"His interest in the work of the ITU was also visible in October 2016, when McDowell co-authored (with Gordon M. Goldstein) an article in the Wall Street Journal, which addresses the topic of the ITU and its work on Internet of Things and Digital Object Architecture.In November 2013, McDowell was appointed to the Panel on the Future of Global Internet Cooperation and Governance Mechanisms - a diverse global group of Internet policy stakeholders from government, civil society, the private sector, the technical community and international organizations.