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March 12, 2013This morning, many media accounts look at remarks from Tom Donilon, the President's National Security Advisor, on the challenges facing the U.S. relationships with many Asian nations. Among the topics he covered: the priority of the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks and the ongoing dialogue with China on cybersecurity. For the full context, you can read Donilon's remarks to the Asia Society in New [...] -
February 13, 2013The President’s nominee to be the next U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Jack Lew, testified at the Senate Finance Committee today and faced questions from Democratic and Republican Senators on the importance of corporate tax reform to job creation. (You can watch the archived hearing on the committee’s site.) Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., set the tone with his opening statement, underscoring that the [...]
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February 01, 2013With the greatest “collection of brainpower we’ve had under this roof in a long time,” President Obama at the White House today bestowed the nation’s highest honors for invention and discovery – the National Medals of Science and the National Medals of Technology and Innovation – on an incredibly talented group of men and women. The President noted that the accomplishments of these women and men are [...]
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January 23, 2013At his confirmation hearing today to become the next U.S. Secretary of State, Senator John Kerry, D-Mass., was asked about cybersecurity. Here’s what he had to say in his question-and-answer round with Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill., at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Senator Durbin: I think you may have attended the briefing, the classified briefing for members of the Senate, Democrats [...]
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In his Inaugural Address today, President Obama combined poetry and prose as he spoke about the priorities that he will bring to his second term in office. For many of these issues, the technology sector has put forward ideas with backing from both Democratic and Republican Members of Congress. The challenge consistently has been building broader support to move policies from good proposals to new [...]
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November 15, 2012 by View all posts by this authorAt 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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Each year, ITI honors one board member whose efforts transcend regular responsibilities to the organization with the Gary P. Fazzino Award for Innovation Excellence. The award recognizes “demonstrated and consistent leadership and exemplary service in promoting innovation and technology.” This year, we presented the award to Tim Regan, Senior Vice President of Corning, Incorporated, and the ITI Board [...]
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October 21, 2012 by View all posts by this authorThe final presidential debate starts tonight at 9 p.m. ET and will focus on global issues. Given that topic, people may be tempted to change the channel. But doing so would ignore the fact that our world today is more intertwined than ever before. 95 percent of the world’s population lives outside the United States, and when people in China buy an iPhone or open an AOL account, those decisions impact [...]
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October 13, 2012 by View all posts by this authorTwo debates are in the books, and the candidates for president and vice president have yet to put forward any significant details on how they would accelerate job creation and lasting economic strength across the country. We understand that the men elected in November to lead our government have to be able to focus on myriad issues and demonstrate their knowledge and approach to a wide spectrum of [...]
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Today in the Detroit News, ITI President & CEO Dean Garfield has an op-ed focused on the corporate tax debate -- looking at the areas that President Obama and Governor Romney agree on tax reform and the bipartisan support that is growing for a competitive, market-based system. And he compared those cooperative discussions to the partisan show that claimed to be a Senate hearing last month, chaired [...]
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