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Data: Governance and Geopolitics

By: Gregory Treverton & Pari Esfandiari Big data is often perceived as the black gold of the twenty-first century. Despite its fundamental differences with oil, it is indeed as critical, a fact tragically underscored by the lack…

Data: Governance and Geopolitics

Gregory F. Treverton and Pari Esfandiari Big data is often perceived as the black gold of the twenty-first century. Despite its fundamental differences with oil, it is indeed as critical, a fact tragically underscored by the lack of…

The Arctic Experience

A study by the Global TechnoPolitics Forum's associate Paul Ross In the last years of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev deemed the Arctic, his country’s “extreme North,” a “Zone of Peace.” And so it has…

G20 Leaders Meeting

Riyadh will welcome G20 leaders to the 2020 Leaders’ Summit, as the culmination of the Saudi G20 Presidency, on November 21-22, 2020.​ ​​​ Read more

Why data governance matters:

By Pari Esfandiari and Gregory F. Treverton Data governance may be a somewhat hackneyed phrase, but to the extent that data is governed, that governance is a byproduct in part of the governing of the internet. The World Summit on…

Data, Governance and GeoPolitics

Click to view the descussion Presented by Oxford Internet Institute in Collaboration with Global TechnoPolitics Forum October 28th, 2020 at 1700 UK time, 1 PM EST Hosted by Professor Philip Howard, Director of the OII. The…

Europe’s digital sovereignty

From rulemaker to superpower in the age of US-China rivalry The year 2020 will be remembered as the year of the pandemic, but also as the year when our world restarted on a new course,…

Ads + Privacy + Blockchain + Crypto =…

Brave Software, founded by the inventor of the Javascript programming language, and NYIAX, an advertising marketplace built on Nasdaq technology, just announced it. Brands can now choose to show ads only to people who have specifically…

The Tech Cold War Could Cost $3.5 Trillion

A full-fledged tech cold war could cost the global information and communications technology sector around $3.5 trillion over the next five years due to loss of domestic Chinese demand, costs of shifting global supply chain…