TAP facilitates the dialogue between academic researchers and policy makers on critical technology and innovation issues.

Policymakers and researchers across disciplines are working to address questions regarding the state of internet access and digital equity. While regulators might use existing datasets to answer these policy questions, these datasets present challenges and complications that often lead to misleading conclusions. Gaps and errors in datasets will yield poor funding decisions, with effects that are likely to be felt especially severely in historically or intentionally underserved areas. There exists, in general, a gap between the data policymakers need and the data currently available.

To bridge the divide between researchers and policymakers working to close the digital divide, this workshop aims to bring together experts from both domains. The goal is to catalyze new ideas, collaborations, and solutions to counter internet inequity within the US and beyond.

The Governance in Online Speech Leadership Series is an interdisciplinary 3-day workshop that aims to connect those currently working at speech platforms in trust & safety, content moderation, content policy, integrity, and governance with the generation of people in industry, civil society, and academia who pioneered these fields as lawyers, policy-makers, project managers, engineers, stakeholders, and scholars.

TPI Aspen brings together experts across business, industry, and government to discuss how tech policy and regulation impact daily life. Through panel discussions and fireside chats, participants discuss experiences with tech policy—what worked, what did not, what we still need to understand, and how policy can make technology work for everyone. Several TAP scholars will participate.