Subject: Digital Policy: DC Event & Book Publication
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 11:47:48 -0500
Message-Id: <v02130500b0ff99666d45@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 11:47:48 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: david@ninch.org (David Green) Subject: Digital Policy: DC Event & Book Publication
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
February 5, 1998
Below is an announcement from the Cato Institute of a "book forum" this
Friday, Feb 6, celebrating and examining the co-publication by the Cato
institute and the Brookings Institution of a new book on policy
considerations.
David Green
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GOING DIGITAL!: A GUIDE TO POLICY IN THE DIGITAL AGE
BOOK FORUM National Press Club
Conference Room, 529 14th Street, N.W.
<http://www.cato.org/events/calendar.html>
February 6, Friday, 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.:
"Going Digital!: A Guide to Policy in the Digital Age," featuring the
authors Robert E. Litan, Director, Economic Studies, Brookings
Institution and William A. Niskanen, Chairman, Cato Institute.
Comments by Ira Magaziner, Senior Advisor, Policy Development, The
White House.
New technologies have brought us to the dawn of a virtual revolution.
A new book published jointly by the Cato Institute and the Brookings
Institution--a first time collaboration between these two
institutions--brings to the attention of a wide audience some of the
major public policy issues presented by the current "digital
revolution."
"Going Digital!: A Guide to Policy in the Digital Age," outlines in
brief, simple, and clear prose for non-technical audiences such issues
as the implications of the digital age for the workplace, privacy,
taxation, protection of intellectual property, and data security and
encryption.
It also examines the new responsibilities that government must shoulder
in coping with these technologies, such as the adoption of a legal
institutional infrastructure appropriate to the digital age. Perhaps
most importantly, the book explores the ways in which government must
shrink its regulatory domain and eliminate barriers to electronic trade
and commerce.
--Cato Institute
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