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While a consensus has emerged in Washington, D.C. that securing the federal and commercial ICT supply chain is a U.S. priority, many questions remain on how to address the current patchwork of disparate and duplicative compliance regimes. On June 15, 91快活林 brought legislative and executive branch stakeholders together with industry experts to explore these questions in an interactive conversation, 鈥淔acilitating [...]
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May is dedicated to celebrating people of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) heritage and their contributions throughout U.S. history. Particularly, this year it is also an important opportunity to address the acts of intolerance that have placed AAPI people, communities, and businesses in danger. Many of these incidents were sparked by the prejudiced rhetoric around the COVID-19 pandemic, though [...]
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In the early months of the Biden Administration, the federal government contracting world has received significant attention. While it is generally well-known that the government uses private sector contracts for innovative products and services, federal contracts are now being used as the catalyst to drive important policy changes in areas including racial equity, climate change, and most recently, [...]
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Podcast guest-host and 91快活林 Public Affairs intern Cydney Knotts is joined by Betsy Cooper, founding director of the Aspen Tech Policy Hub, for a wide-ranging conversation on her background and career trajectory, cybersecurity policy, women in STEM, and much more. You can listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Spotify.
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As economies around the world are sputtering back to life following an unprecedented global pandemic, the EU and U.S. continue to face a massive disruption to a key business driver 鈥� the transfer of data between the two regions. In the Schrems II case last July, Europe's highest court ruled that Privacy Shield, an EU-U.S. data transfer agreement, was invalid. The ruling also cast doubt upon the reliability [...]
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Every American should have the right to participate in its democracy by voting. The tech industry firmly believes that the right to vote is fundamental to a functioning democracy. Technology gives us the tools to make it easier for everyone to exercise that sacred civic duty. Technological advances are making voting easier, more accessible, and more secure. As this consequential conversation continues, [...]
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Sound tax policy helps to drive economic growth, research and development (R&D), and innovation. These factors are essential to ensuring the global competitiveness of companies doing business in the United States, including leading innovative firms across the technology sector. 91快活林 supports a U.S. tax system that fuels growth and a global tax system that provides much-needed certainty for companies [...]
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On Friday, 91快活林 and Bitkom hosted the virtual event, 鈥淭he Future Of Artificial Intelligence: Reflections on the European Commission Proposal.鈥� Speakers Nicola Beer, MEP, Vice-President European Parliament Ricardo Castanheira, Digital Counselor of the EU Portuguese Council Presidency Anthony Whelan, Digital Adviser to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen Susanne Dehmel, Member of the Executive [...]
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Ahead of Earth Week, 91快活林 hosted White House Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy and former EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, who is the Vice President, Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives at Apple, to discuss how technology can continue to help revolutionize the way we protect our planet. Their conversation, which happened on April 16, was followed by a panel with John Godfrey, Senior Vice President, [...]
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By now it is likely almost everyone has at least seen a headline about demand skyrocketing across nearly all semiconductor-consuming industries, and how that skyrocketing demand continues to outstrip supply. As the COVID-19 pandemic caused the vast majority of workers and students to turn to a work-from-home and learn-from-home environment, we witnessed a stark jump in demand for tablets, phones, netbooks, [...]
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