WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White Home will launch an initiative on Wednesday to award grants to innovators engaged on know-how to bolster democracy by growing instruments that improve privateness or circumvent censorship, a White Home official instructed Reuters.
Winners of the 2 greatest grants will get a complete of $3.75 million, the official mentioned.
The venture, a part of U.S. President Joe Biden’s Dec. 9-10 “Summit for Democracy,” goals to advertise democratic values “within the face of asymmetries in the best way democratic and autocratic actors leverage and derive worth from rising applied sciences,” the White Home will say in its announcement.
As a part of this system, the U.S. Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) and Nationwide Institute of Requirements and Expertise (NIST) will work with the UK to supply grants to advance and increase the adoption of know-how that promotes privateness and …
