The Miraculous Cell Phone
As the economy emerges from the Great Recession, it is hard to deny that times are still tough for many Americans. Some advocates have attributed difficulties to rising basic costs such as health care...
View ArticleFlorida’s Cell Phone Tax Cut Could Help Reduce the Digital Divide
Governor Rick Scott (R-FL) is asking the Florida legislature to cut $470 million in taxes that the state collects from residents on their cell phone, satellite, and television bills. This proposal to...
View ArticleThe Culture Addict Dream Conference
Each year, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) hosts a large conference at the Newseum dedicated to highlighting what is new in creativity, content, and technology around the world. At the...
View ArticleHigh-Growth Entrepreneurship for Development: Report of a Roundtable with...
Policymakers around the world have increasingly come to realize that entrepreneurship, particularly high-growth entrepreneurship (HGE), is critical for economic development in nations at all levels of...
View ArticleThe Internet Is not (Fully) Open, nor Should It Be
To listen to the debate about Internet governance, the world faces a Manichean choice between an open Internet—where everyone is free to share any information they wish—and a closed one, where...
View ArticleThe True Damages of Online Piracy? It’s Hard to Measure
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that online piracy is detrimental to content creators, including in the film and music industries. However, academics studying the effects appear to be...
View ArticleAssessing the Costs of a More “Closed” Internet
I had the pleasure of moderating a panel at a very interesting and informative OECD workshop this week in Washington, DC, on how to better measure the benefits of the open Internet and the costs of...
View ArticleFrance Demands Right to Censor the Global Internet
In 2014, Europe’s highest court ruled that Europeans have the ability to request that search engines remove links from queries associated with their names if those results are irrelevant, incorrect, or...
View ArticleTransatlantic Digital Cooperation Will Require Hard Debates
As the global Internet economy evolves and becomes more interconnected, cross-border policy tensions are rising, as is the need to resolve these tensions and conflicts in ways that continue to spur...
View ArticleWhat Can Contact Lens Prices Teach About Telehealth Regulation?
Rising health-care costs present a large burden to future Americans. Telehealth and e-commerce can keep rising health-care costs in check and increase the quality of care and the patient experience....
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