Defending Digital Democracy

The Intelligence Project will host a webinar with the Honorable Mike Rogers, Belfer Center Senior Fellow and Former Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and David E. Sanger, Belfer Center Senior Fellow, adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School and national security correspondent and senior writer at The New York Times, on Tuesday May 13th from 12:45-2:00pm via zoom. 

This session will be recorded and on the record. Priority registration will be given to Harvard students, staff, faculty, fellows, and affiliates. Please register below for access to the zoom link. 

Join the Cyber Project and the Defending Digital Democracy Project (D3P) as we convene tech, government, health, and policy experts in an important discussion on the federal government's efforts to work with tech companies and academia in using citizen data to track and mitigate the spread of COVID-19. 

Our main question: How do we get this right--to save lives and preserve privacy and security?

We will use this discussion to generate policy recommendations for the relevant task force working on this issue within the federal government. 

The Working Group will feature experts from Harvard Kennedy School, the Belfer Center, and MIT*

The Honorable Sue Gordon                    Eric Rosenbach

Juliette Kayyem                                         Dr. Margaret Bourdeaux

Jim Waldo                                                   Bruce Schneier

Alex Stamos                                                Kathy Pham

Robby Mook                                               Dr. Marc Zissman

Andrew McLaughlin, J.D.                       Jonathan Zittrain

*Working group still in formation.  Please see full titles of Working Group Members in tab below

This event is limited to state and local election officials only. 

Since our inception in 2017, the Belfer Center’s Defending Digital Democracy Project (D3P) has been committed to aiding election officials in protecting the core of American democracy--the election process. After the past three years of training, outreach, and research, we remain humbled by the complexity and enormity of the challenges you and your teams face. Just as you continue your work to serve the American people, we continue our work to serve you. With that, D3P would like to invite you to a new training exercise: Battlestaff Bootcamp. 

Please join the Belfer Center's Defending Digital Democracy Project for a discussion with Derek Mitchell, President of the National Democratic Institute and former U.S. Ambassador to Burma. 

Join the MPP Spring Policy Exercise Class (API500MD) and the Defending Digital Democracy Project (D3P) for a seminar with Alex Stamos, Adjunct Professor at Stanford’s Freeman-Spogli Institute, a William J. Perry Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution, and a Senior Advisor to D3P. Alex will discuss “Finding, Understanding and Preventing Election Interference on Social Media." 

The Intelligence Project and Cybersecurity Project will host a seminar with Constance Taube, Deputy Director, National Counterintelligence and Security Center. Harvard ID required. 

Join the Defending Digital Democracy Project (D3P) for a seminar on recent student research. Bo Julie Crowley (MPP1), Casey Corcoran (MPP1/JD), and Raina Davis (MPP1) will present their new report, "Disinformation Threat Watch: The Disinformation Landscape in East Asia and Implications for US Policy." 

Join the Belfer Center's Defending Digital Democracy Project and Professor Zoe Marks, Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, for a lunch with Nanjala Nyabola on "Digital Democracy in Africa." 

Join the Defending Digital Democracy Project (D3P) for a happy hour to learn about the Project's activities for the upcoming academic year and how to get involved.