Why “Tech Freedom” Must Reign in Wireless Communications -There are two ways to think about the concept of “tech freedom.” One is to focus on intent and capability. On this view, free tech is tha... -
Bonnie Glick is the Director of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University. As Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development in 2019-20, Glick served as the Deputy for all U.S. policies and as the Chief Operating Officer of the agency.One is to focus on intent and capability. On this view, free tech is that which isn’t designed and cannot easily be used to coerce, censor, or oppress.
In practice, these ideas amount to something similar, because tech with trusted provenance tends to be more benign in its application. In the global contest between free and unfree tech, the U.S. and its allies have until now been too slow and reactive. They haven’t taken a sufficiently long-term view of transformational “deep technologies” such as 5G wireless communications. These technologies offer enormous potential benefits, but they also require intensive upfront research and offer at best a distant pay-off. Investment has been tentative. Moreover, until now, political will to take the initiative has been limited.
In telecommunications, for example, operators have increasing access to high-quality, affordable, and politically uncompromised equipment. For many years, there were no viable U.S. or allied suppliers of telecommunications network infrastructure equipment, especially in emerging markets. Operators trying to build 4G or 5G networks in much of Africa relied on Chinese suppliers, with the attendant risks to personal and national security.
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