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Mike Rogers and the Bipartisan Policy Center want to capture the spirit of 1997 as they develop a partnership to help industry and government short-circuit today's most difficult feuds in cybersecurity and the digital economy. The intent is to echo 1997's Framework for Global Electronic Commerce, a government-private sector union from the Internet's dial-up era. That alliance aimed to bolster online business while demonstrating a commitment from industry and the feds to tackle the technology's emerging problems. The new partnership, first shared with POLITICO, has been quietly working for four months to lay the groundwork. Its inaugural public event will be Wednesday, when Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker will be among the speakers at the center. On Tuesday, the initiative is bringing in 40 leaders from industry for discussions, followed by a congressional dinner. The goal is to eventually develop a new Framework for the Global Digital Economy by next year, the 10th anniversary of the earlier effort. At the outset, the initiative will address subjects such as cyber insurance, legal liability, a standard for attributing attacks and a unification of conflicting regulations. It won't be the first time someone has tried to get government and industry, particularly the tech sector, on the same page amid today's bruising court battles over encryption and surveillance. But Rogers said he thinks their approach is different from others. "The only thing we ask of everybody that comes in is to leave their advocacy position, your pre-established advocacy position, you've got to leave outside," Rogers said. He figures his own background serving as House Intelligence chairman, when he advanced an agenda that tech companies didn't always like, gives him credibility on that, since he is demonstrating that he is coming in open-minded during those meetings. Additionally, as a private citizen he has a broader agenda and a different perspective. But the so-called Global ...
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