Esteemed Technologist and Advocate to Lead New Policy Hub for Growing Network of Scholars and Experts Who Study Information and Technology
Washington– WEBWIRE — Monday, January 22, 2024
Georgetown University and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation reveal the visit of Alissa Cooper as the inaugural executive director of the KnightGeorgetown Institute (KGI), a brand-new center committed to cultivating more notified details and innovation policy through raising independent research study. An idea leader at the leading edge of tech policy, personal privacy, requirements and policy, Cooper brings the depth of insight and experience required to direct this brand-new institute.
Formerly, Dr. Cooper functioned as vice president, engineering, and fellow at Cisco Systems, where she played a main function in forming Ciscos method to innovation standardization, public law and personal privacy throughout the companys networking, security and cooperation organizations. Her management functions consisted of acting as the chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the worlds leading Internet requirements company. Find out more about Cooper here
We are extremely happy to invite Alissa as the inaugural executive director of KGI. Her experience in numerous sectors will move forward KGIs facility of collaborations so essential to the objective of the Institute, stated Georgetown University provost Robert M. Groves.
This consultation is a substantial turning point for the KnightGeorgetown Institute, revealed last May to work as a main center for the growing network of scholarship that looks for to form how innovation is utilized to produce, distribute and gain access to info. The institute, positioned simply obstructs from the U.S. Capitol, is the outcome of a $30 million dedication from Knight Foundation and Georgetown UniversityDeveloped to be a resource for choice makers in both the general public and economic sectors, reporters and others working to boil down and interact these complicated problems, the brand-new KnightGeorgetown Institute (KGI) will likewise work as a neutral convener in the heart of Washington, D.C. More here
I am humbled and honored to lead the work of the KnightGeorgetown Institute at this defining moment in our countries history, Cooper stated. Dealing with the brightest minds at Georgetown and throughout the interdisciplinary research study field, we have a special chance to empower educated choice making that will form our shared futures and our democracy.
As an essential part of Georgetowns Tech & & Society Initiativethe KnightGeorgetown Institute is placed to raise and boil down actionable insights from scholastic research study, making them available to policymakers, economic sector leaders, reporters and civil society. The Institutes launch constructs on Knights more than $100 million in dedications to support leading independent scientists, technologists and policy professionals (Knight Research Network) who are advancing our cumulative understanding of the difficulties and chances that accompany brand-new infotech.
A growing field of research study is now closing a few of the most relentless spaces in our understanding about the guarantee and mistakes of digitally-mediated info in our democracy, stated John Sands, Knight Foundations senior director for Media & & DemocracyAs researchers and professionals reach more comprehensive contract, the Knight-Georgetown Institute, under Alissas management, will guarantee that agreement is both available and actionable.
About Georgetown Tech & & Society Initiative
Georgetowns Tech & & Society Initiative is a cross-campus network of centers and institutes participated in interdisciplinary partnership, research study and action at the crossway of innovation, principles and governance. The effort consists of the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation, the Center for Digital Ethics, the Center on Privacy & & Technology, the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, the Ethics Lab, the Institute for Technology Law & & Policy, and the Massive Data Institute. Discover more on our site and follow Tech & & Society on social networks
About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation:
We are social financiers who support a more efficient democracy by moneying totally free expression and journalism, arts and culture in neighborhood, research study in locations of media and democracy, and in the success of American cities and towns where the Knight siblings as soon as released papers. Discover more at kf.org and follow @knightfdn on social networks.
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