DESC Workshop and Public Policy Panel

 

Digital Economy and Security Collaborative (DESC) Workshop and Public Policy Panel

On April 28th-29th, 2022, the Digital Economy and Security Collaborative (DESC) hosted a workshop that built on our DESC speaker series, where over 30 scholars from across the globe met in-person and on Zoom to discuss the key issues at the intersection of the global digital economy and national security.

The DESC workshop conversations aimed to focus on overcoming the silos currently existing between scholarship on the tech economy and on national security. Participants discussed a variety of issues ranging from what questions need to be asked about how the digital economy and security interact, to what the key theoretical and empirical developments need to occur for us to better grapple with today’s digital transnational politics.

Workshop participants prepared short memos that launched our discussions in each issue area, with our facilitators providing an initial response. Memo topics included AI governance, platform power and data, platform companies and security governance, economic interdependence and cyber conflict, and many more.

To kick off the workshop, we hosted a public policy panel titled “Digital Markets in an Age of Geostrategic Conflict” on Wednesday, April 27th followed by a cocktail reception at the Mortara Center. Our guest speakers included Samm Sacks (Cyber Policy Fellow, New America), Karen Kornbluh (Director, Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative, German Marshall Fund), and Igor Mikolic-Torreira (Director of Analysis, Center for Security & Emerging Technology). The panel was chaired by GPEP co-director Abe Newman.

You can view a recording of the public policy panel event here.

DESC Workshop Participants: 

William Akoto, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Fordham University

Maha Atal-Rafi, Assistant Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow

Guillaume Beaumier, GPEP Fellow, Mortara Center for International Studies, Georgetown University

Dan Byman, Professor, School of Foreign Service and Department of Government, Georgetown University

Elena Chachko, Rappaport Fellow, Harvard Law School, Harvard University

Ling Chen, Assistant Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Laura DeNardis, Professor, School of Communication, American University

Henry Farrell, SNF Agora Professor of International Affairs, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Lars Gjesvik, Research Fellow Center for Digitalization and Cyber Security Studies, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

Stacie Goddard, Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College

Anita Gohdes, Professor of International and Cyber Security, Hertie School in Berlin

Jonas Heering, Bunker Fellow Institute for the Study of Diplomacy and PhD Student, Department of Government, Georgetown University

Sarah Kreps, Associate Professor, Department of Government, Cornell University

Siyao Li, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, incoming Assistant Professor of International Affairs, Graduate School of Public & International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh

Jon Lindsay, Associate Professor, School of Cybersecurity and Privacy, Georgia Institute of Technology

Lizhi Liu, Assistant Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University

Kathleen McNamara, Professor, Department of Government and School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Michael Murphree, Assistant Professor, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina

Abraham Newman, Professor, School of Foreign Service and Department of Government, Georgetown University

Harry Oppenheimer, Ph.D Candidate Department of Government, Harvard University

Philip Rogers, GPEP Fellow, Mortara Center for International Studies, Georgetown University and PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley

Sergey Sanovich, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University

Jackie Schnieder, Hoover Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Meicen Sun, GPEP Fellow, Mortara Center for International Studies, Georgetown University, PhD Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, incoming Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University and incoming Assistant Professor,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Information Sciences

Thorsten Theil, Political Scientist, Weizenbaum Institute

Kenton Thibaut, Ph.D Student, Department of Government, Georgetown University

Stephen Weymouth, Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University

Thomas Zeitzoff, Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs, American University

BaoBao Zhang, Assistant Professor, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University