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Jim Kohlenberger: Mobilizing a Connected Technology Moonshot To Accelerate Climate Progress

At a time when surging temperatures led to the hottest year on record, leaders around the globe are searching for new and innovative ways to accelerate climate progress further. One of the most promising, but often overlooked tools, involves accelerating the revolutionary potential of emerging connected devices and the digital transformation they enable — creating new smarter, cleaner, and greener ways to tackle our climate challenges.

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James Lamond: In Promoting Cybersecurity, Everyone Has A Role

Technology today is changing at a near-breakneck pace. There are exciting new developments constantly taking place, with the potential to improve lives and tackle some of the biggest challenges we face. But bad actors are also innovating and thinking of new ways to exploit an increasingly connected world. In this new environment, everyone has a responsibility to help protect the security, safety and privacy of users.

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DMA: To Preserve Robust Mobile Security, Policymakers Should Heed the Important Security Lessons From the ActiveX Era of the Internet

We’ve previously explained the many challenges European regulators face in implementing the Digital Markets Act (DMA), especially as it relates to the security consequences of downloading mobile apps from untrusted sources. In this piece, we go deeper to examine lessons from a similar well-meaning approach and architecture from the 1990’s — a technology framework called ActiveX that enabled software applications to be downloaded from third-party sources to bridge the gap that separated web pages from Microsoft’s operating system.

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All In – Building an Inclusive Digital Ecosystem

As diversity, inclusion, and accessibility continue to be vital aspects of developing equitable new technologies, Trusted Future convened a panel discussion to explore these vital issues. The conversation focused on the need to include diverse voices when developing technology and technology policy, especially voices from communities that are often left out of the conversation – but who stand to gain the most. We focused on how new technological developments have created incredible opportunities for so many, but that users need to be able to trust the technologies, including trust that their sensitive data will be kept private and secure.

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Jim Kohlenberger: Pragmatic Steps to Deliver Digital Connectivity, Trust, and Opportunity For All

At a time when access to the digital world has become increasingly indispensable for almost every aspect of modern life, one of the greatest challenges facing leaders today is how we extend digital opportunity to everyone. Fortunately, there are pragmatic steps within reach that policymakers and business leaders can take to ensure connectivity for all, trust for all, and opportunity for all.

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Adam Golodner: G7 leaders put security stake in the ground—global competition policymakers and enforcers can too

Leaders of companies today need to pay attention to geopolitical, legislative, and regulatory issues. The advancement of technology is stressing governments out, and sometimes the reaction is counterproductive and the impact unintended. CEOs, CFOs, CTOs, and GCs must work together, understand the playing field, and weigh in to shape the policy path forward, as current policy decisions are shaping—sometimes not for the good—the technology and market ecosystem right now.

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