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On this episode of the TechTank Podcast, co-host Darrell West is joined by two distinguished experts to discuss if economic decoupling is possible for the United States. Melanie Sisson is a fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, where she focuses on national security in the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology. Emily Weinstein is a research fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, where she focuses on U.S.-China technological competition.
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On this week’s episode of the TechTank Podcast, co-hosts Darrell West, and Nicol Turner Lee discuss the
future of Biden’s tech policy agenda under the new 118 th Congress, including broadband infrastructure,
anti-trust, big tech accountability, data privacy, and AI, among other issues. With a GOP majority in the
House of Representatives and a Democrat-led Senate, this episode dives into which policy areas show
the most promise for consensus, and where there may be challenges to gain cooperation within a
divided Congress.

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On this week’s episode of the TechTank Podcast, moderator Darrell West, Vice President of Governance
Studies at the Brookings Institution, will discuss if it's time for the Supreme Court to regulate social
media platforms and the search engines that have become prominent amongst society. To help with this
conversation, the Podcast is happily joined by John Villasenor, a Professor of Engineering, Law, and
Public Policy at UCLA and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings. Mark MacCarthy is a Senior Fellow
at the Institute for Technology, Law, and Policy at Georgetown University and a Nonresident Senior
Fellow at Brookings.

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On this episode, host Nicol Turner Lee explores technology adoption in Africa and universal access throughout the continent with guests Yolanda Jinxin Ma, head of Digital Policy and Global Partnerships at the United Nations Development Programme, Addisu Lashitew, Global Economy and Development nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Jane Munga, Africa Program fellow at Carnegie who focuses on technology policy. 


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In this episode of the podcast, co-host Darrell West speaks to Nicol Turner Lee, senior fellow in Governance Studies and director of the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings and Tom Wheeler, a visiting fellow in Governance Studies and the author of a forthcoming Brookings book, “Techlash” about Twitter's future, and the consequences of recent tumultuous changes at the company.
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In this episode of Tech Tank, co-host, Nicol Turner Lee, speaks with Rashawn Ray, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings Institution, and Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Lab for Applied Social Science Research, University of Maryland; and Kinnis Gosha, Executive Director and Chief Research Officer of the Center for Broadening Participation in Computing, Morehouse College. These experts discuss the current and future possibilities of AR/VR, and the metaverse and the impact on public sector applications. We also dive into how to attract more diverse developers and subscribers
on these spaces.

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