Book and interesting conversation. Thank you very much. We are e calls, tweets and emails live from noon till three pm eastern. Go to book tv. Org for. Org for the complete weekend schedule. Welcome come everybody. I am the cofounder of civic hall. And briefly typical i should say is we have been here now almost two years. S. It grew out of an annual conference we do call personal Democracy Forum focused on how technology is changing politics and government that weve been doing since 2004, which both of our guests if we travel similar path. Two years ago we opened a yearround gathering point for the same people and conversations focused on how to hack can be used for the public good. It is a pleasure to welcome everybody here. Let me say im excited for theme chance to get into this conversation about rules for revolutionaries how big organizing can changeies and everything because we are living in a very unusual time. It isnt just a moment after the election. We are living in an age or
Welcome everybody. I am the co founder and just briefly we have been here now almost two years. It grew out of an annual conference that we do call personal Democracy Forum which is focused on how technology is changing government and we been doing it since 2004. We have traveled similar paths for a long time. Two years ago we opened this to be a yearround gathering point for the people in conversations focused on civic tech. How tech can be used for the public good. Its a pleasure to welcome everybody here. Let me just say i am really excited for the chance to get into this conversation about rules revolutionaries and how big organizing can change everything. We are living in a very unusual time. It isnt just the moment after the election. We are living in an age where participation in politics is possible at the scale of millions. Its a very confusing thing to experience and a lot of us are right in the middle of that moment now, asking what why do, and the confusion comes from the f
An operators standpoint, like i said, whether talking about Natural Disaster or terrorist attack, your defenses or your Safety Systems have be to able to handle all of them. U. S. Regulators trying them. Euatom has done a lot on that. They conducted stress tests. Its supposed to stress the reactor, simulate it stress the rea rea reactor, not result in release or radiation. Of course euatomorrow has all of the rebustness built in, if an operator fails that test, for political pressure to put on them online with requirement of the stress test but it has not happened. But if someone failed they could be brought to the European Court of justice and litigated against. And i assume if youre brought to the court of justice, that mean yours reactor has to shut down. Again, northeast asia, im not sure how you would put in that robust a system. Youre go back to the domestic regulator to make sure they do that. But certainly, then in this type of dialogue, in the four i mentioned, hopefully those
The Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee hosted a discussion about the National Security agencys Surveillance Programs. It included Stewart Baker and advocates of an open internet. They considered the affects of nsa surveillance on Cloud Computing and the development on new technologies. This is an hour and 15 minutes. A little housekeeping item. Tim is not here today so he asked me to make sure you all know im here as my capacity. I am with the American Enterprise institute. I am not holding any of their opinions and the people here will state whether they are stating the opinion of themselves or the organization. This is really not meant to be a technical debate. Its a debate of where are we a year after the snowden revelations and what weve learned. And im just going to ask each one of our panelists who are really well written and well spoken on this topic to give a couple key points of their point of view. Be thinking about questions. So im going to start with Stewart B
In a way that i think impacts human rights. One of our biggest concerns about data localization presnowden is many of these countries were doing this not because they were trying to protect themselves against the big, bad americans but because they wanted to exert greater control over Internet Data and internet speech. We have now given them a great deal of ammunition on that. Similarly, even prior to the snowden revelations, there was a big debate over the role of the u. S. In internet governments. And what should the future of internet governance be . Should it be to be multistakeholder model that involves governments and Civil Society but many are concerned is dominated by the u. S. . Or should it be the realm of governments and intergovernmental process . We had countries like china and russia and zarb pushing very hard to increase the saudi arabia pushing hard to increase the role of governments in the global internetization of the internet. That trend consistented presnowden. How