Alec Ross: Using Digital Skills for Careers in Government (Re-posted)
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Re-posting: Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom
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Googlers discuss policy initiatives and SOPA with HKS community
Past and present Google employees joined Kennedy School students, fellows, and faculty today to discuss the Internet behemoth’s role in policy and the growing importance of transparency and privacy in Google products. Googlers in attendance included representatives from Google’s transparency initiative and Global Industrial Relations team. Talk quickly turned to the company’s response to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. [...]
Tech{for}Change member wins I-Lab's StartUp Weekend
Rory Smith, one of Tech{for}Change’s founding members, helped develop the social engaging platform TownHall140. TownHall140 is a live video chat and Twitter enabled platform that gives users face time with government government officials and related staff. Rory’s group “unanimously walked away this weekend’s winner”, wrote Lauren Landry from Boston Innovation. Check the complete news following the link here.