US, Allies Should Launch New Tech Task Force, Experts Say
The U.S should build a new international technology task force to increase technology trade cooperation with allies, the German Marshall Fund said in a report this week. The report, authored by GMF technology policy experts Karen Kornbluh and Julia Trehu, said the task force could focus on semiconductors, green technologies and critical minerals, and would allow members to share supply chain data and “provide a venue for countries to reconcile export controls.”
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The authors argue for a new U.S. “foreign policy of technology” to better promote global rules and defend democratic principles and values. “To resolve all these tensions, the United States must plug gaps in the old, 20th-century system with new multistakeholder institutions for the digital age,” the report said. “These building blocks would constitute a new technology policy architecture to support socially responsible innovation and digital trade.”