Events

CITP Lecture Series: Paul Misener – Innovation with Purpose: Working Backwards at Amazon and Creating Cases of First Impression for Policymakers

Sherrerd Hall, 3rd Floor Open Space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKNoSRNAwdw At Amazon, we innovate on behalf of customers. Some of our most important innovations seemed downright crazy at first, and nearly all were initially derided by some observers. Customer Reviews, Marketplace, Amazon Web Services, CreateSpace, Kindle, Fulfillment by Amazon, and Amazon Prime Air are but a few of the innovations that have puzzled pundits. […]

CITP Lecture Series: Silvia Lindtner – Making China: Cultivating Entrepreneurial Living

Sherrerd Hall Sherrerd Hall, Princeton, NJ, United States

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-8rlm0SqMY This talk is co-sponsored by: During an official “inspection tour” to the manufacturing hub Shenzhen in the South of China in 2015, the Chinese prime minister Li Keqiang visited the local makerspace Chaihuo 柴火. The prime minister lauded Chaihuo for its entrepreneurial mindset and proclaimed that its innovation attitude was to be supported by […]

CITP Lecture Series: Joseph Calandrino – Consumer Protection in the Digital Age

101 Sherrerd Hall

This talk will provide an introduction to the FTC, including what the agency does and how it operates. We will discuss some of the FTC’s relevant recent activity before moving on to the role of OTech and its research. Finally, we will explore the important role that outside researchers can play in promoting consumer welfare.

CITP Lecture Series: Julie Zoller – Diplomacy Meets Technology Policy

Sherrerd Hall, 3rd Floor Open Space

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) enrich everyday life and are essential to the global economy. Whether it is the allocation of the radio frequency spectrum for mobile wireless, supporting the free flow of information, or adopting voluntary technical standards, we need international policies that foster innovation and economic growth. This talk will explore how the United States engages stakeholders to develop international policy positions and negotiates with foreign governments to advance tomorrow’s technologies.

Internet Privacy Technology and Policy: What Lies Ahead?

Sherrerd Hall, 3rd Floor Open Space

Last November, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a landmark privacy rule governing how Internet service providers (ISPs) could collect and share customer data. On April 4, 2017, President Trump signed a joint resolution that repealed this rule before it could ever take effect.

This panel will discuss how we arrived at this juncture and how the Internet privacy landscape may evolve in light of these developments. We will also explore the roles (and shortcomings) of both policy and technical mechanisms in protecting user privacy on the Internet.