem-oriented dialogue on key issues related to online platform regulation, data governance and more.
