UK-US Atlantic Declaration bolsters tech and data collaboration | Computer Weekly
Summary
US president Joe Biden and UK prime minister Rishi Sunak have signed an Atlantic Declaration for a Twenty-First Century US-UK Economic Partnership, setting out a series of partnerships, which include technology, data privacy and telecommunications. The declaration aims to develop and deliver a shared work plan on “critical and emerging technologies”, which is expected to be updated and taken forward within the next 12 months. The declaration states: “We intend to work together to crowd in private capital to ensure companies in these areas have the ability to emerge and scale. We will use this newly formed council to bring leading investors from both sides of the Atlantic together with national security experts to analyse where funding gaps currently exist and unlock new private investment in critical and emerging technologies.” As part of a move to improve talent flow between the two countries, the government said the UK would expand Marshall and Fulbright scholarships focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects. We also intend to coordinate to further promote trust in the digital economy, including through support for the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) Forum and the OECD’s Declaration on Government Access to Personal Data Held by Private Sector Entities, and to build shared understandings on data security risks,” the government said.