For America to remain the global leader in IT, the U.S. government must formulate a grand strategy grounded in a new doctrine of “digital realpolitik.” The first priority should be advancing U.S. interests by spreading the U.S. digital innovation policy system and constraining digital adversaries, especially China. This will entail working with allies when possible—and pressuring them when necessary.

A U.S. Grand Strategy for the Global Digital Economy

An increasingly digitalized global economy requires ever-more digitally skilled workforces for nations to remain productive. Unfortunately, domestic and international assessments of digital skills show the United States is lagging its competitors.

Assessing the State of Digital Skills in the U.S. Economy

The federal government has long avoided industrial policies outside of its defense sector. But now, facing competition from China, it is pursuing a series of new programs at a scale never tried before. The effort will require careful, system-wide planning to bear fruit.

Emerging Industrial Policy Approaches in the United States

Protecting children from online harms requires a careful balance between ensuring safety and safeguarding free speech, user privacy, and parents’ rights. The most effective approach would split responsibility between the government, parents, and online services.

How to Address Children’s Online Safety in the United States

The United States could regain its position as a global leader on digital policy by prioritizing a pro-innovation agenda, cooperating with its allies to advance free trade and democratic values, and pushing back against harmful narratives and policies.

Restoring US Leadership on Digital Policy

The G7 should develop a pragmatic agenda to bring the “Data Free Flow with Trust” initiative to life. If it doesn’t, building an open, rights-respecting, and innovative global digital economy only gets harder as China and others fill the vacuum from the lack of global digital cooperation.

How the G7 Can Use “Data Free Flow With Trust” to Build Global Data Governance

North American governments need to coordinate and enact an ambitious and coordinated series of trade, technology, and innovation policies, while rolling back existing protectionist policies that impede deeper integration.

Comments to USTR Regarding the Work of the North American Competitiveness Committee

Both the National Cyber Secuirty Strategy and the implementation plan of the strategy reflect a cohesive effort to enhance cybersecurity in the United States. However, there is one glaring problem: the strategy is virtually silent on the impact that AI will have on cybersecurity.

White House Should Update Cybersecurity Strategy to Consider Impact of AI

Australia’s Privacy Act review is happening as the global debate about data flows, governance, privacy, cybersecurity, and trade heats up with growing points of friction, and potential interoperability, emerging between different countries and regions. This submission focuses on how Australia’s revised Privacy Act (the Review Report) should be amended to manage issues and initiatives related to cross-border data flows and global data governance.

Comments to Attorney-General’s Department Regarding Australia’s Privacy Act Review

The EU’s new cloud cybersecurity regime should focus on good security practices, as the U.S. FedRAMP regime does. Emulating China’s protectionist focus on firm nationality is a bad security practice that weakens transatlantic influence over cybersecurity issues globally.

Europe’s Cloud Security Regime Should Focus on Technology, Not Nationality

China and other countries with poor human rights records are trying to influence international standards mainly through the International Telecommunications Union. So, the Office of the High Commissioner should focus attention there to address the most problematic proposals for technical standards with clear and troubling human rights implications.

Comments to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Regarding Technical Standard-Setting Processes

Restrictive data policies coming into effect in Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Vietnam will measurably increase import costs and reduce trade volumes, undermining the broader economic role of data. Policymakers should change course or else be left behind in the race for digital development.

The Cost of Data Localization Policies in Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Vietnam

Continued leadership in high-performance computing (HPC) as it enters the exascale era remains a key pillar of U.S. industrial competitiveness, economic power, and national security readiness. Policymakers need to sustain investments in HPC applications, infrastructure, and skills to keep America at the leading edge.

A New Frontier: Sustaining U.S. High-Performance Computing Leadership in an Exascale Era

As the Biden administration works with its EU counterparts through the new U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC), it should hold firm in defending the superior U.S. innovation system. To that end, U.S. negotiators must first clarify their positions on at least four strategic questions.

Advancing U.S. Goals in the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council

Data-localization policies are spreading rapidly around the world. This measurably reduces trade, slows productivity and increases prices for affected industries. Like-minded nations must work together to stem the tide and build an open, rules-based, and innovative digital economy.

How Barriers to Cross-Border Data Flows Are Spreading Globally, What They Cost, and How to Address Them

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Daniel Castro presents on the impact of AI on cybersecurity.

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Daniel Castro presents on the impact of AI on cybersecurity at an event hosted by Dar America in Casablanca.

The Impact of AI on Cybersecurity

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