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Using Digital Skills for Careers in Government

A discussion with Alec Ross, Senior Adviser, Innovation in the Office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Moderated by Susan Crawford, Visiting Stanton Professor. Co-sponsored by Tech{for}Change.

  1. Some background on our speaker and moderator:
  2. Kennedy School student group is co-sponsoring:
  3. Here is Alec discussing the future of diplomacy, cybersecurity, and non-state actors during a recent visit to the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School.
  4. Looking forward to hearing what @AlecJRoss has to say about digital careers! @ShorensteinCtr @scrawford
  5. Shift in power from hierarchies to citizens and networks of citizens. Made possible by connection tech ~@AlecJRoss @ShorensteinCtr
  6. Massive shift in geopolitical power from hierarchies to citizens and networks of citizens, exemplified by iCow. #alecross @AlecJRoss
  7. Govt's by their nature concentrate on management & control of change. Connectivity degrades the level of control from the state. #alecross
  8. @alecjross: iCow typifies the shifts in geopolitical power technology is enabling today @shorensteinctr #hks
  9. Gov't can get very overwhelmed by the loss of power that comes from the shift allowed by connectivity ~@AlecJRoss #hks
  10. Saying the revolutions were "facebk revolutions" is oversimplified, but the "loss of control over the info enviro" is real ~@alecjRoss #hks
  11. @alecjross is here breaking it all down at #harvard "control freaks are going to have trouble in the 21st century." Uh oh. I'm in trouble.
  12. .@AlecJRoss "Generations of public servants...are completely unequipped to deal with the loss of control" Here's where #HKS students come in
  13. Alec Ross: intellectual property: gov't doesn't have capabilities to fix - HKS students have better change of engineering solutions #SOPA
  14. Here at talk by @alecjross. He's outlining 5 grand challenges for internet policy. 1 - Intellectual property
  15. challenges next gen gov must tackle: #1 protecting intellectual property w/o 'breaking the internet.' -@AlecJRoss #hks @shorensteinctr
  16. 2. Surveillance: "don't think people realise power of networked tech and what that means for all of us." - @alecjross
  17. #2 in the face of increasingly sophisticated surveillance tech, how do you craft policy? -@AlecJRoss @shorensteinctr #hks
  18. challenges next gen gov must tackle: #2 the changing face of surveillance. The Scifi future tech is here.' -@AlecJRoss #hks @shorensteinctr
  19. #3 cyberspace as next frontier of war (not just air, land, space) @AlecJRoss @shorensteinctr #hks
  20. #4 Radically different norms on privacy. What are implications? For policy? @AlecJRoss @shorensteinctr #hks
  21. Listening to @alecjross - says biggest future challenges are intell property, surveillance, cyberwar, privacy, inclusive econ growth #hks

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