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Dean Garfield on the Huffington Post
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the tech sector, events hosted by the Council and other related news.
AFFIRMS IT Visionary Series June 23, 2011 ITI CEO Dean Garfield and John Thompson, Chairman of the Board, Symantec, discuss the importance of having a global perspective as a business leader at AFFIRMS IT Visionary Series event.
White House Briefing with the Information Technology Industry Council March 30, 2011
The White House hosts a briefing with the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), the major advocacy organization for the information and communications technology industry.
Dean Garfield, President & CEO, ITI, Intro at a Congressional Trade Briefing
March 28, 2011
C-Span The Communicators December 25th, 2010
On the Communicators, Gigi Sohn of the consumer group Public Knowledge and Dean Garfield of the Information Technology Industry Council give their perspectives on the FCC’s adoption of new “net neutrality” rules. The rules would keep Internet Service Providers from blocking or slowing content that goes over the Internet. Public Knowledge was disappointed with the decision saying that stronger protections were needed. ITI, which represents companies such as Ebay, Apple and Google, praised the rules saying they provide regulatory certainty for their members.
NBC Nightly News
March 4, 2011
Many foreigners come the United States, get educated, and want to stay, but can’t. How can the America take advantage of their potential while our country's current Immigration laws are blocking this economic avenue? NBC’s Tom Brokaw reports.
C-Span AFFIRMS IT Visionary Series
October 19, 2010
ITI CEO Dean Garfield and John Chamber’s CEO of Cisco Systems, discuss the importance of creating strong business and government partnerships at AFFIRMS IT Visionary Series event.
Canadian Broadcasting Centre (CBC) Lang and O’Leary Exchange August 18, 2010
Rick Goss, ITI's Vice President for Environment and Sustainability discusses the high tech industry's perspective around mining conflict minerals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Bloomberg Garfield Says FCC Broadband Plan to Help U.S. Compete March 16, 2010
Dean Garfield, chief executive officer of the Information Technology Industry Council, talks with Bloomberg's Lori Rothman and Mark Crumpton about the U.S. plan to expand Internet service. The Federal Communications Commission sent the plan to Congress today, ahead of the schedule set by lawmakers. It calls for "the fastest and most extensive wireless networks" of any nation by 2020, to ensure wider service and spur competition with cable and telephone companies.
What is Tax Deferral?
The Obama Administration is proposing to raise more than $100 billion from American multinational corporations by limiting in some way the ability of U.S. companies to defer tax on profits earned abroad. The premise behind the proposal is that by raising the taxes paid on the foreign profits of U.S. companies earned abroad, the companies will somehow have more incentive to locate their operations here in the United States.
