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Aspen Digital focuses on five priorities. Our initiatives promote productive exchange across a range of perspectives, disciplines, and sectors.

We envision a future where technology and information empower communities and strengthen democracy. Aspen Digital’s mission is to connect and spark policy action among those crucial to making our interconnected world accessible, safe, and inclusive — both online and off.

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Wait, Are We Winning?!: Measuring Software Security

For decades, attackers in cyberspace have had more advantages than defenders. Until this balance flips and we are able to measure what winning looks like, cyber risk to software security will continue to escalate. This piece describes a framework of software security metrics to determine and assess how cyber defenders are winning, and what success…

Jason Healey

Chris Wysopal

March 19, 2026

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The Future of Public Media

Public media faces a future of rapid structural changes, yet public sentiment remains more supportive than the political headlines suggest.

Aspen Digital

December 17, 2025

Old Tools, New Problems

Governments, not private mercenaries, must lead cyber retaliation. What worked in the high seas will not work in the digital battlefield.

Devin Lynch

December 15, 2025

Markle Foundation Launches AI Initiative Focused on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery

Press Release

New multi-sector, bipartisan effort to harness AI to save lives and protect communities through emergency preparedness and recovery.

December 10, 2025

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We bring clarity and insight to complex topics amid a noisy information environment. Read our recent reports.

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Defining Technologies of Our Time

This handbook offers an accessible, easy to use entry point for grappling with the question of how to define AI in a legal context.

February 8, 2026

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Feeding the Future

Most AI for food security projects focus on food production, but findings from Aspen Digital’s global survey of food practitioners reveal that key breakthroughs are needed in other aspects of food security.

January 19, 2026