The Not-So-International System? Geo-Politics of Tech and COVID-19 #AspenTech20
Channel: Aspen Institute Germany
Date: 2020-06-18

On June 18, 2020, Aspen Germany hosted a virtual conversation on “The Not-So-International System? Geo-Politics of Tech and COVID-19” with
- Vivian Schiller, Executive Director, Aspen Digital;
- Aleksandar Stojanovic, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder, AVA;
- Jennifer Zhu Scott, Founding Principal, Radian Partners;
- Hinrich Thölken, Special Envoy for Digitalization and Digital Transformation, Federal Foreign Office of Germany.


In this final event of our series, we zoomed out to take a big picture look at how the Covid-19 pandemic has played out and impacted global tech-dynamics, including its implications for international cooperation, cyber-security, global governance, and how to arrive at international norms for the use of data and technology in the fight against Covid-19. How is the interoperability of technology and data being put forward? What role are multi-stakeholder approaches playing in overcoming the current crisis? And do international actors foster colaboration in areas which have been highly competitive before the Covid-19 outbreak such as Artificial Intelligence and edge computing?