Track: IPTComm Keynote |
| Technology Policy During a Pandemic: Possibilities and Limits |
| Technology discussions during the COVID-19 pandemic both accelerated and intensified existing discussions. Suddenly, privacy was no longer just about what YouTube video you watched, but whether you had a dreadful disease and whether the same privacy trade-offs still made sense. Evergreen topics like the decade-long attempt to provide broadband internet access to everybody suddenly looked much more urgent when the homework gap turned into the home school gap and the "office" of Dr. Google became the telehealth clinic and work-from-home became the office. Even as the pandemic is likely far from over, we can draw a number of lessons for policy issues and how computer scientists (and builders of real-time communication systems) can help countries weather both the health and the economic crisis. For example, e-government infrastructure and digital identity have become much more urgent. There are new opportunities for research, for service and for political engagement by computer scientists. The talk will discuss issues and challenges these from the perspective of having served in a Congressional office during the pandemic. |
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| Schulzrinne-Technology-Policy.pdf |