That really we shouldnt expect today in successful, modern, techdriven economy, and closing this gap was a big part of the motivation, both for my term of duty in Public Service as well as i wanted to write the book. Host the subtitle is how new technologies can transform government. How does the u. S. Government use technology and does it do it successfully. Guest were moving in the right direction, i think about American History in the book. Go back to our founding fathers. We have had a long tradition of having government keep pace and often lead the private sector in the use of technology to solve problems. I noted, for example, one of the Founding Technology oz ibm had its origins in a Census Bureau employee who face seemingly irsurmountmentables to calculate the number of people in the country. So governments have long history of being innovative and the capability to deliver Better Services, and the last several decades we have sign a divergence in the capacity in the private se
Establishment so we learned about that. But the thing that we need to remember is all of these challenges, the medical challenges, the nuclear, biological challenges, the solution to all of these is many different times. You dont do the same thing in the chemical threat as the biological threat. One case you gather up the other case you spread out. So these are the kinds of techniques that we have to think about. When you look at the enormty of it, it is kind of interesting to throw up your hands but we faced a big threat in the 1907s it was extraordinarily complex in terms of weather in terms of physics in terms of ocean et cetera. It was called the Russian Submarine threat. And it was called the u. S. Americanantiis submarine threat as well. It was enormous. So much that we almost didnt want to tackle it. But we did. And we used an approach where we bit off a little bit of the apple at a time, a little bit more at the time, a little bit more at the time. And after a while in about 10
Next, author Glenn Greenwald talks about government surveillance and security. After that, internet regulations between content providers and service providers. After that, a forum on internet privacy. This weekend, independent vermont senator bernie sanders, the chair of the Veterans Affairs committee. He talks about efforts to revamp the v. A. The lameduck congress. What he expects in the next congress. And campaign 2016. Newsmakers, on cspan. Author and columnist grennan Glenn Greenwald spoke in ottawa, canada. It came shortly after the shooting of a canadian soldier. He also address concerns about surveillance. Following the speech, he took questions on Edward Snowden, canada possible and mass surveillance, and working with journalists. Event. Rown moderates the hello, everybody. My name is bill owen. I am the organizer. With a lot of help from open media. They have been instrumental. I have done these things before and these guys are great sponsors. A little bit of the history. Pa
Actually irresponsible to see these critical hours, when citizenry is most engaged and in an metion and emotional and very riveted way, to let government message goes unchallenged. They dont wait before they start politicizing. Not just the event but even these well intentioned emotional rituals that spring up around them. I think its worth talking that as well. But the most significant part of this dynamic, and i want to spend the bulk of my time talking about, is the way in which we have been persuaded to ink about the world in a drastically different way than reality ought to suggest. By that i mean that we have been persuaded to think about our own societies and our own governments and our own behavior in the world that theres very little recentral wlens to the reality of what weve allowed our society and governments to do in the world. And to illustrate that as best as i can, i want to share with you a little anecdote. That involves canada. The very first story from the snowden ar