U.S. Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy; Here’s What You Need to Know
On March 8, 2022, the American State Department launched a new cybersecurity bureau designed to improve digital diplomacy and online standards worldwide.
The Department of State’s new Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy (CDP) began operations on April 4. According to the announcement, the “CDP bureau will address the national security challenges, economic opportunities, and implications for U.S. values associated with cyberspace, digital technologies, and digital policy.”
The Bureau of Cyberspace coordinates U.S. cyberspace, and digital diplomacy works to promote reliable state behavior in cyberspace and advancement policies that guard the integrity and security of the Internet infrastructure, serve U.S. interests, boost competitiveness, and uphold democratic values.
The Bureau handles the national security challenges, economic opportunities, and values considerations given by cyberspace, digital technologies, and digital policy and promotes standards and norms that are fair, transparent, and support our values,” senior bureau official Jennifer Bachus.
The CDP bureau includes three policy units: Cyber Security, International Cyberspace, International Information, Communications Policy, and Digital Freedom.
Eventually, the Bureau will be directed by a Senate-confirmed Ambassador-at-Large. Jennifer Bachus, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, serves as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the CDP bureau.
PDAs Bachus will act as Senior Bureau Official until an Ambassador-at-Large is ensured. Michele Markoff acts as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Cyberspace Security, Stephen Anderson works as Assistant Secretary for International Information and Communications Policy, and Blake Peterson serves as Acting Digital Freedom Coordinator.
The Department values the collaboration and service of all who will work with the CDP bureau in the coming months and years to enhance it in order to achieve its mission.
Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
On February 8, 1996, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Grateful Dead lyricist, Electronic Frontier Foundation founder, and Internet Hall of Fame inductee John Perry Barlow wrote ‘A Declaration of Cyberspace.’
The declaration aimed to show that the Internet falls outside any country’s borders and that, as a result, no government laws should be involved in it. By 2004, John Perry Barlow, contemplating the optimism of his work, noted, “We all get older and smarter.” The modern orator revisited this historical paper in New York City on July 30, 2013.
Summary
American State Department launched a new Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy (CDP) will address the national security challenges, economic opportunities, and implications for U.S. values associated with cyberspace, digital technologies, and digital policy.
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