CDOT Future: embracing British dynamism

Channelling emerging tech and innovation in Britain’s Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories (CDOT)

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Agile jurisdictions, distributed innovation

Change is happening at scale and speed. AI, digital assets, space tech, global warming, and geopolitics are changing our world. Only the innovators will survive.

Stretching from the Irish Sea to the Pacific Ocean, Britain’s network of Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories offers it the opportunity for rapid regulatory and technological experimentation. To succeed in the decades ahead, Britain must seize this advantage.

Focus Areas

  • People are standing outdoors on a grassy field with high-tech digital holograms related to Bitcoin, finance, and technology projected in front of them. The background features modern skyscrapers, wind turbines, and a clear sky with some clouds, suggesting a futuristic setting or event.

    Digital assets

    British CDOTs are among the world’s leading digital asset jurisdictions. We push to spead digital asset innovation in the British CDOTs and the UK.

  • People standing and sitting outside at a tech event with holographic displays and multiple Union Jack flags.

    Data intermediaries

    Data is a core resource for AI and tech businesses - yet we struggle to value, share, and transact in it. Using the regulatory flexibility of the CDOTs, we can experiment with new laws and business models.

  • City skyline with Big Ben clock tower and historic buildings in London, overlaid with blue digital data and analytics graphics.

    Ethical artificial intelligence

    The rise of AI is bringing with it world-altering change. We will use the CDOTs to create, test, and scale innovative laws on IP, AI assurance, and AI personality.

  • A futuristic cityscape with tall cylindrical skyscrapers decorated with British flags. Light trails and digital effects swirl around the buildings, with people walking on a reflective surface.

    Special data zones

    Accelerating the data economy through ‘special data zones ‘ - economic areas that incentivise the development of sovereign data infrastructure & compute capacity.

  • A spaceship in space with stars and nebulae in the background.

    Space sector innovation

    The exploration and exploitation of space resources offers huge opportunities. Through innovative laws, the CDOTs can attract space businesses to Britain.

  • A digital rendering of an Antarctic research station with geodesic domes, in a snowy landscape, with penguins walking on snow and Union Jack flags on poles, under a yellow-orange sunset sky.

    The South Atlantic

    Obtaining strategic advantage through exploring, exploiting, and growing the British Overseas Territories of the South Atlantic.