Digital Policy

The EU’s draft law on AI regulation leaves key questions unanswered, US policymakers say.

Trade groups and legal experts seek clarity on whether transferring data would hurt trade secrets or collide with privacy rules

Data and digital technologies can support the transition to greener and more equitable urban transportation systems. This transatlantic project looks at how public-private data-sharing and seamless mobility across transportation modes can support cities in reaching their climate and inclusion goals – across very different regulatory systems.

Not even ten years after being mentioned for the very first time, feminist foreign policy has made it into the political mainstream: the guidelines ‘Shaping a Feminist Foreign Policy’ of the German Federal Foreign Office outline a strategic shift in German foreign politics. At the same time, digital policy has become more and more international.

We are excited to announce our selection of Transatlantic Media Fellows for 2023 - including our first Global Development Policy Fellows!

Illah Nourbakhsh is professor at the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The onetime industrial city in Pennsylvania is considered one of the hubs for autonomous driving in the United States. In this interview, Professor Nourbakhsh describes the vision of driverless robot cars as mere fiction, and he warns about their implications for society.

Our second Grow the Future cohort traveled to Toronto, Pittsburgh and Washington, DC in June 2022, to discuss strategies for smart and sustainable transportation. We found that data and digital technologies can help build efficient systems, but sometimes low-tech solutions can have a bigger impact on sustainability and inclusion.

Social media in Ukraine: how advocates and historians use it

In 2022, our internship program started again, study tours traveled once more, and we deepened our work in every program area - alongside so much more!