Today, we are proud to release #Tech2021 - a collection of 15 turnkey policy proposals for the next administration to unlock an innovative and equitable digital democracy: https://www.gmfus.org/publications/tech2021-ideas-digital-democracy
. @HurdOnTheHill writes in his Foreword: The next administration needs a comprehensive tech agenda to spur innovation, leverage tech within government, and work with allies to ensure democratic values drive development of these tools. #Tech2021 https://www.gmfus.org/publications/tech2021-foreword-will-hurd
. @IlvesToomas of @FSIStanford: The United States should create secure digital identities for individuals and resilient data architectures for government to improve delivery of government services. #Tech2021
https://www.gmfus.org/publications/unlocking-digital-governance
https://www.gmfus.org/publications/unlocking-digital-governance
. @rehundt of @cgreencapital: The federal government should create and capitalize a National Green Bank to spur investment in clean technology and ensure an equitable transition to 100% clean energy. #Tech2021 https://www.gmfus.org/publications/investing-future-national-bank-green-tech
. @LaraMangravite & @wilbanks of @SageBio: The government should subsidize cloud computing to allow scientific researchers to take advantage of open data while protecting individual privacy. #Tech2021 https://www.gmfus.org/publications/leveraging-open-data-national-open-computing-strategy
. @ellgood of @rutgersiipl: The federal government should invest in boosting quality information through free or cheap broadband and protocols and tools to help users access data, verify information, and filter signal from noise. #Tech2021 https://www.gmfus.org/publications/building-civic-infrastructure-21st-century
. @cardon_edward & Harvey Rishikof & @thedberg: The federal government should address security risks in our critical technology supply chains by shifting responsibility for risk to prime vendors. #Tech2021 https://www.gmfus.org/publications/mitigating-supply-chain-risk-component-security-not-enough
#RashidaRichardson of @rutgersiipl: The federal government should assess the risks of predictive analytics and prevent harmful and discriminatory applications of these technologies. #Tech2021 https://www.gmfus.org/publications/addressing-harmful-effects-predictive-analytics-technologies
. @qpalfrey of @IDACwatchdog: The U.S. government should pass a federal privacy law and increase accountability for companies handling data through law enforcement and digital privacy watchdogs. #Tech2021 https://www.gmfus.org/publications/advancing-digital-trust-privacy-rules-and-accountability
. @LauraTaylorKale: The United States can bolster worker mobility with universal broadband access, universal licensing reciprocity, and ensuring that benefits are portable from job to job. #Tech2021 https://www.gmfus.org/publications/prioritizing-workforce-mobility-age-digital-transformation
. @afbobrow of @4rsllc: For cybersecurity to become a fully risk-based discipline, we need a Bureau of Cyber Statistics; a competition to design metrics for predicting cyber risk would push this effort into reality. #Tech2021 https://www.gmfus.org/publications/launching-cyber-risk-grand-challenge
. @swdp: The United States should combat digital trade barriers and ensure a competitive global digital economy by leading negotiations toward a plurilateral digital trade agreement. #Tech2021 https://www.gmfus.org/publications/strengthening-global-internet-digital-trade-agreement
. @pianwallace: The federal government should launch an effort to recruit and train a cohort of Tech Strategists to ensure effective implementation of a national industrial strategy. #Tech2021 https://www.gmfus.org/publications/establishing-tech-strategist-cohort-across-federal-government
. @thetenthkabir & @TilmanEhrbeck of @flourishvc: The United States should enable instant payments, digital identities, and a sound credit-scoring system to empower financial consumers, ensure fairness, and expand access to finance. #Tech2021 https://www.gmfus.org/publications/upgrading-digital-financial-infrastructure-fairness
. @PatentScholar of @StanfordLaw & Heidi Williams of @SIEPR: The federal government can spur innovation with targeted reforms to the patent system that enhance transparency. #Tech2021 https://www.gmfus.org/publications/reforming-patent-system-support-innovation
. @R_D of @MIT_CSAIL & @MIT_CIS & @MITEECS: Governments must undertake the hard, unglamorous, crucial work of translating ethical principles for AI into policy practice. #Tech2021 https://www.gmfus.org/publications/averting-crisis-confidence-artificial-intelligence
. @KarenKornbluh: The federal government should change platform incentives to that expectations for fairness in the analog world are honored in the digital world. #Tech2021
https://www.gmfus.org/publications/protecting-democracy-and-public-health-online-disinformation
https://www.gmfus.org/publications/protecting-democracy-and-public-health-online-disinformation
. @cmschroed writes: #Tech2021 pushes us to stop sleepwalking toward predictable outcomes, offering clear, actionable ideas that the next administration must prioritize to advance innovation, increase economic opportunity and strengthen democratic values. https://www.gmfus.org/publications/tech2021-foreword-christopher-schroeder