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Tech and the future of UK foreign policy

Inquiry

This inquiry will focus on how the FCDO should be supporting the UK’s response to the opportunities and challenges presented by new and emerging technologies, including through new forms of diplomatic engagement and building globally shared understandings of standards, rules and norms for the responsible development and use of new technologies.

 

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Reports, special reports and government responses

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Third report - Encoding values: Putting tech at the heart of UK foreign policy
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Fourth Special Report - Encoding values: Putting tech at the heart of UK foreign policy - Government Response to the Committee’s Third
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Correspondence

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Correspondence from the Tech Envoy & HM Consul General to San Francisco on his experience as the UK’s first tech envoy to the US, dated 24/06/2022
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Letter from Google following their appearance before the Committee on 2 November 2021, dated 16/11/2021
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Correspondence from Microsoft following up on their appearance before the Committee on 29 June 2021, dated 20/07/2021
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Oral evidence transcripts

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1 March 2022
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Witnesses Amanda Milling, Professor Charlotte Watts (Chief Scientific Adviser and Director for Research and Evidence at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), and Chris Jones (Director, Delivery and Analysis at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
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11 January 2022
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Witnesses John Hughes (Global Head of Geopolitical and Economic Public Policy Strategy at Twitter), and Miranda Sissons (Global Director of Human Rights at Meta)
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11 January 2022
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Witnesses Sarah Spencer (Digital Specialist Consultant and Digital Threats Advisor at International Committee of the Red Cross), and Balthasar Staehelin (Director for Digital Transformation and Data at International Committee of the Red Cross)
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Written evidence

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Internews Europe (TFP0041)
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Reprieve (TFP0034)
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BBC World Service (TFP0035)
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Contact us

  • Email: fac@parliament.uk
  • Phone: 020 7219 4050 (general enquiries) | 020 7219 2996 or facmedia@parliament.uk (media enquiries)
  • Address: Foreign Affairs Committee | House of Commons | London | SW1A 0AA