German Marshall Fund of the United States

⚠️ Civil society organizations in Central and Eastern Europe face significant challenges, including threats from state actors, and negative narratives. Dimitar Keranov presents valuable lessons from these countries to be learned for building a stronger civil society ecosystem across borders. Read Below ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4gGPwkk

🇺🇸 🇪🇺 🇨🇳 "A common transatlantic language on China has emerged, with the EU and the United States embracing the concept of de-risking." 📧 Read more in the latest edition of Watching China in Europe by Noah Barkin: https://bit.ly/4iXUPNN

🤝 This week: join an in-person conversation with Erin E. Mckee, Assistant Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Europe and Eurasia, at GMF's Washington headquarters, moderated by GMF Senior Fellow Josh Rudolph. The conversation will provide insight into USAID’s role leading national security policy in the Europe and Eurasia region, including efforts to support Ukraine’s economic, societal and political resiliency over the past three years in response to Russian aggression 🎟️ RSVP now: https://bit.ly/40kRl0l

🇸🇾 "Transatlantic allies have a historic opportunity to constructively shape Syria’s future by engaging with emerging leadership." Read more in Marcos Sebares Jiménez-Blanco's latest: https://bit.ly/4iLRIby

As we close the door on 2024, I'm filled with inspiration and gratitude reflecting back on a truly incredible year for Tech at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. We brought people together, reached new audiences, produced high-impact tools and analyses, and pushed on the boundaries of what constitutes "think tank work" with innovative programming -- from a hackathon to implementing content authenticity technology. Some highlights 🎉 : 🤝 As Astrid Ziebarth says, it's people first. We united tech @ GMF under one roof #GMFTechnology and built an all-star, truly #transatlantech team (now 9-strong), bringing on Sharinee L. Jagtiani (PhD) and Astrid in Berlin, Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar in Brussels, and Dr. Pamela Park in Silicon Valley to complement our existing presence in DC and Paris. 🗺️ 📣With two Congressional testimonies 🏛️, seven events held, and multiple speaking engagements from the #G7 in Rome to the music and tech nerds at South by Southwest #SXSW, we reached both new and traditional high-impact audiences. Our analysis was featured in over 50 media hits including the The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, Bloomberg, Deutsche Welle and more. 📈 GMF Tech also went beyond the standard commentaries, producing data-driven investigations and tools 🔎 at the intersection of tech, geopolitics and democracy: Our #SpittingImages Electoral Deepfakes Tracker catalogues how #AI is affecting politics, and our reports on the evolving use of #TikTok as a political platform tracked the growing potential for PRC influence, as US candidates of all stripes rushed to the app over the summer. 🎵 In partnership with CBC and #ObturadorMX, we conducted the first-ever demonstration of content authenticity technology in major media coverage of an election. 📸 👩🏼💻 We innovated new formats of getting technologists, policymakers, and civil society together: Our #TransatlanticTechExchange in March brought 12 tech-minded Members of the European Parliament to DC, Sacramento, and Austin to learn and exchange on the US and EU innovation ecosystems. And in November, we hosted GMF's first-ever #Hackathon in Mexico City where interdisciplinary teams of data scientists, engineers, civil society actors, and academics developed #AI prototypes 💡 to advance democratic values. #democracyaffirmingtech I'm deeply thankful for the enthusiasm and support of an incredible team and the people and partnerships throughout GMF and beyond who have contributed to, engaged with, and advanced our work this last year. Caitlin Goldenberg Dylan Welch Adrienne Goldstein Sharinee L. Jagtiani (PhD) Astrid Ziebarth Julia Tréhu Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar Dr. Pamela Park Penny Naas Steven Bosacker Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer, PhD Heather A. Conley Rachael Dean Wilson David Salvo Christopher M. Schroeder Annie Maxwell Tara Hariharan Rachel Mlinarchik Vlad Galushko Eric Pelofsky Carla Hustedt thank you! Happy new year and can't wait to hit the ground running in 2025! 🥂

Thanks to Bloomberg' s Caroline Hyde 📺 & Paul Sweeney 📻for having me on to discuss the thorny questions around China tech policy and geopolitics for 2025. We covered lots of ground, but a few key points: 🎶 How Trump handles the #TikTok law will be a litmus test of his Admin's stance on China + tech. Prospective appointments like Marco Rubio and Jacob Helberg to the State department signal a hawkish approach in line with the DC consensus. But many of the tech CEOs courting Trump at Mar-a-Lago have strong business ties in the PRC. 👨💻 DC is already feeling the effects of the rise of the supranational tech billionaire in Elon Musk as 'first buddy' -- will this newfound political influence muddy the waters of the bipartisan political consensus on China that has formed over the last 5 years? 🤖 2025 is poised to see major advances in the #AI 'model race' as well as the applications of LLMs. The US/UK joint pre-deployment test of OpenAI's o1 -- which assessed performance across cybersecurity, biotechnology, and AI+software development -- is a prototype for how governments can begin look at accuracy when it comes to deploying frontier models. Will Trump 2.0 invest in these efforts or see them carried forward by US allies? 📺 Watch the full clip here: https://lnkd.in/gan-eARn German Marshall Fund of the United States #Chinatech #AI #TikTok

🇺🇸 "Countering foreign interference requires that US government agencies prioritize the issue and have structures in place to coordinate action against multi-faceted threats," argues GMF's David Salvo, in his piece highlighting the necessity of the US continuing to combat foreign interference operations. https://bit.ly/49v23Vj

🇪🇺 🇮🇳 Overcoming... inertia and fundamentally changing the EU’s partnership with India demands structural change in the relationship, writes GMF's Garima Mohan, PhD. 🔗 Read her analysis of key steps Brussels can take: https://bit.ly/3ZokAiy

🌍 A new category of pivotal powers in the international order is emerging, one that is investing in AI. 🔝 GMF's Sharinee L. Jagtiani (PhD) and Kristina Kausch explore how AI is likely to influence the geopolitical balance of power in a newly global order. Read Now ⤵️ https://bit.ly/4fBEht0

🌊 Another Baltic sea cable damage incident focuses transatlantic attention on the vulnerability of critical undersea infrastructure. A GMF report from earlier last year explores how that allies can enhance resilience & protect Arctic CUI. Read now: https://bit.ly/3TUZmpe