FCC Commissioner McDowell to Keynote 1/19 Launch of TechFreedom & “The Next Digital Decade”
by Berin Szoka on January 14, 2011 · 2 comments
FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell will be interviewed by veteran tech reporter Declan McCullagh of CNET in a “fireside chat” on tech policy at TechFreedom‘s half-day symposium to introduce its first publication: The Next Digital Decade: Essays on the Future of the Internet.
TechFreedom is a new non-profit, non-partisan think tank. Our mission is to promote the progress of technology that improves the human condition and expands individual capacity to choose. We advance the freedoms that make experimentation, entrepreneurship and investment possible, and thus unleash the ultimate resource: human ingenuity. On a wide variety of issues, TechFreedom will outline a path forward for policymakers towards a bright future where technology enhances freedom, and freedom enhances technology.
The Next Digital Decade brings together 26 thought leaders on Internet law, philosophy, policy and economics to consider the future of the Internet, from a wide variety of perspectives. This book is essential reading for anyone gazing toward the digital future. The symposium features authors from a selection of the ten organizing questions asked in the book. You can read, download or buy the book here.
| What: |
TechFreedom & The Next Digital Decade Book Launch |
| When: |
Wednesday, January 19
12:30-5:30 p.m. Symposium
5:30-7:15 p.m. Cocktail reception |
| Where: |
Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill
Columbia B, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC |
| Who: |
Panel 1: Internet Optimism, Pessimism & the Future of Online Culture
- Berin Szoka, TechFreedom (Moderator)
- Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur
- Adam Thierer, Mercatus Center
- Prof. Ann Bartow, South Carolina School of Law
Panel 2: Internet Exceptionalism & Intermediary Deputization
- Adam Thierer, Mercatus Center (Moderator)
- Prof. Eric Goldman, Santa Clara School of Law
- Josh Goldfoot
- Prof. H. Brian Holland, Texas Wesleyan School of Law
- Prof. Mark MacCarthy, Georgetown University
- Prof. Frank Pasquale, Seton Hall Law School
Panel 3: Who Will Govern the Net in 2020?
- Berin Szoka, TechFreedom (Moderator)
- Prof. David Johnson, New York Law School
- Prof. Milton Mueller, Syracuse University
- Shane Tews, VeriSign
- Chris Wolf, Hogan Lovells
Fireside Chat on the Next Digital Decade
- Hon. Robert McDowell, FCC Commissioner
- Declan McCullagh, CNET
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To Register: Registration is free but space is limited, so attendees must register in advance. Event questions and media inquiries should be directed to Adam Marcus at amarcus@techfreedom.org.
The event will be also be streamed live on Ustream. Tweet about the event by mentioning @Digital_Decade.
Berin Szoka / Berin is the founder of TechFreedom. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation and Director of PFF's Center for Internet Freedom. He covers Internet and media policy issues including privacy, advertising, neutrality, cybersecurity, free speech, child safety, and various other efforts to regulate the Net.
Berin was elected in 2010 to the Steering Committee of the DC Bar Association's Computer & Telecommunications Law Section. Before joining PFF, he practiced communications, Internet and satellite law as an Associate in the Communications Practice Group at Latham & Watkins LLP. Previously, he practiced at Lawler Metzger, a boutique telecommunications law firm in Washington and clerked for the late Hon. H. Dale Cook, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
A recognized expert on the legal and regulatory issues associated with space commercialization, Berin is a member of the FAA's Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC). He is a Director, and former Chairman, of the Space Frontier Foundation, a citizens' advocacy group founded in 1988 and dedicated to opening the space frontier by enabling "NewSpace."
He received his Bachelor's degree in economics from Duke University and his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as Submissions Editor of the Virginia Journal of Law & Technology.
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