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Nicol Turner Lee

Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

Director - Center for Technology Innovation

@drturnerlee

Darrell M. West

Vice President and Director - Governance Studies

Senior Fellow - Center for Technology Innovation

Douglas Dillon Chair in Governmental Studies

@DarrWest

Cameron F. Kerry

Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation

@Cam_Kerry

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Research

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AI cooperation on the ground: AI research and development on a global scale

Cameron F. Kerry, Joshua P. Meltzer, and Andrea Renda

Friday, November 4, 2022

Your new BMW could make you feel like a fish out of water - as in the future parts will be made from recycled fishing nets.In a first for the automotive industry, from 2025 models of their NEUE KLASSE cars will feature trim parts made of plastic whose raw material contains around 30 percent recycled nets and ropes. This raw material is proactively sourced at ports all around the world to ensure that it doesn’t end up being discarded in the sea.In an exclusive recycling process, waste material from the maritime industry is used to produce trim parts suitable for the exterior and interior of future vehicles. The resulting components have an approximately 25 percent lower carbon footprint than their counterparts made from conventionally manufactured plastics.The BMW Group is working with different approaches to use plastic waste from the maritime industry as a raw material for vehicle components in order to conserve valuable resources and reduce CO2 emissions. This form of recycling makes it possible to reduce the need for petroleum-based primary plastics and at the same time counteract ocean pollution.Recycled nylon waste forms the basis for a synthetic yarn from which the floor mats in the BMW iX and the new BMW X1, for example, are made. This material, known as ECONYL, is made from discarded fishing nets well as worn floor coverings and residual waste from plastics production.In a new initiative developed in cooperation with the Danish company PLASTIX, the BMW Group is taking the recycling of maritime plastic waste a step further. After separation, fishing nets and ropes undergo an innovative process that produces plastic granules. While recycled maritime plastic has so far only been used in the automotive industry in the form of fibres for new vehicle components, this recycled material is now also suitable for the injection moulding process for the first time. The raw material for the components manufactured in this way can consist of around 30 percent mari

Report

R&D for the public good: Ways to strengthen societal innovation in the United States

Darrell M. West

Monday, October 10, 2022

The road leading into town of Dedham, Iowa.

Infrastructure

Why the federal government needs to step up efforts to close the rural broadband divide

Nicol Turner Lee, James Seddon, Brooke Tanner, and Samantha Lai

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

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Blog Posts

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) addresses the U.S. House of Representatives during the start of the 116th Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 3, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1A13FFE820

TechTank

Will California be the death of national privacy legislation?

Cameron F. Kerry

Friday, November 18, 2022

TechTank

TechTank Episode 57: What will it take to create inclusive AR/VR for a more diverse metaverse?

Nicol Turner Lee, Rashawn Ray, and Kinnis Gosha

Monday, November 14, 2022

Tesla CEO Elon Musk leaves Manhattan federal court after a hearing on his fraud settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in New York City, U.S., April 4, 2019. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

TechTank

Could Elon Musk grow to like regulation?

Tom Wheeler

Monday, November 7, 2022

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The TechTank Podcast

TechTank

TechTank Podcast Episode 58: Twitter, Trump, and online speech

Nicol Turner Lee, Darrell M. West, and Tom Wheeler

Monday, November 28, 2022

TechTank

TechTank Episode 57: What will it take to create inclusive AR/VR for a more diverse metaverse?

Nicol Turner Lee, Rashawn Ray, and Kinnis Gosha

Monday, November 14, 2022

Press conference stand in the U.S. White House. Multiple microphones in front of stand and American flags in background.

TechTank

TechTank Podcast Episode 56: Latino voters, midterm elections, and the effects of misinformation, and disinformation

Nicol Turner Lee, Gabriel R. Sanchez, and Nora Benavidez

Monday, October 31, 2022

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Events

Multimedia

Technology & Innovation

Building for the Future: Advancing Digital Competitiveness through Broadband Access and Adoption

Nicol Turner Lee

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram logos are displayed through broken glass in this illustration taken October 4, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Podcast Episode

Will the Facebook whistleblower’s testimony spur new US digital regulation?

Tom Wheeler and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, October 14, 2021

An image of Israeli soldiers is seen on a computer screen with colourful markings of a face recognition programming script, during a cyber security training course, called a Hackathon, at iNT Institute of Technology and Innovation, at a high-tech park in Beersheba, southern Israel August 28, 2017. Picture taken August 28, 2017. REUTERS/Amir Cohen - RC1DE502FAB0

Telecommunications & Internet

TechTank Podcast Episode 22: Protecting your online reputation

Darrell M. West and Quinta Jurecic

Monday, June 28, 2021

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TechTank

Transparency is essential for effective social media regulation

Mark MacCarthy

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

The Twitter App loads on an iPhone in this illustration photograph taken in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 22, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake

TechTank

Social media companies and common carrier status: a primer

John Villasenor

Thursday, October 27, 2022

TechTank

Encouraging interoperability to help learners in the digital credential marketplace

Alex Engler

Monday, October 17, 2022

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Center for Technology Innovation

TechTank Podcast Episode 58: Twitter, Trump, and online speech

The future of Twitter: Four scenarios

Around the halls: What do the midterm elections mean for tech policy?

The AI Bill of Rights makes uneven progress on algorithmic protections

Experts

Nicol Turner Lee

Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

Director - Center for Technology Innovation

Darrell M. West

Vice President and Director - Governance Studies

Senior Fellow - Center for Technology Innovation

Douglas Dillon Chair in Governmental Studies

Cameron F. Kerry

Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation

Research

AI cooperation on the ground: AI research and development on a global scale

R&D for the public good: Ways to strengthen societal innovation in the United States

Why the federal government needs to step up efforts to close the rural broadband divide

Blog Posts

Will California be the death of national privacy legislation?

TechTank Episode 57: What will it take to create inclusive AR/VR for a more diverse metaverse?

Could Elon Musk grow to like regulation?

The TechTank Podcast

TechTank Podcast Episode 58: Twitter, Trump, and online speech

TechTank Episode 57: What will it take to create inclusive AR/VR for a more diverse metaverse?

TechTank Podcast Episode 56: Latino voters, midterm elections, and the effects of misinformation, and disinformation

Events

Unpacking the White House blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights

5G is smart. Now let’s make it secure

How incentive-based rating systems can mitigate online biases

Multimedia

Building for the Future: Advancing Digital Competitiveness through Broadband Access and Adoption

Will the Facebook whistleblower’s testimony spur new US digital regulation?

TechTank Podcast Episode 22: Protecting your online reputation

More on Center for Technology Innovation

Transparency is essential for effective social media regulation

Social media companies and common carrier status: a primer

Encouraging interoperability to help learners in the digital credential marketplace