Welcome to the Working Group 4 - ICT security and competitiveness!

Thank you for your interest in this Community, which is part of the larger EU-US Trade and Technology Council Community on Futurium. This community was a virtual space for businesses, public authorities, innovators, researchers, civil society, and policymakers to shape the EU and US discussions in the Trade and Technology Council during the period 2021-2024.

The Trade and Technology Council was set up at the June 2021 EU-US summit and served as a forum for the European Union and the United States to coordinate approaches to key global trade, economic, and technology issues and to deepen transatlantic trade and economic relations based on shared democratic values between 2021-2024. 

The working group was tasked to continue to work towards ensuring security, diversity, interoperability and resilience across the ICT supply chain, including sensitive and critical areas such as 5G, undersea cables, data centres, and cloud infrastructure. The working group was tasked to explore concrete cooperation on development finance for secure and resilient digital connectivity in third countries. The working group was also tasked to seek to reinforce cooperation on research and innovation for beyond 5G and 6G systems. The US and EU governments, in close cooperation with relevant stakeholders, worked develop a common vision and roadmap for preparing the next generation of communication technologies towards 6G. The group was further tasked to discuss data security.

As this cooperation format is no longer active, this Community will be closed as of 30 September 2026. 

The EU-US Trade and Technology Community team