Thinking down the line about cyber

A WONK’S WONK — MC visited last week with buzzy Washington think tank New America to hear about its ambitious Cybersecurity Initiative, launched just last year. The idea, according to co-director Ian Wallace is to study “the next issue, the issue down the line.” Fellow Peter Singer (a wonk so wonky he once conducted a study of think tanks themselves) says the initiative will focus on topics that are “pre-partisan” — areas so new that they aren’t yet the object of political combat.

What’s on tap? Cybersecurity’s overlap with poverty; the state and local angle; cyber war; social media; and workforce worries, especially the lack of women in the field (a “generational” problem, according to Ross Schulman, policy counsel for the think tank’s Open Technology Institute).  For the full article click here 

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