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The EU’s Cyber Crisis Management Blueprint unites member states to respond to large-scale cyber attacks, strengthens resilience, and sets a model for regional cybersecurity.
Learn more in our latest commentary👇
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Learn more in our latest commentary👇
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October 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The EU’s Cyber Crisis Management Blueprint unites member states to respond to large-scale cyber attacks, strengthens resilience, and sets a model for regional cybersecurity.
Learn more in our latest commentary👇
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Learn more in our latest commentary👇
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🚨 THIS THURSDAY, Oct. 16 @ 10 AM EDT:
U.S. consumers and innovators face risks from counterfeit products on Chinese e-commerce platforms.
Join ITIF’s webinar to explore policy solutions.
💻 Register:
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U.S. consumers and innovators face risks from counterfeit products on Chinese e-commerce platforms.
Join ITIF’s webinar to explore policy solutions.
💻 Register:
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October 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
🚨 THIS THURSDAY, Oct. 16 @ 10 AM EDT:
U.S. consumers and innovators face risks from counterfeit products on Chinese e-commerce platforms.
Join ITIF’s webinar to explore policy solutions.
💻 Register:
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U.S. consumers and innovators face risks from counterfeit products on Chinese e-commerce platforms.
Join ITIF’s webinar to explore policy solutions.
💻 Register:
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Today’s the day! The 2025 AR/VR Policy Conference kicks off at 10:00 AM ET.
Join us at the AT&T Forum in Washington, DC, with on-site registration available — or stream online from anywhere.
🎟️ Register & tune in → arvrpolicy.org
Join us at the AT&T Forum in Washington, DC, with on-site registration available — or stream online from anywhere.
🎟️ Register & tune in → arvrpolicy.org
September 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Today’s the day! The 2025 AR/VR Policy Conference kicks off at 10:00 AM ET.
Join us at the AT&T Forum in Washington, DC, with on-site registration available — or stream online from anywhere.
🎟️ Register & tune in → arvrpolicy.org
Join us at the AT&T Forum in Washington, DC, with on-site registration available — or stream online from anywhere.
🎟️ Register & tune in → arvrpolicy.org
TOMORROW, Tuesday, Sept. 9 at 12 PM EDT:
Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks will deliver keynote remarks at the 2025 AR/VR Policy Conference.
🎤 Don’t miss this discussion on immersive tech & policy.
🔗 Register free: arvrpolicy.org
Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks will deliver keynote remarks at the 2025 AR/VR Policy Conference.
🎤 Don’t miss this discussion on immersive tech & policy.
🔗 Register free: arvrpolicy.org
September 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
TOMORROW, Tuesday, Sept. 9 at 12 PM EDT:
Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks will deliver keynote remarks at the 2025 AR/VR Policy Conference.
🎤 Don’t miss this discussion on immersive tech & policy.
🔗 Register free: arvrpolicy.org
Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks will deliver keynote remarks at the 2025 AR/VR Policy Conference.
🎤 Don’t miss this discussion on immersive tech & policy.
🔗 Register free: arvrpolicy.org
🚨 Next Tuesday, Sept. 9th:
Congresswoman Kat Cammack will deliver keynote remarks at the 2025 AR/VR Policy Conference, sharing insights on public policy & the future of immersive tech.
See the full agenda + register for free ⤵️
arvrpolicy.org
Congresswoman Kat Cammack will deliver keynote remarks at the 2025 AR/VR Policy Conference, sharing insights on public policy & the future of immersive tech.
See the full agenda + register for free ⤵️
arvrpolicy.org
September 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
🚨 Next Tuesday, Sept. 9th:
Congresswoman Kat Cammack will deliver keynote remarks at the 2025 AR/VR Policy Conference, sharing insights on public policy & the future of immersive tech.
See the full agenda + register for free ⤵️
arvrpolicy.org
Congresswoman Kat Cammack will deliver keynote remarks at the 2025 AR/VR Policy Conference, sharing insights on public policy & the future of immersive tech.
See the full agenda + register for free ⤵️
arvrpolicy.org
The UK’s Online Safety Act is already creating unintended consequences:
VPN usage surged, online forums shut down, and platforms are over-removing lawful content.
Daniel Castro & Alex Ambrose explain why U.S. policymakers should take note before following the same path. ⤵️
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VPN usage surged, online forums shut down, and platforms are over-removing lawful content.
Daniel Castro & Alex Ambrose explain why U.S. policymakers should take note before following the same path. ⤵️
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September 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The UK’s Online Safety Act is already creating unintended consequences:
VPN usage surged, online forums shut down, and platforms are over-removing lawful content.
Daniel Castro & Alex Ambrose explain why U.S. policymakers should take note before following the same path. ⤵️
vist.ly/45iqk
VPN usage surged, online forums shut down, and platforms are over-removing lawful content.
Daniel Castro & Alex Ambrose explain why U.S. policymakers should take note before following the same path. ⤵️
vist.ly/45iqk
How can the U.S. lead the future of immersive tech? 🌐
Experts from Google, Beacon Global Strategies, & Congress will explore U.S. & global policies shaping XR innovation, trade, & competitiveness at this years 2025 AR/VR Policy Conference.
Register for free 👇
arvrpolicy.org
Experts from Google, Beacon Global Strategies, & Congress will explore U.S. & global policies shaping XR innovation, trade, & competitiveness at this years 2025 AR/VR Policy Conference.
Register for free 👇
arvrpolicy.org
August 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
How can the U.S. lead the future of immersive tech? 🌐
Experts from Google, Beacon Global Strategies, & Congress will explore U.S. & global policies shaping XR innovation, trade, & competitiveness at this years 2025 AR/VR Policy Conference.
Register for free 👇
arvrpolicy.org
Experts from Google, Beacon Global Strategies, & Congress will explore U.S. & global policies shaping XR innovation, trade, & competitiveness at this years 2025 AR/VR Policy Conference.
Register for free 👇
arvrpolicy.org
2025 AR/VR Policy Conference Panel Spotlight:
🌏 U.S. & Global Perspectives on Nurturing the Immersive Tech Ecosystem
How do trade, standards, & industrial policy shape XR leadership worldwide?
Find out Sept 9 at #ARVRPolicy2025⤵️
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🌏 U.S. & Global Perspectives on Nurturing the Immersive Tech Ecosystem
How do trade, standards, & industrial policy shape XR leadership worldwide?
Find out Sept 9 at #ARVRPolicy2025⤵️
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July 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
2025 AR/VR Policy Conference Panel Spotlight:
🌏 U.S. & Global Perspectives on Nurturing the Immersive Tech Ecosystem
How do trade, standards, & industrial policy shape XR leadership worldwide?
Find out Sept 9 at #ARVRPolicy2025⤵️
vist.ly/3zttw
🌏 U.S. & Global Perspectives on Nurturing the Immersive Tech Ecosystem
How do trade, standards, & industrial policy shape XR leadership worldwide?
Find out Sept 9 at #ARVRPolicy2025⤵️
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Just over a month until the leading conference on XR policy and innovation returns to DC!
Join us for the 5th Annual AR/VR Policy Conference—where innovation meets policy.
📅 Tuesday, Sept 9 | 📍Washington, DC
Details + registration 👇
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Join us for the 5th Annual AR/VR Policy Conference—where innovation meets policy.
📅 Tuesday, Sept 9 | 📍Washington, DC
Details + registration 👇
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July 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Just over a month until the leading conference on XR policy and innovation returns to DC!
Join us for the 5th Annual AR/VR Policy Conference—where innovation meets policy.
📅 Tuesday, Sept 9 | 📍Washington, DC
Details + registration 👇
vist.ly/3zjwi
Join us for the 5th Annual AR/VR Policy Conference—where innovation meets policy.
📅 Tuesday, Sept 9 | 📍Washington, DC
Details + registration 👇
vist.ly/3zjwi
With the Supreme Court’s ruling on Texas’ age verification law, more states will likely follow.
Without federal action, this will create a confusing patchwork of rules. Congress must step in now to ensure a clear, balanced approach nationwide.
Our full statement ⤵️
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Without federal action, this will create a confusing patchwork of rules. Congress must step in now to ensure a clear, balanced approach nationwide.
Our full statement ⤵️
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June 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
With the Supreme Court’s ruling on Texas’ age verification law, more states will likely follow.
Without federal action, this will create a confusing patchwork of rules. Congress must step in now to ensure a clear, balanced approach nationwide.
Our full statement ⤵️
vist.ly/3n7y6zd
Without federal action, this will create a confusing patchwork of rules. Congress must step in now to ensure a clear, balanced approach nationwide.
Our full statement ⤵️
vist.ly/3n7y6zd
Now that Olivia Trusty’s Senate confirmation gives the FCC a quorum, the Commission should focus on spectrum, broadband adoption, and the space economy—not partisan distractions. vist.ly/3n75zmc
June 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Now that Olivia Trusty’s Senate confirmation gives the FCC a quorum, the Commission should focus on spectrum, broadband adoption, and the space economy—not partisan distractions. vist.ly/3n75zmc
Lots of factors put downward pressure on American workers’ wages and household incomes. Which ones do you think are most important for policymakers to address? Please let us know your thoughts by answering this 90-second survey: vist.ly/3n62cnu
June 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Lots of factors put downward pressure on American workers’ wages and household incomes. Which ones do you think are most important for policymakers to address? Please let us know your thoughts by answering this 90-second survey: vist.ly/3n62cnu
Global counterfeiting exceeds $467B, with China as the chief source – a problem overlooked by OECD guidelines.
Eli Clemens explains that voluntary norms won't help without holding China accountable.
Read the op-ed ⤵️
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Eli Clemens explains that voluntary norms won't help without holding China accountable.
Read the op-ed ⤵️
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June 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Global counterfeiting exceeds $467B, with China as the chief source – a problem overlooked by OECD guidelines.
Eli Clemens explains that voluntary norms won't help without holding China accountable.
Read the op-ed ⤵️
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Eli Clemens explains that voluntary norms won't help without holding China accountable.
Read the op-ed ⤵️
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AR/VR is reshaping health care—but thoughtful policy is key to scaling impact.
Policymakers should streamline approvals, expand coverage, fund R&D, and more.
See the full list of recommendations in our latest report. ⬇️
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Policymakers should streamline approvals, expand coverage, fund R&D, and more.
See the full list of recommendations in our latest report. ⬇️
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June 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
AR/VR is reshaping health care—but thoughtful policy is key to scaling impact.
Policymakers should streamline approvals, expand coverage, fund R&D, and more.
See the full list of recommendations in our latest report. ⬇️
vist.ly/3n6miv3
Policymakers should streamline approvals, expand coverage, fund R&D, and more.
See the full list of recommendations in our latest report. ⬇️
vist.ly/3n6miv3
AR/VR is making real gains in U.S. #healthcare.
Policy Analyst Alex Ambrose explains how #immersivetech can ease burnout, expand access, & improve outcomes.
Smart policy can help scale it.
Read the full report on #ARVR's potential in health care.⤵️
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Policy Analyst Alex Ambrose explains how #immersivetech can ease burnout, expand access, & improve outcomes.
Smart policy can help scale it.
Read the full report on #ARVR's potential in health care.⤵️
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June 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
AR/VR is making real gains in U.S. #healthcare.
Policy Analyst Alex Ambrose explains how #immersivetech can ease burnout, expand access, & improve outcomes.
Smart policy can help scale it.
Read the full report on #ARVR's potential in health care.⤵️
vist.ly/3n6fwx2
Policy Analyst Alex Ambrose explains how #immersivetech can ease burnout, expand access, & improve outcomes.
Smart policy can help scale it.
Read the full report on #ARVR's potential in health care.⤵️
vist.ly/3n6fwx2
Join us tomorrow for a webinar to discuss the outlook for tech policy in the Trump administration with Rob Atkinson and David Moschella, authors of "Technology Fears and Scapegoats: 40 Myths About Privacy, Jobs, AI, and Today’s Innovation Economy." Register and watch here: itif.org/events/2024/...
December 16, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Join us tomorrow for a webinar to discuss the outlook for tech policy in the Trump administration with Rob Atkinson and David Moschella, authors of "Technology Fears and Scapegoats: 40 Myths About Privacy, Jobs, AI, and Today’s Innovation Economy." Register and watch here: itif.org/events/2024/...
Our model expands on an innovative ranking by @victordcha.bsky.social at @csis.org.
We factor 39 allies’ military budgets, trade balances, policy barriers to reciprocal trade, and toughness on China.
Here are our full composite results:
We factor 39 allies’ military budgets, trade balances, policy barriers to reciprocal trade, and toughness on China.
Here are our full composite results:
December 9, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Our model expands on an innovative ranking by @victordcha.bsky.social at @csis.org.
We factor 39 allies’ military budgets, trade balances, policy barriers to reciprocal trade, and toughness on China.
Here are our full composite results:
We factor 39 allies’ military budgets, trade balances, policy barriers to reciprocal trade, and toughness on China.
Here are our full composite results:
Here's a basic illustration of how government-owned networks end up wasting resources and creating unfair competition.
December 2, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Here's a basic illustration of how government-owned networks end up wasting resources and creating unfair competition.
With all the handwringing over the $42 billion Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, it’s important to remember private ISPs have invested the equivalent of 2 BEAD programs every year since it was enacted—and the US ranks near the top for broadband quality. itif.org/publications...
November 22, 2024 at 2:02 PM
With all the handwringing over the $42 billion Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, it’s important to remember private ISPs have invested the equivalent of 2 BEAD programs every year since it was enacted—and the US ranks near the top for broadband quality. itif.org/publications...
3/3 But Taiwan’s relative performance in the computers & electronics industry has peaked. Its 2020 LQ of 8.79 was down from 10.31 in 2013, reflecting strong competition from China—and now the #CHIPSAct is spurring reshoring opportunities for the US.
December 19, 2023 at 5:58 PM
3/3 But Taiwan’s relative performance in the computers & electronics industry has peaked. Its 2020 LQ of 8.79 was down from 10.31 in 2013, reflecting strong competition from China—and now the #CHIPSAct is spurring reshoring opportunities for the US.
2/ Taiwan is a superstar in computers & electronics (including #semiconductor #manufacturing). Its LQ in 2020 was 8.79, meaning its value-added output was nearly 9x the size-adjusted global avg. It also over-performed in 6 other strategic industries.
December 19, 2023 at 5:57 PM
2/ Taiwan is a superstar in computers & electronics (including #semiconductor #manufacturing). Its LQ in 2020 was 8.79, meaning its value-added output was nearly 9x the size-adjusted global avg. It also over-performed in 6 other strategic industries.
🥇 @itif.org's #HamiltonIndex shows how China dominates advanced industries in terms of global market share. But in relative terms, #Taiwan is the winner: It produces more than twice the global average value-added output as a share of its economy. 🧵
December 19, 2023 at 5:57 PM
🥇 @itif.org's #HamiltonIndex shows how China dominates advanced industries in terms of global market share. But in relative terms, #Taiwan is the winner: It produces more than twice the global average value-added output as a share of its economy. 🧵
6/ As of 2020, China was the world’s leading producer in 7/10 #HamiltonIndex industries. But that’s not to say other nations aren’t prospering. On a relative basis, Taiwan, Korea, and many others also over-perform.
December 13, 2023 at 8:39 PM
6/ As of 2020, China was the world’s leading producer in 7/10 #HamiltonIndex industries. But that’s not to say other nations aren’t prospering. On a relative basis, Taiwan, Korea, and many others also over-perform.
5/ It would be one thing if China’s performance in these industries was proportional to the size of its economy. But
ITIF uses “location quotients” (LQ) to show China punches 47% above its weight, whereas the US is 13% below average.
ITIF uses “location quotients” (LQ) to show China punches 47% above its weight, whereas the US is 13% below average.
December 13, 2023 at 8:36 PM
5/ It would be one thing if China’s performance in these industries was proportional to the size of its economy. But
ITIF uses “location quotients” (LQ) to show China punches 47% above its weight, whereas the US is 13% below average.
ITIF uses “location quotients” (LQ) to show China punches 47% above its weight, whereas the US is 13% below average.
4/ Non-OECD nations as a bloc have gained substantial global market share in #HamiltonIndex industries—but China has accounted for most of those gains. Other non-OECD nations have gained table comparative scraps.
December 13, 2023 at 8:34 PM
4/ Non-OECD nations as a bloc have gained substantial global market share in #HamiltonIndex industries—but China has accounted for most of those gains. Other non-OECD nations have gained table comparative scraps.