Principles
Principles that form the basis of Trust and protect freedoms. There principles enable fast, frictionless, and secure collaboration.
- Integrity
- Accountability
- Transparency
- Reciprocity
Respect for:
- Rule of Law
- Property
- Sovereignty of Nations
- Planet
- Human Rights
Trust
Commission Comparisons
- Coalition of 15 Nations
- Inc/All Designated Nat’l Security Tech Sectors
- Multi-Sector Transformational Expertise
- Practical Defensive & Offensive Strategies
- Public/Private Partnership Led
- Build Network w/ 27 Advisory Councils
- Buy-in & Implementation Focused
- Utilize Proven Tech Statecraft Model
- Unifying Principle: Trust
- 1-Key Metric: Adoption of Trusted
Other Tech Commissions
- US Centric
- Limited to 1-5 Tech Sectors
- Lack of Transformational Leadership Experience
- Constrained to Policy Recommendations
- Government Only or Private Sector Only
- More Inward Looking
- Report Focused
- Proven Models Did Not Exist
- Unifying Principle: ?
- Key Metric: Quality of Report
Objectives
Our experts provide research, training, and policy recommendations on tech sectors that are vital to U.S. foreign policy and national security interests
Tech Sectors
The Commission is focused on technologies that are critical to American and allied national security and foreign policy, and advocates for a global tech agenda that reflects freedom, democracy, and human rights.
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The key to securing freedom for the next generation is securing technology. Tomorrow’s tech must be trusted tech developed and protected by a Global Trust Network of like-minded countries, companies, and individuals who respect the rule of law, human rights, labor practices, national sovereignty, and the environment.
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We will win. But for us to safely mine the technology pool created by the great minds of our private sector companies, we have to have standards, agreements. Nobody must be able to blow up what we trust in technology, and for that indeed we need the Global Tech Security Commission.
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Political news site, Axios, published highlights from Monday’s Krach Institute/Global Tech Security Commission panel discussion on Artificial Intelligence. During the discussion, Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.) called for the creation of a House committee dedicated to AI. This is the first time a member of Congress has publicly called for a new Congressional body dedicated to tackling AI issues.
A group of distinguished bipartisan leaders in foreign policy and national security, including Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Todd Young (R-IN), and Bill Hagerty (R-TN), as well as Representatives Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), serving as Honorary Co-Chairs of the Global Tech Security Commission, have issued a call to their fellow Members of Congress to join the effort to develop a Global Tech Security Strategy to defend freedom against technological authoritarianism.
It does not take a Ph.D. in international affairs to understand the common threads that underpin the China-Russia partnership. Both governments are known for lawless behavior, duplicity, bullying, domestic oppression, coercive economic practices, and grave human rights abuses.
Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Indiana Gov. Eric J. Holcomb joined Blinken and Raimondo on a tour of Purdue’s Birck Nanotechnology Center, highlighting the leading-edge research and workforce development efforts at Purdue that can help the United States restore domestic semiconductor manufacturing and competitiveness abroad.
Europe’s energy woes, in the wake of the Russia–Ukraine war, should spur us to take the question seriously
Welcoming the CHIPS Act being signed into law, Keith Krach, former Under Secretary of State and Chairman of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, said, “This is a big day for America – for national security, our global economic security, and our long-term prosperity. The investment will create thousands of jobs across the entire supply chain and create a broad ripple effect of technical training and know-how throughout the tech ecosystem.”
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