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On Friday, I had the great pleasure of sitting in on the congressional briefing on “Data Center Energy Efficiency” that ITI hosted with Representative Anna Eshoo (D-Ca). As ITI’s Dean Garfield noted in introducing her, Representative Eshoo “was doing data center efficiency before data centers were cool.” Indeed, Eshoo and ITI worked on the 2005 bill that she and Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Mi) [...]
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At long last, “WCIT-12” is upon us. Delegates to the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications, commonly referred to simply as “WCIT,” are boarding flights for a two-week sojourn to the cosmopolitan city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The forecast is unsurprisingly for warm, sunny days, but that may well be the only accurate forecasting we can do. The outcome of the confab, [...]
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This Friday, the House of Representatives will take up Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith’s “STEM Jobs Act” - legislation vital to ensure we have the skilled workforce we need now and in the future to help grow our economy and create new innovative businesses and high-skilled jobs.. Our country’s innovative potential depends on highly skilled talent, including foreign-born Masters and PhD science, technology, [...]
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Now that the dust has settled on a bruising election season, we at ITI would like to formally congratulate all the newly elected members of the Class of 2012. With tax reform a key priority for the continued growth of the tech sector and the revitalization of the U.S. economy, we are looking forward to working with these freshman members of the House and Senate, along with those re-elected and currently [...]
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The 113th Congress is still more than a month away, but the planning and tablesetting has begun for what could be one of the most significant sessions of Congress for the tech industry ever. A major tax overhaul, high-skilled workforce and education reform, cybersecurity, privacy, and market access are just some of the issues Congress is expected to consider in 2013, and all of those issues are certain [...]
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Today, the tech industry celebrates the successful House passage of the Russia PNTR legislation. We commend the House for acting in a strong bipartisan fashion to put the needs of American businesses and workers first. The final vote tally was 365-43. Now it’s the Senate’s turn. Majority Leader Reid has stated that passing Russia PNTR is on his agenda for the lame duck session of congress. Let’s [...]
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DESSC is proud of all of our member’s green efforts, but today we want to applaud the six DESSC members that made it onto Newsweek’s 2012 Greenest American Companies list. Now in its fourth year, these rankings are compiled after analysis by multiple environmental research organizations. CA Technologies cut back on commuting and pollution by allowing 30 percent of its workforce to work from home. [...]
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Next week, President Obama will leave Washington for a three-nation trip to Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia. Media reports ahead of the trip note that Thailand is likely to announce its interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations which have been gaining momentum. While in Cambodia, the President will participate in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meetings [...]
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At ITI, we pride ourselves in the quality of our work. Our ethos is reflected in our brand: “Innovation. Insight. Influence.” We strive to match our members’ breakthrough innovations with cutting-edge approaches to help people and governments better understand our members and the work they do in Washington, D.C., and in key markets and capitals around the world. And, today, two of our top advocates [...]
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Time of death: 6:11p.m. After a second failed cloture vote on the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 sponsored by Senators Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared, “Cybersecurity is dead for this Congress.” Despite interest from both sides of the aisle to address the issue of cybersecurity, there simply was not enough bipartisan support for the Cybersecurity [...]
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