The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation holds policy forums to discuss new and creative policy proposals to advance innovation and technology issues. ITIF analyzes existing policy issues through the lens of advancing innovation and productivity, and opposes policies that hinder digital transformation and innovation. http://www.itif.org/ en-us Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:00:00 -0400 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:00:00 -0400 FeedForAll Mac v1.0 (1.0.1.0) unlicensed version Technology and Innovation Public Policy The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation holds policy forums to discuss new and creative policy proposals to advance innovation and technology issues. ITIF analyzes existing policy issues through the lens of advancing innovation and productivity, and opposes policies that hinder digital transformation and innovation. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation mail@itif.org no http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=229 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2009-03-17-HealthIT.mp3 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:00:00 -0400 1:25:17 Traditionally, health researchers conduct in vivo or in vitro studies-medical studies using either living organisms or test tubes. But recent advances in IT from processing power to storage have opened up the possibility of conducting in silico studies, or medical studies conducted by computer simulations or computer modeling. Today, a variety of projects exist to harness massive amounts of computing power and data to tackle important health issues—from cancer research to real-time biosurveillance to drug safety to monitoring trends in the flu season. Join ITIF for a conversation with a distinguished panel of experts from some of the leading projects in this field to discuss how IT is shaping medical research. In addition, this event will explore possible national strategies to advance these technologies for the benefit of all Americans. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2009-03-17-HealthIT.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Health IT, Electronic Health Records, Medical Research, Human Genome Project, Effectiveness Research, Stimulus The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=225 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2009-03-05-TheNeedforSpeed.mp3 Thu, 5 Mar 2009 05:00:00 -0400 1:28:47 ITIF will release a report on the need for next-generation broadband in the United States. The report will document how the transformative functionalities that next-generation broadband enables will unlock a wave of innovative new Web applications, delivering benefits to consumers, society, businesses, and the economy. While getting broadband service to the Americans who lack it is an important policy target, the report argues that supporting the deployment of faster broadband networks will be crucial to enabling next-generation Web-based applications and services that will play important roles in improving quality of life and boosting economic growth. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2009-03-05-TheNeedforSpeed.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Broadband, Next-generation, Internet, Fiber The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=224 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2009-02-25-EABCRelease.mp3 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:00:00 -0400 1:33:46 Find out which countries are leading, and which are lagging, in the increasingly internationally-competitive, knowledge- and innovation-based global economy, when ITIF releases its The Atlantic Century: Benchmarking U.S. and EU Innovation and Competitiveness. The report, sponsored by the European-American Business Council, ranks 36 countries as well as the NAFTA region and the EU-15, EU-10 and EU-25 areas on 16 indicators in five key areas—human capital, innovation capacity, entrepreneurship, information and technology infrastructure, economic policy factors and economic performance—on the extent to which their economies are able to compete globally. The report also assess the progress made by each country and region of the last decade in order to see not only which countries are leading today but which have been gaining ground and likely to tomorrow’s global leaders. The event will feature presentations from report author Dr. Robert Atkinson, President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, John Kao, author of Innovation Nation, Vivek Wadhwa, Executive in residence/adjunct professor at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University and Charles Vest, President of the National Academy of Engineering and former President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2009-02-25-EABCRelease.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Innovation, Competitiveness, Europe, United States, Ranking The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=217 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2009-02-11-KoreanGreenNewDeal.mp3 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:00:00 -0400 1:16:20 Korea recently declared its ambitious vision for Low-Carbon Green Growth in order to deal with the climate change issue and create a new development paradigm. Please join us for a presentation by Dr. Suk Joon Kim, President of the Korean Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI), who will discuss the new Korean low-carbon, green innovation strategy with a particular focus on the role of information and communications technology (IT) in the strategy. He will be joined by Dr. Jung Hyup, Senior Researcher, STEPI. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2009-02-11-KoreanGreenNewDeal.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Information technology, IT, Korea, Green, Low-Carbon, Growth The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=219 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2009-01-30-RShapiro.mp3 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:00:00 -0400 1:18:03 Under current tax law, U.S. companies can defer the U.S. tax on the profits earned by their foreign-based subsidiaries until they transfer those profits back to the parent company here in the United States. The result is that some $1 trillion in the profits of U.S. companies remain abroad, especially profits earned in countries with low tax rates. Much of those profits are invested in foreign money instruments, and some are used for additional foreign direct investment – and most of them stay abroad indefinitely, providing a boon to foreign economies. But they could provide substantial economic stimulus for our own economy today, if we could induce companies to repatriate them. In their new report, Robert Shapiro and Aparna Mathur analyze the impact of temporarily reducing the U.S. tax on repatriated profits on U.S. jobs, capital investment, and the financial squeeze. As the economy continues to struggle, Drs. Shapiro and Mathur show how repatriation could be a cost-free way of stimulating the economy. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2009-01-30-RShapiro.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Stimulus, Repatriation, Taxes The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=216 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2009-01-26-BBStimulus.mp3 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:00:00 -0400 0:53:14 The need for robust stimulus package provides a unique opportunity to spur the deployment of broadband telecommunications, and as ITIF has documented, to create or retain a substantial number of jobs. But unless broadband stimulus measures are crafted in a way that spurs the most investment for a given amount of public support, the opportunity for economic stimulus and broadband deployment will be reduced. At this event we discuss current and proposed broadband stimulus proposals and what provisions are most important to ensuring the largest possible impact on broadband deployment. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2009-01-26-BBStimulus.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Broadband, Internet, Stimulus The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=213 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2009-01-13-Standards.mp3 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:00:00 -0400 1:18:05 Globalization has changed not just the face of technology-based competition but, by implication, the face of global standardization. Standards are key to efficient, widespread deployment of new technologies and innovations, and increasingly they play a key role in determining global market access and national competitiveness. As traditional aspects of trade are minimized (e.g., tariff barriers) standards are playing a more central role in trade. Indeed, not only does the current global framework for standardization include trade agreements (including WTO Agreements and a multiplicity of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements) but the drive by many economies to become standards leaders, and in some cases to use standards for mercantilist ends. On January 13, 2009 ITIF held a breakfast forum on Globalization and Technology Standards as four internationally recognized experts in the field provided an overview of the global framework for standardization, and the respective roles of the government and private sector in the United States in setting direction for the U.S. standards system and its interface with the global system. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2009-01-13-Standards.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Innovation, Globalization, Technology, Competition The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=211 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2009-01-07-DigitalRoadtoRecovery.mp3 Wed, 7 Jan 2009 05:00:00 -0400 1:24:01 As Congress considers a substantial stimulus package to get the economy moving, investing in new economy digital infrastructures will provide significant opportunities not just for short-term stimulus and job creation, but also longer term economic and social benefits. In the report, “The Digital Road to Recovery: A Stimulus Plan to Create Jobs, Boost Productivity and Revitalize America,” ITIF provides a detailed analysis and estimate of the short-term jobs impacts of spurring investment in three critical digital networks: broadband networks, the smart grid (making the electric distribution system intelligent) and health IT, and outlines policy steps to spur this investment. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2009-01-07-DigitalRoadtoRecovery.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Innovation, Economics, Stimulus, Health IT, Smart Grid, Broadband, Jobs The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=204 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-12-17-ComplexEconomies.mp3 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:00:00 -0400 1:34:38 If the tectonic economic events of the last few months have shown us anything it’s that many of the core assumptions embedded in the prevailing neoclassical economic doctrine that drives much of Washington’s thinking on economic policy are no longer valid. Moreover, recent theoretical and empirical work has called into question the core tenants of the neo-classical doctrine--that markets are stable, are driven by rational actors responding solely to price signals, and require little role for government in driving growth. Indeed, this new work, much of it based in the fields of behavioral economics and complexity theory, have shown that economic systems act less like well-structured systems in equilibrium and more like chaotic, complex systems whose outcomes are unstable and can vary widely based on seemingly minor changes. Please join us for an event to discuss this new research and its implications for economic policy, including economic regulation. ITIF President Rob Atkinson will discuss his article in The Democracy Journal which reviews two leading books on the topic: Michael Heller’s The Gridlock Economy : How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives and Eric Beinhocker’s The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics. Atkinson will be joined by two leading technology industry representatives, Rick Whitt of Google and Marc Berejka of Microsoft, both of whom have written provocative new work on the role of complexity in shaping our thinking about regulation. In addition, Robert Axtell, External Professor, Santa fe Institute and Professor and Chair, George Mason University, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, and one of the world’s leading scholars on complexity theory, and author of new research on the role of complex networks in driving innovation, will provide comments. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-12-17-ComplexEconomies.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Innovation, Economics, Regulation, Growth The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=203 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-12-11-NetworkManagement.mp3 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:00:00 -0400 1:25:42 There is perhaps no telecommunications policy issue as contentious, or as poorly understood, as the issue of broadband network management. At the most basic level this issue boils down to a technical one: do modern broadband networks need to be “managed” by ISPs, or will big “dumb” pipes suffice in ensuring a high quality broadband experience? Unfortunately, to date this debate has been little informed by knowledge of exactly how advanced networks and the different types of applications that run on them work. In a new report, A Policymaker’s Guide to Network Management, ITIF Senior Analyst George Ou explains how advanced networks actually work and documents how, if ISPs are to provide customers a good Internet service and operate their networks efficiently, they must be able to allocate bandwidth between users and apply network management tools to shape traffic from multiple applications. However, Ou argues that ISPs can and should do this in a fair and non-discriminatory manner. Unfortunately, these solutions have come under heavy criticism from many advocates of net neutrality who long for the idealized golden days of the early “dumb” Internet that, in fact, never was. They fear that using efficient network management techniques may enable the network operators to abuse their power, stifling free speech and civic expression and erecting unfair barriers to new market entrants. Moreover, some net neutrality proponents fear that any improvement in the efficiency of the Internet will eliminate the motivation of ISPs to build bigger pipes. However, many if not most of these fears stem from a lack of understanding of the history of the Internet, the economics of the ISP industry, and the science of network engineering. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-12-11-NetworkManagement.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Information Technology, Broadband, Networks, Net Neutrality, Network Management, United States The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=188 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-11-21-BBCompetitionDebate.mp3 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:00:00 -0400 1:35:59 Broadband access spurs economic growth and enhances the quality of life, but for Americans to enjoy broadband services at the optimal combination of speed, access, and price, having a satisfactory level of competition will be essential. Some believe that broadband markets are already robustly competitive, others see them as monopolistic or at best oligopolistic and that American consumers suffer higher broadband costs and poorer service options from inadequate levels of competition. ITIF will explore this crucial topic on Friday, November 21 from 9:00am – 11:00am with a spirited debate between Jeff Eisenach, Chairman of Empiris LLC (and former founder and president of the Progress and Freedom Foundation); Ev Ehrlich, President of ESC Company (and former Clinton Administration Undersecretary of Commerce); and John Windhausen, President of Telepoly (and former president of the Association for Local Telecommunications Services). Eisenach and Ehrlich will argue that the current broadband market is competitive and will present two new papers, respectively, “The Reality of Competition in the Broadband Market” and “U.S. Broadband Policies: A Market-Oriented Success Story.” Windhausen will respond, arguing that the broadband market is not fully competitive. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-11-21-BBCompetitionDebate.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Information Technology, Broadband, Competitiveness, United States, Debate The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=193 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-11-20-DutchRoadPricing.mp3 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:00:00 -0400 1:15:21 Dr. Joris Al, General Director of The Netherlands’ Centre for Transport and Navigation in the Ministry of Transport, will present on Holland’s bold new proposal for a nationwide pay-per-use road pricing program. Holland’s “Kilometerprijs ” (price per kilometer) program will replace fixed vehicle (ownership and gas) taxes to charge Dutch citizens by their annual distances driven, differentiated by time, place, and environmental characteristics. The program, which will begin with distance-based charging for heavy-goods transport in 2011, followed by passenger vehicles one year later, will use advanced satellite technology coupled with an on-board vehicle Telematics system to collect usage. Dr. Al will speak about the political and programmatic evolution of the Kilometerprijs initiative, explain how key design, funding, and technical architecture decisions were made, describe how important interest groups have committed themselves, discuss the anticipated economic and environmental effects, and chart the next steps toward implementation of the Kilometerprijs program. As U.S. gas tax revenues continue to decline, in part because vehicles now get increased mileage, the United States can learn valuable lessons from the Dutch experience. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-11-20-DutchRoadPricing.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Information Technology, Telematics, Netherlands, Transportation The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=198 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-11-18-2008SNEI.mp3 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:00:00 -0400 1:28:51 Find out which states are leading, and which are lagging, in the United States’ transformation to a global, entrepreneurial, digital, and knowledge- and innovation-based New Economy, when ITIF releases its 2008 State New Economy Index. The Index, sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, ranks states on 29 indicators in five key areas—knowledge jobs, globalization, entrepreneurial dynamism, IT, and innovation—on the extent to which their economies are effectively structured to operate and compete regionally as well as globally. The report also lays out an innovation-based policy agenda designed to help states succeed economically in these turbulent times. The event will feature presentations from report author Dr. Robert Atkinson, President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, and Dr. Robert Litan, Vice President of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-11-18-2008SNEI.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Information Technology, Competitiveness, United States, Economy, States, Ranking The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=188 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-11-17-GreenIT.mp3 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 -0400 1:35:59 Not much attention has been paid to the role of information technology (IT) in reducing carbon emissions; in fact, some people even see IT as contributing to the problem because the IT infrastructure and devices themselves consume electricity. Yet by transforming all sectors of the economy and society—from e-commerce and just-in-time manufacturing to telecommuting and clean alternative energy technologies—IT is allowing the U.S. economy to become more energy efficient and less carbon intensive. In this event, ITIF will discuss the findings from the report, Digital Quality of Life: Energy that explores the impact of IT on energy. In addition, ITIF will be joined by a panel of experts from leading IT companies to discuss new innovations in energy-efficient computing, the overall net impact of IT on energy consumption, strategies to promote “green” uses of IT. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-11-17-GreenIT.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Information Technology, Green IT, Competitiveness, United States, Energy, SmartGrid The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=183 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-10-14-darpa.mp3 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:00:00 -0400 1:26:10 ITIF will be hosting a breakfast forum on Tuesday, October 14th with Dr. Erica Fuchs, Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Fuchs will discuss the results of a new study examining the role of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) between 1992 and the present on innovation in the United States. In recent years, there has been rising concern over the ability of the United States to remain competitive in the global economy. In particular, the shift of the U.S. innovation system away from vertically integrated firms with large R&D labs, toward networked firms with interdependent technologies has created new challenges for cross-firm coordination and long-term innovation. These challenges raise important questions on the appropriate and most successful roles for federal programs within this framework. To shed insights into these questions, Dr. Fuchs unpacks the processes by which DARPA traditionally had great success in influencing technology development, and assesses the implications of recent changes in DARPA for its effectiveness within the new innovation ecosystem. Dr. Fuchs’ study focuses on DARPA’s Microsystems Technology office, and its role in technology development in photonics, microelectronics, and other technologies supporting Moore’s Law. Drawing on in-depth field interviews of DARPA program managers, as well as additional interviews of technologists within the five established computing firms, start-ups, universities and government institutions, Dr. Fuchs provides fresh insights into the role of DARPA, how that role can be improved, and what the implications are for federal innovation policy. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-10-14-darpa.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Science, Technology, Research, Development, Innovation, United States, DARPA The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=178 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-10-02-dqol.mp3 Thu, 2 Oct 2008 05:00:00 -0400 1:14:02 In 2007, ITIF released the groundbreaking report Digital Prosperity: Understanding the Economic Benefits of the Information Technology Revolution that documented how IT, since the mid-1990s, has been the principal driver of increased economic growth not only in the United States but also in many other nations. Now ITIF is pleased to announce the release of a companion report, Digital Quality of Life: Understanding the Personal and Social Benefits of the Information Technology Revolution, that shows how IT is the key enabler of many, if not most, of today’s key innovations and improvements in our lives and society—from better education and health care, to a cleaner and more energy efficient environment, to safer and more secure communities. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-10-02-dqol.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Science, Technology, Education, Competitiveness, United States, Quality of Life, Microsoft The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=166 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-09-30-tassey.mp3 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:00:00 -0400 1:34:04 ITIF will host a breakfast forum with Dr. Gregory Tassey to discuss his new book The Technology Imperative and how national technological investments can spur economic growth. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-09-30-tassey.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Economics, Technology, Competitiveness, United States, Technology Policy The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=168 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-09-10-RandReportRelease.mp3 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:00:00 -0400 1:31:25 Over the last several years a number of reports – headlined by Rising Above the Gathering Storm – have raised the alarm over the deteriorating state of U.S. science and technology competitiveness and documented how the country is falling behind in key building blocks of the science and technology base. Now bursting onto the scene is a new report from the RAND Corporation, U.S. Competitiveness in Science and Technology, that calls into question what appeared to be settled assessments of slipping U.S. science and technology competitiveness. Covered widely in magazines like The Economist (What Crisis? June 12, 2008 issue), RAND’s report has been interpreted by many to suggest that worries about the United States losing its edge in science and technology are actually overblown: everything’s just fine. But RAND’s report contains serious structural and analytic flaws that misread the fundamental position of U.S. science and technology competitiveness. In a new report, RAND’s Rose-Colored Glasses: How RAND’s Report on U.S. Competitiveness in Science and Technology Gets it Wrong, ITIF will offer a detailed critique of the RAND report that shows that in contrast to RAND’s rosy assessment, America’s lead on a number of key science and technology indicators is eroding rapidly, where not vanishing entirely. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-09-10-RandReportRelease.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Science, Technology, Education, Competitiveness, United States, RAND The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=169 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-09-09-TimeToEndBBPolicyWars.mp3 Tue, 9 Sep 2008 05:00:00 -0400 1:24:31 In recent years, the debate over broadband policy has become a partisan war that makes it extremely difficult to have any sensible and analytically-based discussion of the critical issues in this policy area. In a new report, “Moving to a Post-Partisan Broadband Policy World,” ITIF calls for an end, or at least a serious de-escalation, of the conflict. Please join us for a release of the report and a discussion by panelists on all sides of the issue. While we’re not expecting everyone to be holding hands and singing Kumbaya by the end of the event, we do think there can at least be some common ground. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-09-09-TimeToEndBBPolicyWars.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Broadband, Policy, Debate, Comcast, Net Neutrality, Internet The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=153 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-07-15-lipsey.mp3 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:00:00 -0400 0:57:54 ITIF hosted a forum with noted economist Dr. Richard Lipsey, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University. Dr. Lipsey discussed the findings from his the award winning 2006 book, Economic Transformations: General Purpose Technologies and Long Term Growth, arguing that growth is powered principally by “evolutionary change” driven by technological revolutions that have regularly transformed our economic, social and political landscapes. Lipsey argues that we are in the midst of such a transformation today, driven by the information technology revolution. These revolutions don’t just transform economies; they transform, or at least should transform, economic policies. Lipsey argues that the conventional neo-classical economics that guides much of Washington’s economic thinking is outdated, being rooted in the economy of the last half of the 20th century. Rather, he contends that a new “innovation economics” is required if we are to successfully grow the U.S. economy in the first half of the 21st century. Dr. Lipsey is the author of several economics textbooks, including Positive Economics , that have been translated into nearly 20 foreign languages and nearly 200 articles in journals and books on various aspects of theoretical and applied economics. He is also the holder of the gold medal for achievement in research from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-07-15-lipsey.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Economics, Policy, Growth, Innovaion The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=133 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-05-06-productivity.mp3 Tue, 6 May 2008 05:00:00 -0400 1:37:57 Despite the fact that most economists agree that increasing productivity is the most important goal for economic policy, few scholars have actually focused on what drives productivity and what governments can do. An exception to this is Bill Lewis, founding director of the McKinsey Global Institute and former partner at McKinsey and Company. At this ITIF Forum, Lewis will discuss the results of his research and present the findings from his book, The Power of Productivity: Wealth, Poverty, and the Threat to Global Stability. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-05-06-productivity.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Productivity, Policy, Competition The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=139 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-05-01-Broadband.mp3 Thu, 1 May 2008 05:00:00 -0400 1:18:13 It is hard to follow broadband policy without hearing almost weekly that the U.S. ranks 15th out of 30 OECD nations in broadband penetration. But understanding why the U.S. is behind is much harder. In a major new report, entitled Explaining International Broadband Leadership, that examines OECD nations through in-depth case studies and statistical analysis, ITIF attempts to do just that. We invite you to a release event to learn about the report’s results, and to answer key questions. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-05-01-Broadband.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Broadband, Policy, Network, Internet, Competition The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=128 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-03-12-NetworkManagement.mp3 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:00:00 -0400 1:33:25 ITIF hosted an event to debate the technical and economic reasons ISPs may need to manage their networks in the face of increasing bandwidth demands. The event included remarks by Richard Bennett, a network architect and expert on network management issues, and Brett Glass, owner and founder of LARIAT, a Wyoming ISP. Following their remarks, ITIF President Robert Atkinson moderated a wide-ranging discussion. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-03-12-NetworkManagement.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Broadband, Policy, Network, management, FCC, net neutrality The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=123 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-02-22-OnlineShopping.mp3 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:00:00 -0400 0:54:18 Americans are of two minds about e-commerce; they like its convenience, but they worry about issues like sending credit card information over the Internet. At this upcoming ITIF Forum, John Horrigan of the Pew Internet and American Life Project will discuss the results of a new Pew study examining the prospects and challenges in expanding e-commerce shopping. In particular, John will discuss the frictions and barriers in the online shopping environment and where to target efforts to address those frictions so that all Americans can benefit. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-02-22-OnlineShopping.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Broadband, Policy, Shopping, e-commerce, barriers The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=117 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-01-24-ConstructionIndustry.mp3 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:00:00 -0400 1:19:46 Construction costs continue to spiral out of control because the industry has not invested in technology, particularly information technology, to boost productivity. At this event, construction industry expert Barry LePatner will discuss how to fix the problem, including how information technology can play a key role in lowering construction costs and what the federal government can do to help. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-01-24-ConstructionIndustry.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Information Technology, IT, Construction, Housing, Market, Policy, Strategy The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=115 http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-01-22-BB.mp3 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:00:00 -0400 1:27:28 An event marking the publication of a new ITIF report articulating a national broadband strategy. ITIF President Rob Atkinson will present proposals from the report. Larry Irving, President and CEO of the Irving Information Group, and Blair Levin, Managing Director at Stifel Nicolaus, will respond. <p><a href="http://www.itif.org/files/audio/2008-01-22-BB.mp3">Play now</a></p> no Broadband, Policy, Strategy The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation