Live Blog: ‘An FCC For The Internet Age’
Silicon Flatirons, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, and Public Knowledge today are hosting a forum in Washington titled “An FCC for the Internet Age: Reform and Standard-Setting.”
Speakers at the event include:
- Paul de Sa, Mary Beth Richards and Austin Schlick of the FCC;
- Matthew Hussey, the telecommunications, commerce, science and education adviser to Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine;
- Nick Johnson, a former FCC commissioner who now teaches law at the University of Iowa;
- Susan Crawford, a law professor at the University of Michigan who last year served as the special assistant to President Obama for science, technology and innovation;
- Dale Hatfield, executive director of the Silicon Flatirons Center at the University of Colorado; and Mark Cooper and Pierre de Vries, senior adjunct fellows at the center;
- Robert Atkinson, the president of ITIF;
- Gigi Sohn, the president and co-founder of Public Knowledge;
- Kathryn Brown, the senior vice president of public policy and corporate responsibility at Verizon;
- Kathleen Wallman, the CEO of Wallman Strategic Consulting
- And Rick Whitt, the Washington telecommunications and media counsel for Google.
Digital Society will be tweeting and blogging live from the event. Follow us on Twitter at @DigiSociety, and stay tuned to the blog for updates from the conference.
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