Funding & Team

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute is an independent, non-partisan think tank that produces expert and timely advice for Australian and global leaders. It is a leading Indo-Pacific think-tank on defence, national security and technology issues. ASPI generates new ideas for policy makers, allowing them to make better-informed decisions. Find out more about our work here.

The Critical Technology Tracker was created by ASPI’s Cyber, Technology, and Security centre. The centre is a leading voice in global debates on cyber, emerging and critical technologies, foreign interference and issues related to information operations and disinformation. The centre’s work is agenda setting and focuses on the impact these issues have on broader strategic policy. The centre informs public debate globally and supports policy development in the Indo-Pacific region by producing original, empirical, data-driven research.

ASPI was established by the Australian Government in 2001 and remains partially funded by the Department of Defence. It receives funding from governments, businesses and civil society groups. Details of our funding sources are available here.

Funding for this project (from 2022-2024) has come from the US Department of State, the Special Competitive Studies Project and the Australian Government. A previous small project on critical technologies funded by Australia’s Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet in 2021 helped to inform the direction and creation of this much larger and more in-depth program of work.

Potential future phases of this work are being planned. Governments and organisations interested in supporting this ongoing program of work, including further expansions and the addition of technologies, can reach out via criticaltech@aspi.org.au.

 

Critical Technology Tracker team

The key authors of this project are Dr Jennifer Wong-Leung, Stephan Robin, Danielle Cave.

We’d like to acknowledge our former colleague Dr Jamie Gaida who made major and valuable contributions to this work during his time at ASPI. Thank you to all ASPI colleagues, and the many external reviewers, who have provided feedback on this work.

Thank you also to the many governments, multilateral groups, research institutes and other organisations who have engaged and feed into this work over the years. Thank you also to Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Group for sharing material in 2022 that helped inform the development and build of our own database search strategies.

 

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