Event Archives: 2012

Inequality has been a long-standard feature of American society, but financial catastrophe and a sluggish recovery raised its profile. Occupy Wall Street protesters and others have argued that public policies contributed to rising inequality of income and wealth.

In coordination with New America’s Open Technology Institute, Public Knowledge, and the Rutgers School of Law | Camden: Institute for Information Policy & Law.

Please join us for engaging panels discussing the public interest in wireless and broadband.

On Twitter? Join the conversation with the hashtag #bcast2bb.

Kenya’s financial market has caught the world’s attention. The rise of mobile money in Kenya has become the interest of financial inclusion experts, the excitement of mobile network operators, and an opportunity for financial institutions to rethink their products and services. However, the data behind this transformation and the impact on financial inclusion efforts are often much less examined and understood.

Science and technology in America have been guided by the same set of ideas for more than half a century. The conventional wisdom is that if we feed more money and more scientists into our existing “knowledge enterprise” complex, society will derive proportionately more benefits. In the face of the global economic downturn, political disarray at the national level, and protracted challenges to the nation’s public health, environmental quality, industrial base, and energy system, this simplistic assumption is long overdue for a reckoning.