Warning from the UK: how not to create digital policy
The current political mess engulfing the country is a metaphor for how the UK failed to articulate a coherent, long-term digital policy strategy
IT'S MONDAY, AND THIS IS DIGITAL POLITICS. I'm Mark Scott, and you find me filing this dispatch via dodgy wifi on the way to Brussels. If you're in town, I'll be at the CPDP conference most of the week. Let's grab coffee.
— The United Kingdom is again engulfed in political infighting. The country's tech ambitions are equally on life support.
— In the wake of the recent China-United States summit, Middle Power countries are using their unique digital industrial policy skills to navigate the new geopolitical reality.
— The world's leading artificial intelligence firms are massively subsiziding their models to win market share. That is unsustainable.
Let's get started: