A Wired World: The Internet and International Relations [Rush tr. Speakers: Andrew McLaughlin, Head of Global Policy, Google, Inc., and Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council on Foreign RelationsPresider: Daniel F. Burton Jr., Vice President for Government Affairs, Entrust, Inc.Introductory Speakers: David Kellogg, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations, Michael Moran, Executive Editor of cfr.org, Council on Foreign Relations, and Nancy E.
Roman, Vice President and Director, Washington Program, Council on Foreign Relations September 14, 2005 Council on Foreign Relations Washington, DC Council on Foreign RelationsWashington, DC NANCY ROMAN: It’s a huge undertaking. And there is someone I would very much like to acknowledge, David Kellogg, right there, who is going to—if you’ll stand up, David. He is vice president of the Council for Corporate Affairs. And David is the brains behind a lot of what we do here at the Council. So, David, thank you for coming.
MICHAEL MORAN: Thank you very much. Digital Openness in Closed Societies. Speakers: Jeff Jarvis, Author, Buzzmachine; Director, New Media Program, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and John Palfrey, Clinical Professor of Law and Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law SchoolPresider: Michael Moran, Executive Editor, CFR.Org January 31, 2008 Council on Foreign Relations MICHAEL MORAN: Well, welcome everybody. Very happy to see this turnout. Welcome to CFR's look at digital openness around the world. This is very much a cutting-edge issue. I'm happy to say that we got a little news peg out of this. The State Department budget that the president just revealed includes $15 million for something, a project to help people get around filtering which is exactly what we're going to talk about tonight.
I'd like to give you a couple of reminders that are standard here at the council. And I should introduce myself. CFR, as you can see, you know, it's obviously -- you know what CFR is, the institution. We have done two of them so far. Google, China, and Dueling Internets? - Council on Foreign Relat. Interviewee: Adam Segal, Ira A. Lipman Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and National Security Studies, CFRInterviewer: Jayshree Bajoria, Staff Writer, CFR.org January 14, 2010 Google, the world's leading search engine, has announced it will no longer censor search results on its Chinese service.
Google said it had discovered attacks on its system that resulted in the loss of its intellectual property. Although Google did not blame the Chinese government, it said the attacks could be traced to China and appear to have targeted human rights activists in China, Europe, and the United States. China leads the world with nearly 300 million Internet users, but the Chinese government has large, sophisticated filtering systems to censor the Internet. Segal says we might be heading toward a world of separate Internets, with a West-led Internet and a range of other webs such as one controlled by China. Help U.S. firms free China's Web.
Authors: Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies, and Michael A. Levi, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change April 20, 2006 International Herald Tribune A string of events has forced China’s information technology policy onto the U.S. agenda.
Yahoo’s assistance when Beijing arrested a democracy advocate, Microsoft’s closure of free-wheeling Chinese Web sites, and Google’s accession to Chinese censorship demands have brought into stark relief the difference in political values between the two countries in a way not seen since Tiananmen Square. In the absence of White House engagement, the Chinese and the U.S. The Congressional bill would require all U.S. Strong leadership from the Bush administration could establish a more practical path. The administration should explore attacking censorship as a barrier to trade. View full text of article. Can the Internet Bring Democracy to China? - Council on Foreign.