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1:05 pm on April 20, 2026 · 2026 (270), AI governance (19), georgetown (7)

WEBCAST 23 APR 20:00 UTC – Georgetown on the Hill – Making AI Work: Productivity, Diffusion, and Policy

April 20, 2026 by ISOC Live

Promotional banner for a Georgetown University event titled “Making AI Work: Productivity, Diffusion, and Policy.” The design features a blue overlay with a background image of the U.S. Capitol building. At the top are logos and text for “Georgetown on The Hill” and the Center for Business and Public Policy at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. The event details at the bottom read: “April 23 | Rayburn 2060 | 4–5:30 p.m.”

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On Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 16:00-17:30 EDT (20:00-21:30 UTC) the Georgetown University Center for Business and Public Policy will host a panel ‘Making AI Work: Productivity, Diffusion, and Policy‘ in Washington DC.

Emerging empirical research provides evidence that artificial intelligence (AI) is generating meaningful productivity gains. However, similar to previous waves of digital technology, these gains appear uneven across firms and countries. This raises many policy questions, including why these productivity gaps are emerging and what can be done to ensure effective diffusion and broad-based growth. Potential explanations include skill mismatches, limited access to compute and data, and constraints in existing infrastructure such as the power grid.

SPEAKERS
Josh Connolly – Senior Manager, U.S. Policy and Economic Graph, LinkedIn
Carol Corrado – Senior Policy Scholar, Georgetown University’s Center for Business and Public Policy
Olivia Igbokwe-Curry – U.S. Head for Congressional and Political Affairs, Amazon Web Services
Rachel Mural – Research Associate, Belfer Center Environment and Natural Resources Program, Harvard University

MODERATOR
Tim DeStefano – Associate Research Professor, Georgetown McDonough.

#Georgetown #AIgovernance

1:29 pm on January 13, 2022 · georgetown (7), internet freedom (81), Konstantinos Komaitis (8), netfreedom (8), rebecca mackinnon (13), SOPA (14)

WEBCAST JAN 18 – Regulating the Internet Ten Years after the SOPA/PIPA Blackout

January 13, 2022 by ISOC Live

On Tuesday 18 January 2022 at 11:00-12:30 EST (16:30-17:30 UTC) the Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown Law hosts a webinar ‘Regulating the Internet Ten Years after the SOPA/PIPA Blackout‘. Calls to regulate the internet more strictly are now commonplace, but a new report from Freedom House observes both the promise and peril of internet regulation. The global drive to control big tech thus carries a seeming contradiction: it can be an expression of democracy but can also support authoritarianism. On the tenth anniversary of the blackout of Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, and Mozilla in response to proposed internet regulation in the U.S., we ask what we learned from the SOPA/PIPA debates, take stock of where internet regulation stands today, and ask what internet regulations carry the most promise or risk today.

OPENING CONVERSATION
Jimmy Wales, founder, Wikipedia

PANEL
Rebecca MacKinnon, Vice President, Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation
Allie Funk, Senior research analyst for technology and democracy, Freedom House
Vivek Krishnamurthy, Samuelson-Glushko Professor of Law, University of Ottawa
Konstantinos Komaitis, Independent Internet Policy consultant / Policy Fellow, Brave New Software Foundation

HOST / MODERATOR
Anupam Chander, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown Law

This event will be simulcast via a partnership with the Internet Society Washington DC Chapter

LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/sopa-pipa10

PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3zTrXA6

REAL TIME TEXT (see ISOC.LIVE)

TWITTER #FreedomOnTheNet @GtownTechLaw @jimmy_wales @AnupamChander @alfunk @kkomaitis @vivekdotca @rmack @freedomonthenet #netfreedom #netgov

SIMULCASTS
https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ (AI Captions)

ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/sopa-pipa10

1:10 pm on October 24, 2018 · COPPA (2), georgetown (7), kids (14)

WEBCAST TODAY: COPPA at 20: Protecting Children’s Privacy in the New Digital Era @GtownTechLaw

October 24, 2018 by ISOC Live

Today, Wednesday October 24 2018 at 12:15pm EDT (16:15 UTC) the Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy will co-host a half-day conference COPPA at 20: Protecting Children’s Privacy in the New Digital Era on the 20-year legacy of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and how to protect children’s privacy in the new digital era. Two decades of digital advances have dramatically changed the ways in which children interact with the internet, and the way big data is collected. How well are COPPA and regulators keeping up with challenges to children’s privacy and wellbeing? What are key questions that remain around the interpretation of the law? And what lessons can COPPA provide around novel approaches to self-regulation, the enforcement landscape and the future of broader privacy regulations? Speakers include FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter and Senator Ed Markey. The event will be simulcast on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.

View on Livestream: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/coppaat20
View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/X0mq4ZR0k9g
Agenda: https://www.georgetowntech.org/coppa
Twitter: #coppaat20 http://bit.ly/coppaat20

6:56 am on July 28, 2015 · daniel berninger (3), dave farber (13), georgetown (7), IP transition (2), larry downes (3), mcdonough (3), telecom (19)

VIDEO: Completing the #IPTransition @GeorgetownCBPP

July 28, 2015 by isoc-ny

On June 24 2015 the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy hosted a symposium Completing the IP Transition: Confronting Technical Challenges and Maximizing Consumer Benefits. Given the premise that too little attention has been paid to either the underlying technical challenges or new consumer value of the the transition of today’s analog telephone network to the all-IP infrastructure of the Internet, participants considered the principle that reaching finish line requires policymakers and stakeholders to understand better the remaining engineering hurdles inherent in the on-going process, as well as the benefits that can be fully realized only with full implementation. The session comprised a keynote and two panels that explored these facets, technical and social. Video is below.

Keynote: Henning Schulzrinne, Professor, Columbia University and former Chief Technologist, Federal Communications Commission
Introduction: John Mayo, Professor of Economics, Business and Public Policy, Georgetown University and Executive Director, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy

View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FE6fR4MiiCA

PANEL 1: Technical Challenges and How Best to Resolve Them
Speakers: Eric Burger, Research Professor of Computer Science, Georgetown University and Director, Security and Software Engineering Research Center at Georgetown University; David Farber, Adjunct Professor of Internet Studies, Carnegie Mellon University; Jon Peterson, Distinguished Fellow, Neustar; Don Parente, Director, Technology Strategy – Chief Architect, AT&T

View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6crSDNJV43U

PANEL 2: Opportunities for Enhanced Consumer Experience in an All-IP World
Speakers: Larry Downes, Project Director, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy; Brian Fontes, CEO, National Emergency Number Association; Debra Berlyn, President, Consumer Policy Solutions; Patrick Brogan, Vice President of Industry Analysis, USTelecom; Eric Burger, Research Professor of Computer Science, Georgetown University and Director, Security and Software Engineering Research Center at Georgetown University; Dan Berninger, Founder, VCXC

View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/fc-aKR4gA88

3:28 pm on July 7, 2014 · blair levin (9), cbpp (1), georgetown (7), itif (9), larry downes (3)

VIDEO: The Internet and Communications Regulation: A Policy and Technology Symposium @GeorgetownCBPP

July 7, 2014 by isoc-ny

On June 10 2014 the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy hosted “The Internet and Communications Regulation: A Policy and Technology Symposium,” a panel to discuss the technical and economic background of current issues related to the Internet. Speakers: Blair Levin, Communications and Society Fellow, The Aspen Institute; Patrick Gilmore, Chief Technology Officer, Markley Group; Brent Olson, Vice President of Public Policy, AT&T; Robert D. Atkinson, President, The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation; Jeffrey Campbell, Vice President, Cisco Government Affairs; with moderation by Larry Downes, Senior Industry and Innovation Fellow and Project Director, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy. The group discussed the technical and economic background of the internet, since knowing how and why the internet works is crucial to gaining an understanding of current issues and policy options. Video is below:

View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/bmidMhequwQ
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/23IuxFyvV6Xr/
Summary: http://cbpp.georgetown.edu/2014/07/03/technical-economic-background-internet

1:55 pm on February 11, 2011 · broadband (121), citi (45), georgetown (7), NBP (17)

THE NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN: One Year Later – DC 3/18 #broadband

February 11, 2011 by isoc-ny

The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) and Georgetown University’s Communication Culture and Technology Program will present a one day confrence THE NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN: One Year Later at Georgetown University in Washington, DC on Friday, March 18. Details as to the agenda and location will be available soon. Please save the date.

The FCC’s National Broadband Plan was released on March 16, 2010. It laid out a number of ambitious long-term goals, including that 100 million US households would have affordable access to 100mbps broadband service within a decade and that the US should be the world leader on mobile broadband innovation with the fastest and most extensive wireless networks of any nation. After a year, is the Plan “on track”? What is the state of broadband in America in 2011? What has been accomplished and what are the major next steps in the implementation of the Plan? Have any of the facts, circumstances and analyses that underlie the NBP changed in such a way that the Plan itself needs to be amended? How will the Plan be administered and updated over the next decade?