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A Discussion on Federal Internet Policymaking
Featuring Daniel Weitzner, Deputy Chief Technology Officer
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Tuesday, July 10
12:00 - 1:30 PM

How is federal Internet policymaking similar to and different from more traditional approaches to regulatory policy?

Hudson Institute's Center for the Economics of the Internet hosted a discussion featuring Daniel Weitzner, the Deputy Chief Technology Officer in charge of Internet policy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, who explored this and other questions.

Before being named the leading official for Internet policy at the White House, Weitzner served as Associate Administrator for Policy at the United States Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Prior to joining the Obama administration, Weitzner, whose articles have appeared in Science, Wired, and the Yale Law Journal, held numerous posts, including Policy Director for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'s Technology and Society activities; Principal Research Scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he created the MIT CSAIL Information Group; and Co-Founder and Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology.

The discussion was moderated by Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Harold Furchtgott-Roth, Director of the Center for Economics of the Internet.

Daniel Weitzner and Harold Furchtgott-Roth

Location: Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center
Hudson Institute
1015 15th St, NW
6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005 www.hudson.org  

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