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ANNOUNCING – TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION INSTITUTE
CLI is starting a new special project: the Technology Education
Institute.
TEI's mission is to provide background knowledge necessary for choosing
appropriate congressional and regulatory policy toward technology-based industry.
Its audience is anyone who is interested, but with a focus on members of Congress
and their staffs, personnel of regulatory and executive branch agencies, state
legislators and their staffs, and the trade press.
Its mechanisms will be:
- Site Visits. The military has a tradition called "the Staff Ride,"
which
is a tour of an actual battlefield conducted by an expert who discuses the facts
on the ground, the information available to the commanders, and the choices available
and made.
The battlefields of the high-tech age are data centers,
communications hubs,
research labs, energy facilities, fab plants,
and innovation clusters, often
of awesome size and complexity.
There is no substitute for actually seeing such
facilities and
learning how they work. TEI will conduct a series of short but
intensive tours of such facilities, usually in small groups of six
to 12 at a
time, starting with those within reach of D.C.
- Expert Seminars and One-on-One Briefings;
Washington
has
too many panel discussions at which contending interests
each
get
10 minutes to shout their talking points. TEI will conduct seminars
for staff and Members at which one or two
experts will take as long as
necessary to discuss a key topic with
the audience, in thoughtful but practical
terms.
- Conferences. TEI will sponsor high-level conferences that
are
focused on how to get things done rather than on endless debate.
For example,
its first conference will be on electromagnetic spectrum. There is universal
agreement that more spectrum must be made available to commercial enterprises;
the question on the table is
how to build a robust secondary market for spectrum.
- Papers. TEI will produce background papers, selectively.
These
will be pithy works addressed to the audiences described above –
people
who already know something about an issue, but need
additional information or
would profit from a new point of view that
is receiving insufficient attention.
The objective is to be useful to congressional staffers and trade press by helping
them better do
their jobs.
- International. TEI will continue to be actively involved
in both the IGF (Internet Governance Forum) and
their annual conference as well as the IGF USA
conferences and activities. Additionally, TEI will continue to
look to co-sponsor events with ICT policy think tanks outside the US
and establish relationships
with organizations like CEPS (Center for European Policy Studies) in Brussels
and the Istituto Bruno Leoni in
Italy.
TEI will be an autonomous project within CLI. Its President, Founder & Director
is Garland T. McCoy, Jr., the former Senior VP
of the Progress and Freedom Foundation and former Founder and Chief Development
Officer of the Technology Policy Institute. Its Vice President will be James
V. DeLong, who is VP & Senior Analyst of CLI.
TEI will operate within the confines of CLI’s 501(c)(3) status as a non-profit
corporation. This status is deliberately chosen to emphasize that TEI’s function
is education, not lobbying, and that it is not a channel for anyone’s talking
points.
New From CLI
- Signal Over Noise: Review of George Gilder, Knowledge and Power -- National Review (Aug. 19, 2013)
- Detroit and the Special-Interest State -- RealClearPolicy (Aug. 5, 2013)
- Comment in Response to Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization -- Competitive Enterprise Institute & Convergence Law Institute (Feb. 13, 2013)
- Myths and Facts about Copyright -- National Review Online (Nov. 29, 2012)
- America's Crisis of Political Legitimacy -- The American (Aug. 28, 2012)
- Ghost of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes Gets a Second Chance -- The American (July 3, 2012)
- All Right, Have It Your Way - It's a Living Constitution -- American Thinker (June 26, 2012)
- It's Not a Welfare State, It's a Special Interest State -- The American (June 14, 2012)
- Can Government Be Limited? -- The American (April 20, 2012)
- Does the Constitution Make You a Cash Cow? -- The American (November 15, 2011).
- Answered Prayers on Telecom? -- The American (September 21, 2011).
- The Compassion Trap -- The American (July 29, 2011).
- The FDA Tries for Perfection in Perversity -- The American (July 29, 2011).
- Washington’s Seizure of Sunk Capital: Part II -- The American (June 28, 2011).
- Washington’s Seizure of Sunk Capital -- The American (June 8, 2011).
- The Tea Party movement and our collective interest -- Tea Party Review (April 2011).
- Smothering Medical Innovation -- Pajamas Media (April 02, 2011).
- Regulatory Agencies Cannot Be Controlled by Requirements of Interior Rationality -- American Enterprise Blog (March 21, 2011).
- Why Was Chris Dodd Chosen to Helm the MPAA? -- Pajamas Media (March 10, 2011).
- Flushing Money Down the Toilet -- American Enterprise Blog (Feb. 28, 2011).
- Comments on Federal Reserve System Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Debit
Card Interchange Fees and Routing, 75 Federal Register 81722 (Dec. 28, 2010), filed on Feb. 21, 2011.
- Eminent Domain (at a Price) -- The American (Dec 17, 2010).
- Protecting Property on the Internet -- The American (Dec 8, 2010).
- Comment
in response to Department of Commerce, Inquiry
on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Internet Economy,
filed Nov 19, 2010, James DeLong on behalf of Digital Society.
- Tea Party Tech Policy -- The American (Oct 29, 2010).
- Tea Time for Vets -- The American (Oct 20, 2010).
- Thermal Coal as U.S. Export Industry -- Seeking Alpha (Sep 15, 2010).
- The Precarious Crown of King Coal -- Seeking Alpha (Sep 13, 2010).
- Googling the Book Settlement -- The American (May 26, 2010).
- Making Finance Easy to Fix, Not Hard to Break -- The American (May 13, 2010).
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