The Policy Challenges of Technological Advancement

Technologies are rapidly advancing in many of the areas that National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) has identified as grand challenges. As these technologies advance, however, they do of course create new policy challenges of their own. Policy makers need to understand emerging technologies and the regulatory challenges they bring with them.

On Friday, July 15th from 10 AM - 11:30 AM EDT, the NAPA hosts Jeremy Epstein, Lead Program Officer, Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace, National Science Foundation Chair, US Technology Policy Committee, Association for Computing Machinery; Bobbie Stempfley, Vice President and Business Unit Security Officer at Dell Technologies Senior fellow for the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative; Daniel Weitzner, 3Com Founders Principal Research Scientist chair at MIT Founding Director, MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative; and James Hendler, Tetherless World Chair of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences Chair, Global Technology Policy Council, Association for Computing Machinery.

This expert panel will look at four of the challenges from the policy viewpoint: Protection of Election Integrity, Advancing the National Interest in a changing global context, Ensuring data security and privacy rights, and Making government AI ready.