Seven G-20 Commitments to Promote Innovation and the Digital Economy

Last week’s G20 Summit in Hangzhou, China showed that US leadership has driven a growing global consensus on a number of issues central to the growth of the digital economy and the high paying jobs of the future. Due in no small part to U.S. leadership, this year the G-20 endorsed policies long advocated by the United States that will help drive innovation and entrepreneurship and make the digital economy an engine for global opportunity.

1. Free Flow of Data.
2. Multistakeholder Internet Governance.
3. Net Neutrality.
4. Broadband Opportunity.
5. Intellectual Property.
6. Strengthening Cybersecurity.
7. Transparency and Good Governance.

[Penny Prtizkers is the US Secretary of Commerce. Jeffrey Zients is the Director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy]