How Tech Becomes Law uncovers insights from leaders in government, business, journalism, and academia to highlight how technology can be built in the public interest. Interviewees discuss how technology can move society forward, what role they play in shaping this, and how students and young professionals can impact the path forward.
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How Tech Becomes Law uncovers insights from leaders in government, business, journalism, and academia to highlight how technology can be built in the public interest. Interviewees discuss how technology can move society forward, what role they play in shaping this, and how students and young professionals can impact the path forward.
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July 13, 2022
15. Fostering innovation in America with Megan Mahle at the Department of Homeland Security
<p>Megan Mahle walks us through how she invests in American innovation from the lens of Department of Homeland Security. Through programs like the Small Business Innovation Research grant and the Silicon Valley Innovation Program, DHS enables startups to build new technologies that are useful both for security and commercial purposes.</p> <p>Check out the Homeland Security Startup Studio CONVERGE event at: https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/hsss-22-converge</p> <p>Guest bio:</p> <p>Megan Mahle is the Director of Industry Partnerships at DHS S&T. The role of the Industry Partnerships Division is to lead the formation and sustainment of internal and external partnerships across research and development (R&D) communities. These efforts will enable joint R&D and result in stronger connections with developer and user communities. Industry Partnerships is responsible for innovation mechanisms, such as Small Business Innovation Research, Silicon Valley Innovation Program, Prize Authority, and Broad Agency Announcements, and Post-R&D activities associated with technology transfer and commercialization.</p> <p>Ms. Mahle has been at S&T since February 2008 serving in several positions, including as the S&T Cyber Security Division (CSD) Business Operations Manager, CSD Program Manager for the Law Enforcement Support portfolio, including the anonymous networks and currencies, cybersecurity forensics and insider threat projects, and program support contractor for the Command, Control and Interoperability Division. Ms. Mahle holds a bachelor’s degree from Mary Washington College and a master’s degree from Catholic University.</p> <p>About the podcast:</p> <p>How Tech Becomes Law is a weekly public interest tech podcast about technology, public policy, and career advice. We are your co-hosts, Jinyan Zang and Dhruv Gupta. Each episode uncovers insights from leaders in government, business, journalism, and academia to highlight how technology can be built in the public interest. Interviewees discuss how technology can move society forward, what role they play in shaping this, and how students and young professionals can impact the path forward.</p> <p>We are supported by the <a href="https://techlab.org/"><u>Public Interest Tech Lab</u></a>. Listen to us on your podcast platform of choice. You can find us online at <a href="https://www.howtechbecomeslaw.org/"><u>howtechbecomeslaw.org</u></a> and on social media channels @techbecomeslaw.</p>
March 16, 2022
14. Helping young voters be heard with Jahnavi Rao from New Voters
<p>How can we ensure the future of this country is determined by those who'll have to live in it? We speak with Jahnavi Rao, founder of New Voters, which is a non-profit that has helped over 50,000 high school students register to vote across the nation. Jahnavi discusses her work in managing a nationwide, distributed team of volunteers who help students register and make a difference in their high school communities. Jahnavi notes how voting has begun to be politicized, although younger voters on both sides of the aisle are still excited to have their voice heard. Jahnavi talks about her personal experiences in helping students vote, offers advice on her own career, and also discusses the vaccine outreach New Voters conducted over the past year. Listen in to be inspired by the work that she and her team are doing to ensure that young voters feel heard and empowered in an ever-changing world.</p> <p>Guest bio:</p> <p>Following the 2016 election, Jahnavi founded New Voters as a club at her high school, where she registered over 85% of her class to vote and mobilized her peers while she herself was too young to vote.</p> <p>Since then, Jahnavi and the New Voters team have grown the school club into a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit, working with high school student-leaders across America to help them host highly-successful non-partisan voter registration drives at their schools. For the 2020 election, New Voters registered 50,000 high school students across 300 high school chapters.</p> <p>Outside of New Voters, Jahnavi served as the Founder and Director of High School Engagement at the Harvard Votes Challenge, Co-President of the Harvard South Asian Women's Collective, and is an active cast member of the Harvard College Opera Society. In her free time, you can find Jahnavi listening to Taylor swift and watching vine compilations.</p> <p>About the podcast:</p> <p>How Tech Becomes Law is a weekly public interest tech podcast about technology, public policy, and career advice. We are your co-hosts, Jinyan Zang and Dhruv Gupta. Each episode uncovers insights from leaders in government, business, journalism, and academia to highlight how technology can be built in the public interest. Interviewees discuss how technology can move society forward, what role they play in shaping this, and how students and young professionals can impact the path forward.</p> <p>We are supported by the <a href="https://techlab.org/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Public Interest Tech Lab</a>. Listen to us on your podcast platform of choice. You can find us online at <a href="https://www.howtechbecomeslaw.org/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">howtechbecomeslaw.org</a> and on social media channels @techbecomeslaw.</p>
February 23, 2022
13. How do we build a regulator for digital platforms? Talking with Tom Wheeler, Former Chair of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
<p>How do we build a regulator for digital platforms? In this episode, we talk to Tom Wheeler, former Chair of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), about how regulators can balance technological innovation with other public interests such as protecting truth in media, a competitive marketplace, consumer data privacy, and more. Listen to Tom discuss how as the Chair of the FCC, he was able to implement rules to enforce net neutrality, data privacy, cybersecurity, and affordable broadband access for schools across the U.S. Tom discusses in detail about his proposal for a new agile regulator of digital platforms in the U.S. that he worked on with colleagues at Harvard University in order to fight the big con from Big Tech of needing "permissionless innovation" in order for the U.S. to remain competitive. With this new digital platforms regulator, the U.S. can take a leadership position in the world by creating the rules for how technology should interact with Americans rather than ceding control to the E.U., the U.K, or China. One of the areas the regulator can drive innovation is in creating more open data systems where consumers can switch social networks in the future as easily as they can switch phone providers today. Finally, Tom reflects on his illustrious career to offer some advice to recent grads to follow their passions, whether that's to Capitol Hill, to a private tech company, to a regulatory agency, or to a graduate degree. Ultimately, what they just need to get started and what they do for the next 3 years or 5 years is only the beginning of the long arc of their career.</p> <p><strong>Guest bio:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/about/appointees#wheeler">Tom Wheeler</a> served as the Chairman of the FCC from 2013 to 2017 under President Obama. For more than three decades, Wheeler has been involved with new telecommunications networks and services, experiencing the revolution in telecommunications as a policy expert, advocate, and businessman. As an entrepreneur, he started or helped start multiple companies offering cable, wireless, and video communications services. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and a Senior Fellow at HKS’ Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution.</p> <p><strong>Related links:</strong></p> <p>From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future. Tom Wheeler. <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/book/from-gutenberg-to-google/">https://www.brookings.edu/book/from-gutenberg-to-google/</a></p> <p><strong>About the podcast:</strong></p> <p>How Tech Becomes Law is a weekly public interest tech podcast about technology, public policy, and career advice. We are your co-hosts, Jinyan Zang and Dhruv Gupta. Each episode uncovers insights from leaders in government, business, journalism, and academia to highlight how technology can be built in the public interest. Interviewees discuss how technology can move society forward, what role they play in shaping this, and how students and young professionals can impact the path forward.</p> <p>We are supported by the <a href="https://techlab.org/">Public Interest Tech Lab</a>. Listen to us on your podcast platform of choice. You can find us online at <a href="https://www.howtechbecomeslaw.org/">howtechbecomeslaw.org</a> and on social media channels @techbecomeslaw.</p>
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