Over time, the Quad has grown in profile and widened its scope to include critical and emerging technologies, COVID-19 vaccines, and humanitarian assistance. But to have a lasting effect, the group must accelerate cooperation on security, write Dhruva Jaishankar and Tanvi Madan ahead of this week’s Quad summit.
Much of the discussion around digital infrastructure has focused on broadband availability, and the role of free and open-source software (FOSS) has gone underappreciated. Frank Nagle argues that there is a clear need for government investment and regulation of this infrastructure to ensure the future health, security, and growth of the FOSS ecosystem that has become indispensable to the modern economy.
More than 20,000 Africans were killed in violent conflicts in 2020—an almost tenfold increase from a decade ago. Hippolyte Fofack explains why Africa must reduce foreign involvement on the continent in order to advance its security and development objectives.
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