Nathaniel Fick was appointed US ambassador at large of Cyberspace Policy and Digital Policy
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Nathaniel Fick was appointed US ambassador at large of Cyberspace Policy and Digital Policy. His new title tries to balance tensions between cyber and digital. Will he become a digital or cyber ambassador?
It’s also interesting to see that he frames the digital foreign policy approach around the traditional multilateral ‘trinity’ architecture of security, economy, and human rights.
SECURITY: He reiterates the traditional US approach to cybersecurity. A new element is that it brings cybercrime in proximity to cybersecurity which the USA has kept separate in international relations.
ECONOMY: The focus is on the free flow of data, open/transparent standards, multistakeholder internet governance, and Open RAN.
HUMAN RIGHTS: He calls for digital freedom and inclusion.
He also plans to develop institutional capacity in US diplomacy to follow digital/cyber topics.
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