This is part 3 in a series of posts I’m developing into a white paper on “Regulation 2.0” for the Program on Municipal Innovation...
For the past several years, I have been an advisor to the Data-Smart City Solutions initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. This is...
Yesterday I spent part of the afternoon at a US Patent & Trademark Office roundtable discussion on using crowdsourcing to improve the patent...
I just donated to Christina Gagnier‘s campaign for congress. I’ve gotten to know Christina recently, and I really hope she’s able...
I spent the last two days in meetings with FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and his staff, discussing their proposed Open Internet rules (aka net neutrality)...
Over the weekend, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler sent a response to the letter that over 100 VCs and angel investors submitted last week. In the letter...
Over the past few weeks, the future of the open internet has come into sharp focus, as the FCC’s 2010 open internet rules were struck down in court...
Over the weekend, Christina pointed me to Uber’s new policy white paper on ridesharing. In a nutshell, Uber has decided to compete (with Lyft...
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is a law that intends to protect computer systems from intruders and criminals. For those that haven’t been...
One of my favorite advocates for “open innovation” is Ed Felten. Today, Ed has a post up that looks at some of the positive recent...
This week saw the publication of two very thoughtful articles on the impact that networks are having on society, and what that means for the future...
This week, the NYC’s black car association (limos and car services) filed suit to block the e-hail pilot that was set to begin today. The...
I consider myself an accidental policy person. In other words: I didn’t set out to study and understand how our policy decisions impact the world we...
Yesterday I spent the day at Princeton with Steve Schultze and the rest of the team at the Center for Information Technology Policy. The topic of my...
There is a practically non-stop flow of threats to the Internet. That’s because the Internet is fundamentally empowering and therefore also...
Steven Johnson, one of my all time favorite writers and thinkers has a new book out: Future Perfect – The Case for Progress in the Networked...
Today is the last day to submit comments to the White House on its plans for Intellectual Property enforcement for the coming year. This is yet...
One of the things I’ve learned over the past few months is that the fight for the future is being fought on many, many fronts — and these...
This morning started out in such a great way. I’m on a mailing list at the Media Lab called “awesome”, and this morning Kasia...