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Today, the House of Representatives renewed its work on cybersecurity with a series of votes on bipartisan proposals to enhance and improve U.S. cyber defenses. At the heart of this debate is the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), offered by the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House Intelligence Committee -- Chairman Mike Rogers of Michigan and Ranking Member C.A. Dutch [...]
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Each day, seemingly, there’s another attention-grabbing news story about a threat to the U.S. national security by a rogue group or foreign government attempting to hack their way into state secrets. Without question, the dangers from these groups are real, and have been increasing. But the headlines fail to account for the group most threatened by cyber threats and intrusions, namely you and me. [...]
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Proponents of a more activist, broader-reaching International Telecommunication Union (ITU) are continuing their campaign to take that international body into inappropriate territory. As you recall, there were multiple proposals tabled at last December’s World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) that addressed an array of topics, including Internet governance, spam, and standardization [...]
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Less than a month removed from the announcement by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that his nation would seek a seat at the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiating table, the Obama Administration has given its approval to the move. Adding Japan to the TPP represents a global economic game-changer. Word came this morning from Acting USTR Demetrios Marantis… “[W]e are pleased to welcome Japan’s [...]
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Dateline Beijing: Spending this week in Beijing -- participating in the U.S.-China Internet Industry Forum, meeting with government and industry officials from both countries, talking with Chinese entrepreneurs and tech investors -- has given me fresh perspective on how to address the challenges facing both countries, especially as it relates to technology issues. I’m not suggesting there is a magic [...]
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There is one word that shows up consistently in President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget: innovation. We see it in the descriptions of almost every federal agency’s spending blueprint. (In fact, the word “innovation” shows up 107 times in the 244-page budget.) The investments that the president proposes in research and development (R&D), in scientific exploration, in cutting-edge education initiatives, [...]
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Under a beautiful blue sky in the Rose Garden this morning, President Obama laid out the three key questions that drove the priorities in his just-released Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 budget: “How do we make America a magnet for new jobs? How do we give our workers the skills they need to do those jobs? And how do we make sure that hard work leads to a decent living?” Some of the key initiatives put forward [...]
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This blog was originally posted on the CA Technologies Corporate Blog: Perspectives. I’m very proud to announce that CA Technologies is a signatory of the BICEP Climate Declaration, launched today in Washington, DC. We have talked about BICEP previously on this blog, and the Climate Declaration is an example of how the organization is mobilizing business leadership to promote a sustainable world. [...]
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Dateline Beijing: The United States and China have more to gain from cooperation and dialogue than they do through confrontation and diatribes. That was the overarching message that ITI’s Dean Garfield brought today to the 7th Annual U.S.-China Internet Industry Forum being held here in Beijing. Dean focused his keynote remarks at the conference on a number of critical issues facing the tech community [...]
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Dateline Beijing: Each day, it seems headlines in China and the United States raise the temperature on rhetoric and lower the opportunity for dialogue. Tensions are higher than they should be, and much is at stake. In Beijing this week, ITI hopes to reverse that trend and open new channels of communications with Chinese government leaders and industry officials. ITI CEO & President Dean Garfield and [...]
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