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Energy Policy in the Network Age Briefing
1pm EDT / 10am PDT (60min)
Thursday, October 22
Permalink to episode recording:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Supernova/2009/10/22/Scott-Blake-Harris-on-Energy-Policy-in-the-Network-Age
This week’s Supernova Network Age Briefing featured Scott Blake Harris, General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Energy. We spoke first-hand about topics as far ranging as current “Smart Grid” efforts, how technology is changing our thinking about carbon sequestration and nuclear energy, and how cybersecurity intersects with our country’s energy policy.
About our guest: Scott Blake Harris is the General Counsel of the Department of Energy. He was nominated for the position by President Barack Obama in March, and was confirmed by the United States Senate in May, 2009. Mr. Harris has practiced… Read More
Deloitte, under the leadership of John Hagel III and John Seely Brown, earlier this year released what I believe is a landmark study: The 2009 Shift Index. “Measuring the forces of long-term change,” this work uncovers a new way to think about shifts in business and society and absorb them to maximum benefit for the organization. What’s more, the study illuminates the pressing need for business leaders to alter the way people interact inside the organization as well as with stakeholders, and it outlines a better way to measure performance. Beyond product and service, the distinguishing characteristic of corporate output will be the way the knowledge of its people is… Read More
Free Press is a public interest group that works on communications issues, and Ben Scott is the Policy Director as well as co-editor of the books Our Unfree Press and The Future of Media.
In this Supernova Hub interview, Ben discusses some of the issues on which Free Press focuses, including Network Neutrality and the National Broadband Strategy.
We thank Ben and Free Press for spending time with us at the Mixer.
At the Supernova Washington DC mixer I interviewed Gigi Sohn of Public Knowledge, which is a DC-based non-profit advocacy firm that represents user’s rights in many legal areas. Gigi discusses Balanced Copyright, and also explains the topic of Network Neutrality in a way that a non-techie or lay-person can easily understand.
Gigi also gives her perspective on the trend towards Open Government, and what it means for citizens. We look forward to her participation on the Supernova Hub.
Wendy Seltzer, a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center, joined me at the Supernova DC Mixer to discuss a number of subjects relevant to how law impacts the Network Age. She notes how technology innovation has brought control out to the user at the edges of the networks, and how intellectual property rules sometimes can stifle it. Wendy discusses patents and how they affect innovation and progress.
She also discusses the Chilling Effects Project, a clearinghouse for cease and diciest orders people receive that the project posts to help people understand their rights online. We discuss how such takedown notices can get sent, and what a user might do about it…. Read More
Many-time Supernova attendee and co-founder of the Personal Democracy Forum Andrew Rasiej does a recap of this years PDF Conference with Howard Greenstein, and talks about how technology is changing and influencing politics. He discusses CIO of the White House Vivik Kundra’s announcement at the conference of the IT Dashboard on Federal spending at Data.gov.
He states that the new tools and networks allow “organized minorities to be more effective than disorganized majorities” and this will change some very major power structures in the political landscape. He also talks about the way the rise of citizen journalism is helping to replace the holes in coverage left by ailing mainstream media outlets.
There is additional… Read More
The United States is now providing a dashboard of federal IT spending, via a new site just made available at http://www.usaspending.gov. According to the site:
“The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Transparency Act) requires a single searchable website, accessible by the public for free that includes for each Federal award:
1. the name of the entity receiving the award;
2. the amount of the award;
3. information on the award including transaction type, funding agency, etc;
4. the location of the entity receiving the award;
5. a unique identifier of the entity receiving the award.
USAspending.gov, a re-launch of www.fedspending.org, provides this information to the public, as collected from federal… Read More
Today at the Personal Democracy Forum event, US CIO Vivek Kundra announced the first “IT Dashboard” for manipulating data about how US taxpayer’s dollars are spent. (Good coverage at the NY Observer.) After Kundra and new media director of the White House Macon Phillips left the PDF stage, Beth Noveck, Deputy US CTO for the Open Government initiative spoke with PDF co-founder Andrew Rasiej about her project. Noveck, the author of Wiki Government, has the rare opportunity of proposing a major change in public policy in a book and implementing it just months later. Using wiki-like collaborative tools like Mixed Ink and Idea Scale, her office is putting “we the people” into the… Read More
The US Senate has finally confirmed Julius Genachowski as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and Larry Strickling as head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of the Department of Commerce. Five months after President Obama’s inauguration, the United States finally has its two leading officials on communications policy. And not a moment too soon.
I’ve had the good fortune to know Julius and Larry for nearly fifteen years, since my days at the FCC during the Clinton Administration. I worked with both of them on the Obama campaign’s technology advisory group, and on the Transition Team prior to Inauguration. They are both extremely capable, dedicated, and thoughtful. And they… Read More
The great thing about being a consultant is wearing lots of hats. I’m working with the Supernova team again this year, and David Weinberger recently engaged me to help him research his upcoming business book on how networks are changing the nature of expertise. Dovetails nicely with Supernova’s 2009 topic “Change Networks” doesn’t it? I decided to interview David about the launch of the Tenth Anniversary Edition of the Cluetrain Manifesto, the book he co-authored with Rick Levine, Chris Locke and Doc Searls.
Iz: We’re coming around to the 10th anniversary of the publishing of the Cluetrain Manifesto. Does it seem like it’s been that long already?
DW: Of course not. Nothing does. When I… Read More
