Announcing Our 2014 Briefings, Save the Dates

With the help of our Advisory Committee we have put together an ambitious calendar of Congressional Internet Caucus AC briefings during this session of Congress. We have posted the tentative dates and titles for these upcoming briefings on our calendar page here. We’ve also pasted them below.

We started the 2014 briefing season on January 17 with a briefing on the DC Circuit’s decision on the FCC’s Open Internet Rules — 75 hours after the decision was released. Like many of our briefings in 2013 it was televised on C-SPAN. In February we restarted the Internet Caucus AC Speakers Series featuring renowned Internet researcher danah boyd.

The “Speakers Series” brings Internet leaders and luminaries to the Capitol Complex to share their expertise with Internet policy leaders in Congress. Past “Speakers” have included Internet founding fathers such as Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee and Marty Cooper as well as industry leaders like Bill Gates, Michael Eisner, Meg Whitman, and Kazuo Hirai. We are pleased that Spencer Rascoff, CEO of Zillow, will continue the tradition next week on March 27 (RSVP via EventBrite).

In addition to the scheduled briefings detailed below we will also react to unforseen developments in our space, presenting timely briefings to Congressional staff on an as-needed basis. Also, the planning group on Friday discussed hosting briefings on Anti-SLAPP legislation, Cyber-Security in the Telecom Supply Chain, and the Internet of Things. We hope to get to those topics as well, time permitting.

Thank you for your interest in the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee.

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