Parliamentarian-led
Members set ETIC's direction. A Leadership Council of senior parliamentarians, acting by unanimity, sets the agenda, priorities and strategic direction. No external party directs the caucus.
Emerging Technologies Interparliamentary Caucus
An international, cross-party caucus of legislators working towards transparency, scientific research and international collaboration on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena and emerging technologies.
ETIC brings together serving parliamentarians from different countries and political traditions. Members are briefed by credentialed scientists and specialists, compare developments across jurisdictions, and work out where coordinated parliamentary action may be useful.
Its subject is Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) and other unidentified or anomalous observations in the air and at sea, together with the emerging technologies and frontier science that help explain them. Governments and credible institutions have acknowledged such observations. ETIC exists so that legislators can understand them together, on the evidence, rather than one at a time.
Cross-party by design
Members come from across the political spectrum. Regional Co-Chairs are elected by the membership from a representative cross-section of the world's major political parties.
Evidence-led
ETIC promotes a rigorous, evidence-based approach. Observation, evidence, interpretation and hypothesis are kept distinct, and questions are approached without predetermined conclusions.
Confidential
Members are briefed and meet colleagues under the Chatham House Rule. Consultations with members and prospective members remain confidential.
About the SecretariatAdvena Research is the Scientific and Technical Secretariat of the Emerging Technologies Interparliamentary Caucus and its sole non-parliamentary institutional member.
Serving parliamentarians who share ETIC's purpose can contact the Secretariat at secretariat@etcaucus.org.