Addressing Policy Challenges of Disruptive Technologies

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Table 1. Common themes in addressing the policy challenges of disruptive technologies.

Article	Role of Government	Need for Comprehensive Policies	Adaptive and Proactive Approach	Interdisciplinary Research	Data Management and Privacy
Cyberspace and the protection of critical national infrastructure. (Weiss and Biermann, This Issue)	Emphasizes the government’s role in protecting CNI from cyber threats.	Calls for comprehensive policies that address the complexity of cyberspace and the potential threats to CNI.	Highlights the complexities of cyberspace and advocates for a proactive approach to protecting CNI with policies that can adapt to the rapidly changing landscape of cyberspace.	The paper’s approach implies a need for interdisciplinary research that combines a technical understanding of cyberspace with policy and regulatory expertise.	Indirectly touches on this theme, as protecting CNI in cyberspace would involve managing and securing data.
Competing perspectives on the Big Data revolution (Wong and Hinnant, This Issue)	Discusses the government’s role in regulating the use of Big Data and ensuring that it is used responsibly and ethically.	Calls for comprehensive policies that address the various aspects of the Big Data applications, including data privacy and management, and data-driven decision making.	Highlights the complexity of Big Data applications and suggests that governments must proactively address the challenges and opportunities of Big Data.	Calls for further research to explore the potential applications and implications of the Big Data through interdisciplinary research.	Discusses the challenges of managing and protecting the vast amounts of data collected, stored, and generated by Big Data technologies.
An integrated complex adaptive governmental policy response to cyber threats (Porter and Tan, This Issue)	Emphasizes the government’s role in responding to cyber threats.	Argues for comprehensive policies that can address the complexity of cyber threats and the interconnectedness of the digital ecosystem.	Discusses the complexity of the digital ecosystem and proposes an adaptive policy response to cyber threats, suggesting that policies must be flexible and able to respond rapidly.	Calls for an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and addressing cyber threats.	The theme of data management and privacy is inherent in discussing cyber threats and the need for secure digital infrastructure.
Navigating the governance challenges of disruptive technologies: (Pande and Taeihagh, This Issue)	Underscores the role of government in regulating disruptive technologies such as AS and ensuring the balance between innovation and protecting the citizens from risks.	Discusses the need for comprehensive policies to address the operational, legal, economic, social, and ethical challenges that AS pose.	Suggests that governments must be proactive in addressing the challenges of disruptive technologies (AS in particular) and flexible in adapting to their rapid evolution.	Calls for further research to explore the governance challenges of AS and their regulation.	The data management and privacy theme are relevant in the context of AS, which involve collecting and using large amounts of sensor data.