Global Internet Strategy

AEI’s Global Internet Strategy (GIS) project is developing a much-needed, comprehensive US internet strategy for advancing American ideals of personal freedom and human flourishing, protecting national security, promoting global trade and commerce, and achieving the digital revolution’s potential to improve human welfare on a global scale.

GLOBAL INTERNET STRATEGY (GIS) PROJECT

The United States must take the lead in promoting Internet freedom, advancing electronic commerce, and mitigating threats to cybersecurity and network integrity, not only to protect and advance American national interests, but also to promote the spread of individual liberty, economic empowerment, and human dignity. So far, the US government has failed to devise and implement an overall strategy for reaching these goals and addressing the policy challenges of the cyber realm.

The Global Internet Strategy (GIS) project is designed to bring together a wide range of experts, academics, public officials, technologists, and business leaders with expertise on the entire spectrum of global Internet policy issues; to analyze the successes and shortcomings of current policies and the challenges likely to emerge in the future; to invite and assess ideas for potential new strategies and policies; to assimilate and synthesize this body of information and ideas into a set of specific recommendations which together comprise a coherent, implemental strategy; and to make our recommendations and results available to current and future government leaders at the highest level.

The project is assessing policy challenges and developing specific proposals in four main issue areas: Internet freedom and civil liberties; economics, trade and international development; defense and national security; and network integrity and data security.

Our specific activities include events, research papers, and a final report – all accompanied by op-eds, blogs, speeches, media appearances, and one-on-one meetings with senior leaders to explain our work and promote our recommendations.

GIS LEADERSHIP

The GIS Project is led at AEI by Jeffrey Eisenach, Mike Daniels, and Shane Tews, and advised by a National Advisory Board comprised of leading academics, business leaders, and former public officials.

Jeffrey Eisenach is director of AEI’s Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy. He has served in senior positions at the Federal Trade Commission and the Office of Management and Budget. Eisenach is also a senior vice president at NERA Economic Consulting and an adjunct professor at the George Mason University School of Law.

Mike Daniels is a visiting fellow with AEI’s Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy and chairman of the GIS Project’s National Advisory Board. Daniels has served in senior advisory positions at the White House and the National Security Council and held positions with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the US National Commission for UNESCO. He currently serves as chairman of the Logistics Management Institute and Invincea Inc. and on several boards of directors, including Blackberry and CACI International.

Shane Tews is a visiting fellow with AEI’s Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy, where she works primarily on cybersecurity and Internet governance issues. She is also the president of Local Circle Strategies, a firm that advises high-tech organizations on Internet policies. Tews dealt with Internet security and domain issues as vice president of global policy for Verisign Inc. She is currently vice-chair of the board of directors of the Internet Education Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote a decentralized global Internet.

The National Advisory Board, chaired by Mike Daniels, is comprised of a distinguished group of leading academics, business leaders, and former public officials with experience in the wide array of constituencies affected by public policies on technology and the Internet. The role of Board members is to provide high level guidance and act as substantive advisors to the scholars working on the project and its final report.

Other AEI scholars who are members of the GIS project include Claude Barfield, James K. Glassman, and Jeremy A. Rabkin.

OUR WORK

The GIS project brings together a wide range of experts, academics, public officials, technologists, and business leaders to analyze the successes and shortcomings of current policies and assess ideas for potential new strategies. We will synthesize this body of information and ideas into a set of specific recommendations available to current and future government leaders at the highest level. Our specific activities include events, research papers, op-eds, blogs, and media appearances. The work of the GIS project will ultimately become the basis for a final report featuring a set of specific recommendations designed to advance a coherent US strategy.

Click here for the work from the Global Internet Strategy project.

GIS is a project of the Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy at the American Enterprise Institute. Learn more about the center here.

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CONTACT

For more information on the GIS project, contact Matt.Au@aei.org (202.862.5918).

For media inquiries, contact mediaservices@aei.org (202.862.5829).

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