New committee will bring fresh ideas to address tech policy challenges
The global tech race is accelerating and authoritarian regimes are undermining democracies through cyber warfare and digital disinformation. Businesses, the public sector and civil society increasingly engage with digital technologies and data-driven agendas, but there is a lack of clear visions for where we should be heading. The new CPH Tech Policy Committee addresses these challenges.
"All countries are lagging behind when it comes to developing tech policy because technology is moving extremely fast - much faster than policymakers", Rebecca Adler-Nissen explains.
Rebecca Adler-Nissen is Chair of the CPH Tech Policy Committee, Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen and Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS).
The digital age underlines the need for a forum that brings Danish and international voices together in a conversation about emerging ideas and practices. This is why SODAS and the Crown Princess Mary Centre have established the CPH Tech Policy Committee. The Committee brings together national and international experts in the global tech policy field to discuss current and future tech policy challenges anddraws on insights from state-of-the-art research. To enrich the tech policy debate, the forum brings Danish experiences with digitalization and society into a conversation with international practices and the other way around.
"We need to ensure that we do not overlook unintended consequences of the often pragmatic choices we make as society and individuals when it comes to digitalization, but we must also push for more coherent ideas and a research-informed tech policy in Denmark and beyond" - Rebecca Adler-Nissen.
Research-based meetings
The Committee brings together world-leading scholars and professionals with leading positions in the private, public, philanthropic and civil society sectors for focused, evidence-based discussions on emerging ideas and practices shaping the future of tech policy. Partners meet four times a year, and each meeting builds on new research.
At the latest Committee meeting, the subject was new research on the urban-rural divide in smartphone usage by Anna Sapienza, Postdoc at SODAS and Laura Alessandretti, Assistant Professor in Computer Science at DTU. Read more about this research in the CPH Tech Policy Brief.
All partners participate in their personal capacity. See the list of partners here.