Bring the Nerds: How We Can Educate Government About the Internet
New America
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST
Basic Internet literacy can help foster sensible legislative positions on digital issues. An expert panel explores whether legislators and their staff have the resources necessary to build competence on Internet issues. Building on ongoing research (and a forthcoming white paper) on what tools are available for Congressional Internet education, we will explore what education exists, and what we can learn from challenges that educators have encountered.
Participants
Laurent Crenshaw
Director of Public Policy, Yelp
Former Congressional staffer
Tim Lordan
Executive Director, Internet Education Foundation (IEF)
Meg King
Director, Digital Futures Project, Wilson Center
Lorelei Kelly
Resilient Democracy Project Lead, Edward M Kennedy Institute for the Senate
Moderator:
Christian Dawson
Executive Director, i2Coalition