McCourt institute inaugural event: The future of tech governance
The internet of today hardly resembles the ideals on which the World Wide Web was founded. Despite many benefits, today’s tech structure is eroding trust and fuelling misinformation, polarization, and inequity. Instead of exploring ways to repair a broken model, many people are now focused on developing a new internet architecture built on a more equitable foundation, focusing on users, optimizing for access and equity, and building for the common good.
The McCourt inaugural event will address the opportunities and challenges of the development of new Web3 technologies and their related governance structures. This event will gather technologists, social scientists, ethicists, public policy and governance experts, and leaders from the public and private sectors to advance the discussion on a new decentralized web paradigm and explore what’s at stake for society.
Including:
Mathias Vicherat, President of Sciences Po
Frank McCourt, Chairman & CEO, McCourt Global and Founder of the Institute
- Maria Cancian, Dean of the McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
- Dominique Cardon, Professor of sociology and Director of the Medialab, Sciences Po
- Marie-Laure Denis, President of the French data protection authority (CNIL)
- Manuel Heitor, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of the Government of Portugal
- Bertrand Perez, Chief Operations Officer of the Web3 Foundation
- Guillaume Plantin, Scientific Director, Sciences Po
- Marietje Schaake, International Policy Director at the Cyber Policy Center and International and Policy Fellow at the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence of Stanford University
- Andreas Schwab, Member of the European Parliament (EPP, German).
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Founded in partnership with Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and Sciences Po in Paris, the McCourt Institute is a visionary initiative to transform how the internet works, create a more equitable digital economy, and develop a new civic architecture for the digital world. It was established to ensure that digital governance is prioritized and embedded into and in the development of new technology.