\”The Future of News\” is a 10-part series for public television where the best minds in traditional and new media meet to discuss the role of a free press in an ever-changing digital democracy. It attempts to highlight the emerging forms of news presentations and to emphasize the role of technological diversity in the modern media landscape. A common theme which runs through each show is the need for credible and verifiable news and information in a robust democracy.
On October 31, 2009 Aneesh Chopra, US chief technology officer, and Ellen Miller, co-founder of the Sunlight Foundation, discussed privacy, net neutrality and the digital divide.
The question which was a recurring theme was, \”Who will control the channels of news and information on the Internet?\”
• Aneesh Chopra on the Federal Register being online.
• Ellen Miller on technology allowing greater government transparency.
\”The more we make available online, the more we hope third parties and others will help inform their constituencies.\”
— Aneesh Chopra
\”Transparency through the technology… enables citizens and their government to actually have a conversation.\”
— Ellen S. Miller
About Aneesh Chopra
Aneesh Chopra is the chief technology officer and associate director for technology in the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy. He is the former secretary of technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and was managing director with the Advisory Board Company, a publicly-traded health-care think tank.
About Ellen S. Miller
Ellen S. Miller is co-founder of the Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization which advocates openness in government through the Internet. She is a former deputy director of campaign at America\’s Future, publisher of TomPaine.com, was a senior fellow at The American Prospect magazine.
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