Upcoming event
A presentation of the newly released report from the Transatlantic High Level Working Group on Content Moderation Online and Freedom of Expression. The report’s recommendations are the culmination of a yearlong investigation by 28 legislators, government officials, tech executives, civil society leaders and academics from North America and Europe.
The hearing will review VA’s telehealth activities during the COVID-19 pandemic response.
Witnesses
Panel I
Dr. Jennifer MacDonald
Chief Consultant to the Deputy Undersecretary for Health
Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
(Lead Witness)
Mr. Jack Galvin
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for IT Development Security Operations
Office of Information Technology (OIT)
Dr. Neil Evans
Chief Officer, Office of Connected Care
Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Memorandum from Chairman Pallone to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce
Witnesses
Brandi Collins-Dexter
Senior Campaign Director
Color of Change
Hany Farid
Professor
University of California, Berkeley
In the last month there has been growing scrutiny over the FCC’s approval of Ligado. But Ligado is only the most recent flare up in fights between the FCC and federal agencies on 5G spectrum policy. This panel will feature bipartisan experts sharing their perspective on the FCC’s approval order, the integrity of the interagency process, and future of spectrum allocation.
Those interested in attending the virtual meeting will still be required to register. To learn more about remote participation, visit ICANN Public Meetings.
CBAN's Lunch and Learn webinar series features a discussion of New Market Tax Credits and how they can be used to leverage financing for fiber projects.
The hearing will provide members an opportunity to examine policy issues before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and review the agency’s ongoing activities and proceedings.
Witnesses
Digital platforms are today’s marketplace, library, and public square, and they are difficult for modern-day consumers to avoid. As people have moved so much of their lives online during the pandemic, digital platforms have grown more powerful than ever.
A virtual, fully remote legislative hearing on the bills including:
- H.R. 2611 (Rep. Jared Huffman), To support the establishment and improvement of communications sites on or adjacent to Federal lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture through the retention and use of rental fees associated with such sites, and for other purposes. “Public Lands Telecommunications Act.”
The Federal Trade Commission announced that the fifth annual PrivacyCon event, scheduled for July 21, 2020, will now take place online due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
PrivacyCon 2020 will bring together a diverse group of stakeholders, including researchers, academics, industry representatives, consumer advocates, and government officials, to discuss the latest research and trends related to consumer privacy and data security.
The economic crisis caused by COVID-19 will further strengthen big tech’s hold over the economy and society, without intervention. Already, small businesses and retail outlets across the country are in a free fall as the result of social distancing measures, leaving Amazon to gain an even larger share of the marketplace. Meanwhile, local restaurants struggling to stay in business are now turning to online ordering and delivery apps, like Grubhub, that charge excessive fees and face little to no regulation.
The inaugural episode of Informed & Engaged, a new weekly Knight show on the ideas and solutions impacting the media landscape, kicks off with a conversation that meets the moment but remains long overdue.
How do Americans weigh a core value like free expression against the downsides that come with harmful content and misinformation online? A new report by Gallup and Knight Foundation, being released June 16, explores attitudes toward key issues in tech policy, including content moderation, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and approaches to industry self-governance like Facebook’s Oversight Board. This new study provides a springboard for tech companies, government and citizens like to advance a conversation about free expression online.
Speakers
Join Knight Foundation and the Esserman family to celebrate the first winners of this annual prize for accountability reporting in South Florida, and get a behind-the-scenes look at how their groundbreaking stories came to be.
The event will feature conversations with:
Closing the digital divide is key to improving the country’s resiliency in times of crisis. Yet, accelerating spectrum allocation and deployment is crucial to closing the digital gap and preventing the further deepening of the divide. As the crisis continues to unfold and the demand for increased Internet access and 5G deployment keeps surging, it raises urgency around spectrum allocation. The webinar will address questions such as:
This training will provide an overview of the National Verifier system to users who may receive State-NV access.
COVID-19 has forced schools to quickly transition to distance learning models of education, and use technology to provide other school services like meal access and mental health services. Although privacy is not a new issue in education, these changes have created new risks to student privacy, often exacerbating existing inequities of access to education. Many of these concerns have been captured by alarming headlines across the country.
EuroDIG Workshop 12 'Community networks and smart solutions in remote areas – a bottom-up approach to digital citizenship
President Trump recently issued an executive order about online speech that requested the Federal Communications Commission clarify Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a key law of the digital economy that says Internet companies are not liable for content posted by users. In particular, the executive order calls on the FCC to identify when Internet companies may no longer qualify for the “good faith” provision of the law, such as for removing viewpoints that they oppose.
FCC Coimmissioner Michael O’Rielly and USTelecom CEO Jonathan Spalter in a conversation on how our nation’s policymakers and broadband innovators can work together to reinvigorate technology optimism during this period of social, public health, and economic turbulence.
With over 40 million Americans out of work, a global pandemic and widespread civil unrest, the role of technology in shaping our society and its future is of the utmost importance. Microsoft President Brad Smith joins Washington Post columnist David Ignatius to discuss how we can harness innovation to promote inclusive economic recovery, stop the spread of disease, and support social justice.
Stream here: wapo.st/technologyandsociety
The hearing will consider presidential nominations to the Department of Transportation, Department of Commerce, Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the Federal Communications Commission.
Witnesses
Cellular tower were once proprietary, before carriers partnered with infrastructure owners. Will shared infrastructure also take over small cells and 5G?
In this session, owners and investor in infrastructure-class assets will speak about the history and evolution of tower infrastructure - for cellular, and now for small cell and 5G. The panel will also consider how shared infrastructure models fares with data center and other cloud-based investments.