To protect public integrity and faith our election, it is integral for the United States to work to combat

existing misinformation, protect the safety of election officials, and guarantee that existing cybersecurity

measures are adequate in protecting the vote of the American people. On TechTank, Darrell West is

joined by Elaine Kamarck and Elizabeth Howard to discuss these topics and more.

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Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode of TechTank, host Nicol Turner Lee is joined by Undersecretary Xochitl Torres Small.

Together, they discuss the administration’s ongoing work to close the urban-rural digital divide, how IIJA

funding has helped the USDA expand programs such as the ReConnect program, and how the USDA has

been working to meet different communities’ hyperlocal needs.

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Spectrum policy has been essential in determining how to encourage communications technology

development, while ensuring equitable access. On TechTank, Nicol Turner Lee, Andrew Von Ah, Shane

Tews and Kathleen Burke discuss pressing topics in spectrum policy and interrogate if the lack of

available spectrum will be a dealbreaker in closing the digital divide.

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Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On TechTank, guest host Samantha Lai is joined by Lydia X.Z. Brown, Alex Engler and Henry Claypool to

discuss how people with disabilities are affected by existing technologies. They investigate issues with

privacy, AI bias, surveillance technology and more, and consider what is needed to rectify these wrongs.

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Not a single week of 2022 has passed without multiple mass shootings. 343 people have been killed

and 1,391 injured through July 4th of this year. On TechTank, host Dr. Nicol Turner Lee, Carol Graham and

Darrell West examine the role social media has played in past mass shootings and look into how the

public has reacted online to prospects of gun legislation and rising political polarization in the US.

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Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This year’s Pride Month comes at a difficult time for LGBTQ+ rights. Over the past year, there have been over 300 anti-LGBTQ bills proposed in at least 28 states, including Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill that aims to limit LGBTQ+ discussion in schools, and a bill in Ohio that would ban transgender women from participating in high school and college athletics that includes a “verification process” of checking the genitals of those accused of being transgender. 

On TechTank, Samantha Lai, guest host and research assistant at the Center for Technology Innovation, is joined by David Johns, executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, and Chris Wood, executive director and co-founder of LGBT Tech, to discuss how technology concerns surrounding privacy, content moderation, facial recognition, and more shape the online experiences of the LGBTQ+ community. 

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