The Berkman Center at Harvard University and Stanford Law School are
pleased to announce a new initiative in which we invite the world to
submit their ‘Ideas for a Better Internet.’ We are seeking out brief
proposals from anyone with ideas as to how to improve the Internet.
Students at Harvard and Stanford will work through early next year to
implement the ideas selected. Interested parties should submit their
ideas at http://bit.ly/i4bicfp by Friday, April 15. Please spread the
word far and wide, and follow us on Twitter at
http://twitter.com/Ideas4BetterNet.
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Eric Schmidt: “Laws Are Written by Lobbyists” #innovation
In a February 2010 Washington Post Op-Ed Google CEO Eric Schmidt called on US Government to recognize bottom-up solutions to the “innovation deficit“.
Now this week, warming to his theme, he criticized the policy making process. “”The average American doesn’t realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists” to protect incumbent interests, he said at the Washington Ideas Forum. “It’s shocking how the system actually works.”