Voting accessibility for disabled person. It concluded with a question and answer session with the commissioners. This is an hour and a half. Good afternoon, everyone. I want to thank you all for coming back to the exciting panel of accessibility. Im tom hicks, vice chair of the electrics commission. And on my left you will see a panel, and to my left is coming, and the other left is also coming. So i will introduce you to folks who are here. Virginia so, im going to introduce the folks who are here [ laughter ] so, to my left, virginia atkinson is the senior accessibility and accessible inclusion specialist at the National Foundation for Electoral Systems, and she has more than a decade of experience work on disability rights and governance issues. And she provides Technical Assistance and training to Civil Society, organization and election management bodies. She is also the lead author of the manual equal access, how the include persons with disabilities in elections and political p
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Used the tactic in past conflict. He spoke at the think tank new america in washington dc. This is one hour and a half. Now let me introduce fred. Perhaps his most important distinction i would say is that he worked previously as an american fellow but he has done one or two other things in his illustrious career. He is the National Security columnist and author of four books the most recent book which i think is here to tell us and has at least gone over with this new book that some one might not necessarily imagine. Fred is a Pulitzer Prize journalist back in his days at the boston globe and i am very pleased to be able to host him here today. On the format, shortly we will allow fred to give him a minute to describe the book and tell us about it what is in it and then i will take the opportunity to have a conversation, dig into a little more and explore some of the themes and what we might conclude that. Then i will open it up to the floor to give you the opportunity to ask fred som
Of four books, the new book as some people might imagine. A surprise winning journalist with his days at the boston globe. In a while he s will give a few minutes describing the book and whats in it. Some of the themes and what we might contribute from that and then i will open up to the floor give you the opportunity to ask some questions and we will wrap upqu at 1 45. [applause] ing didnt know what the title s going to be for a while but how long the history is it because most people think that it started with the outskirts of shanghai and no but now in prace goes back all the way to the dawn of the internet itself. This was the network where they would talk with one another in their Computer Program an into there was a computer pioneer who was also on the Scientific Advisory board and wrote a paper that has been declassified since but he said heres the problem once you have accessed from multiple locations. He wont be able to keep secrets anymore. When i was doing my research i talk
On tactical Public Private innovation collaboration, a number of the public and private sector issues on cybersecurity. Want to also echo frank and thank our sponsors for this event, north rup grumened, and Marcus Edwards who has been our sort of partner in getting this organizes for the past few months. In addition to his day job, hes also a doctor of engineering student here at George Washington university. I dont know how he finds time to do both of those things, but thanks, marcus for all of your work on this todays conference. Ill briefly introduce the panel that we have before us, and then well go right into a discussion with some time at the end of the 50 minutes for audience questions. First, immediately to my left, your right, scott aaronson, executive director for security and Business Continuity at the Edison Electric institute. Hes been there since 2009, working in a variety of roles before getting his current position. Before that, worked on the hill for congressman lantos