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In 2014, the Hewlett-Packard Foundation launched the Cyber Initiative, a five-year, $160 million effort to create a more "robust and capable" field of cyber policy.
Its 10-year run ended in 2023, and the foundation just announced it's giving another $100 million to the effort, bringing the total to $180 million, Wired reports.
"We pursued that goal via three distinct substrategies: building a set of core institutions with sufficient depth of expertise to deliver solutions to pressing cyber policy problems; creating a talent that produces experts with the necessary mix of technical and nontechnical skills and knowledge to staff these and other institutions, including government and industry; and supporting the development of organizations and experts capable of translating and disseminating the work of these institutions in forms that can be used by decision-makers and understood by the public," the initiative's director says in a press release.
"We are confident saying that Hewlett-Packard's Cyber Initiative was indispensable in building this cyber policy field," he continues.
"As the authors of the initiative's evaluation we commissioned of the initiative from the consulting firm Informing Change put it, the evidence'strongly supports most'' (and ours) that the Cyber Initiative played a unique and critical role in building the cyber
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