US-EU Tech Partnership: Promoting Values Abroad and Enhancing Trade, Security, and Economic Prosperity

As part of NSI’s year-long programming on smart innovation policy, we hosted our second event of a four-part series on US-EU partnership in technology innovation, “US-EU Tech Partnership: Promoting Values Abroad and Enhancing Trade, Security, and Economic Prosperity”. This panel will examine the successes of the US-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC), and how it relates to international security, enhances economic prosperity for both the US and the EU, and discuss what more the TTC can do in the future.

Participants:

• Dr. Frances Burwell, Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council; Senior Director, McLarty Associates
• Steve Lang, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Information and Communications Policy, Department of State
• Scott Cullinane (moderator), Executive Director, US-Europe Alliance

Quotes from the Conversation:

“It’s about promoting an affirmative democratic vision of technology in our future… We are inherently countering authoritarian approaches.” — Steve Lang, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Information and Communications Policy, Department of State

“Digital sovereignty has as many meanings as the people who use it.” — Dr. Frances Burwell, Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council; Senior Director, McLarty Associates

“The TTC is a valuable forum overall… and has helped develop connective tissues in these areas to allow counterparts to interact more regularly.” — Steve Lang, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Information and Communications Policy, Department of State

“A national privacy law would help with the transfers of data between the United States and Europe.” — Dr. Frances Burwell, Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council Senior Director, McLarty Associates.