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The race to secure 5G networks: Another Sputnik moment for the United States?

AfricaSource Jun 30, 2025

Africa’s game revolution is loading

By Tom Bonsundy-O’Bryan

With the right investment, infrastructure, and visibility, Africa won’t just be a player in the global gaming industry—it will be the one pushing it forward.
Africa Economy & Business
The race to secure 5G networks: Another Sputnik moment for the United States?

New Atlanticist Apr 23, 2025

How the US retreat from the UN endangers the future of internet governance

By Konstantinos Komaitis

A recent meeting of an obscure United Nations body reveals how the Trump administration is challenging decades of consensus-based work on internet development.
Internet Technology & Innovation
The race to secure 5G networks: Another Sputnik moment for the United States?

New Atlanticist Mar 25, 2025

Starlink’s India launch is a crash course on New Delhi’s approach to tech sovereignty

By Trisha Ray

A recently announced partnership to deploy the Elon Musk-led company’s satellite internet in India offers a window into New Delhi’s “hybrid” approach.
Economy & Business India

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The Atlantic Council Technology Programs comprises five existing efforts—the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), the GeoTech Center, the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, the Democracy + Tech Initiative, and the Capacity Building Initiative. These operations work together to address the geopolitical implications of technology and provide policymakers and global stakeholders necessary research, insights, and convenings to address challenges around global technology and ensure its responsible advancement.

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New Atlanticist

Dec 9, 2019

The race to secure 5G networks: Another Sputnik moment for the United States?

By James L. Jones, Jr.

Another Sputnik moment could be upon us, but this time the threat comes from China. What is urgently needed is another “JFK like” moment where the president takes to the nation the fact that we are in a struggle the likes of which we have not seen before.

China Internet
Kremlin digital tools

Article

Nov 18, 2019

The Kremlin augments its digital tools for cracking down on protesters

By Givi Gigitashvili

Violent police crackdowns are not the only tactic protesters in Russia can expect, as they have also been subject to an increasing use of digital technologies as tools for intimidation.

Conflict Disinformation

Blog Post

Oct 3, 2019

A digital agenda for the new European Commission: issues and opportunities

By Jörn Fleck and Alex Baker

Under the outgoing European Commission of President Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Union has emerged as the regulatory superpower of the global digital economy. Early signs indicate Brussels will continue to leverage the power of the single market and its regulatory approach when a new Commission takes office in November 2019.

Digital Policy European Union

New Atlanticist

Oct 2, 2019

Europe’s new commission: The outlook for digital policy

By Frances Burwell

A quick look at how the new European Commission will line up on digital policy.

Cybersecurity Digital Policy

Issue Brief

Sep 12, 2019

US surveillance on trial in Europe: Will transatlantic digital commerce be collateral damage?

By Kenneth Propp

In this issue brief, Kenneth Propp, non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative, examines the existing transatlantic data-transfer mechanisms, the landmark court case that could invalidate them, and the divergent US and EU approaches to data transfers across borders and privacy standards.

Digital Policy Europe & Eurasia
Operation Secondary Infektion

Report

Jun 22, 2019

Operation Secondary Infektion

By Nika Aleksejeva, Lukas Andriukaitis, Luiza Bandeira, Donara Barojan, Graham Brookie, Eto Buziashvili, Andy Carvin, Kanishk Karan, Ben Nimmo, Iain Robertson, and Michael Sheldon

A Russian-based information operation used fake accounts, forged documents, and dozens of online platforms to spread stories.

Disinformation English

New Atlanticist

Jun 5, 2019

Dark Web 2.0?

By Jared Zimmerman

We will likely see a smaller dark web orbiting around a sophisticated criminal core using newer, but less user-friendly, anonymization protocols, while other criminals will need to operate in plain sight on the clear web to reach less-savvy customers.

Cybersecurity Digital Policy

New Atlanticist

May 20, 2019

The Christchurch call and the failure of US leadership

By Emerson T. Brooking

The United States’ snubbing of the document represents a retreat from previous counterterrorism pledges. It also reveals a dangerous divide between the White House and US allies regarding the growing threat of white ethno-nationalist extremism.

Disinformation English

New Atlanticist

May 15, 2019

Dial 911: Trump’s telecommunications national emergency

By Ashish Kumar Sen

US President Donald J. Trump on May 15 declared a “national emergency” that gives his administration the power to prevent US companies from doing business with foreign suppliers, including, potentially, Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.

China Defense Technologies

Article

May 7, 2019

Anti-LGBT Facebook Posts Proliferate in Georgia Before Tbilisi Pride

By Eto Buziashvili

Anti-Western and far-right Facebook pages began to disseminate anti-LGBT content following the announcement of Georgia’s first-ever large-scale pride event.

Disinformation English
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Leremy Colf

Nonresident Senior Fellow

GeoTech Center

Digital Policy Internet

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Dean Jackson

Nonresident Fellow

Digital Policy Elections

Fellow

Chinmayi Sharma

Nonresident Fellow

Cyber Statecraft Initiative

Cybersecurity Digital Policy

Fellow

Grace Abuhamad

Nonresident Fellow

Digital Forensic Research Lab

Digital Policy Internet

Millennium fellow

George Bachiashvili

CEO, Mission Gate

Millennium Leadership Program

Central Europe Digital Policy

Fellow

Joseph T. Bonivel Jr.

Nonresident Senior Fellow

GeoTech Center

Cybersecurity Defense Technologies
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