Celebration and Wine Reception: Open Technology Initiative Launch

Please join us on Wednesday, June 10 to officially launch the Open Technology Initiative (OTI) and to learn more about its current projects, including M-Lab, an open platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools; Building the 21st Century Broadband Superhighway, an initiative to deploy middle-mile fiber infrastructure across the country; and other ways OTI promotes affordable, universal, and ubiquitous communications networks through partnerships with communities, researchers, industry, and public interest groups.

The Open Technology Initiative formulates policy and regulatory reforms to support open architectures and open source innovations and facilitates the development and implementation of open technologies and communications networks.

OTI is committed to maximizing the potentials of innovative open technologies by studying their social and economic impacts – particularly for poor, rural, and other underserved constituencies. As an independent non-profit initiative, OTI provides in-depth, objective research, analysis, and findings for policy decision-makers and the general public.

Participants

Opening Remarks
Steve Coll
President & CEO
New America Foundation
Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Featured Speakers
Rick Whitt
Washington Telecom and
Media Counsel
Google

Christopher
Libertelli
Director of Government and Regulatory
Affairs
Skype

Ben
Scott
Policy Director
Free Press

Helen Brunner
Director
Media and
Democracy Fund

Gigi Sohn
President
Public Knowledge

Sascha
Meinrath
Director, Open
Technology Initiative
New America
Foundation

More speakers to be announced soon.