About Us

Governments across the globe are enacting new laws and facilitating codes of conduct under an outdated set of regulatory and corporate governance models that are proving inadequate to meet today’s challenges. We will draw on a distinguished network of policy experts to identify new approaches that are designed to meet the challenges posed by today’s technological advances – in a way that is agile, open and accountable.

Experts

Ambassador Karen Kornbluh 
Senior Fellow and Director

 

 Sam duPont
Deputy Director

 

 Julie Fernandes
Non-Resident Senior Fellow,
Associate Director for 
Institutional Accountability and
Individual Liberty,
Rockefeller Family Fund
 
     
Ellen Goodman
Non-Resident Senior Fellow,
Professor, Rutgers Law School,
Co-Director and Co-Founder,
Rutgers Institute for Information
​Policy and Law		 Gene Kimmelman
Non-Resident Senior Fellow,
President and CEO,
Public Knowledge

 

 Quentin Palfrey
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
President, International Digital
Accountability Council

 
     
Michel Servoz
Non-Resident Senior Fellow,
Special Advisor to the European
Commission President for
Robotics, Artificial Intelligence,
and the Future of Labor

 

Ian Wallace
Senior Fellow

 

 Daniel J. Weitzner
Non-Resident Senior Fellow,
Founding Director,
MIT Internet Policy Research
Initiative and Principle Research
Scientist, MIT Computer Science
and Artificial Intelligence Lab 

 
     

Our Model

The U.S. and Europe will need to work together, with allies around the world, and through the international rules-based system to develop policies that enhance innovation and economic growth while also supporting democracy. We are uniquely positioned to lead the effort to connect Silicon Valley with the transatlantic policy community.

There are some who say that societal safeguards designed to mitigate some of technology’s downsides or abuses will necessarily stifle innovation. We reject this false choice between democracy and inventiveness. Democracies have generally been at the forefront of technological innovation, not least because of their responsiveness to changing needs and respect for individual rights and privacy.

Policymakers, civil society, technologists, entrepreneurs, and investors from both sides of the Atlantic have important roles to play in balancing these goals. Bridging the policy, research, civil society, and technology communities on both sides of the Atlantic, we will develop and advance solutions to align innovation with democratic values.

Our Focus Areas

  • Digital Platforms, Data, and Democracy. Identify vulnerabilities in today’s information and data ecosystems and incubate solutions that support democratic values, including transparency, data protection, competitive markets, and security.

  • Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Frontier Technologies. Develop a best practices framework to help democratic countries compete with authoritarian rivals in the development and deployment of frontier technologies.

  • Reimagining Work, Entrepreneurship, and the Social Contract. Help democracies create a new social contract for technologically-disrupted economies by rethinking work, better enabling entrepreneurship, and reforming social insurance for this new era.

Key Activities

  • Roundtables, workshops, and digital content in order to build an interdisciplinary community, fluent in the best thinking from academia, policy, and the private sector on digital and innovation policy, and to draw on that community in shaping the policy conversation.

  • A “hub” of digital and innovation policy and legal analysis for policymakers, the press, and other stakeholders in U.S. and Europe on emerging opportunities and challenges.

  • A transatlantic working group bringing together policymakers and other stakeholders from both sides of the Atlantic to craft a 21st century global framework for digital and innovation policy