Key National Challenges. In 2020, one of the Biggest National challenges we face is to hold the National Challenge National Selection during the covid19 pandemic. Today, we are honored to host leading experts from the national and intergovernmental community that protects state and local government Information Systems. First, well hear from jeffrey hale, the director of the Election Security initiative at the department of Homeland Security. He will be followed by a discussion including questions from the audience. Please feel free to use the chat function here on zoom to ask questions. After that, the second half of our program will feature a discussion with representatives of associations of discussions on leaders. Lindsay forson, with National Association of secretaries of state. And Maggie Brunner, a director for Homeland Security at the National Governors association. First, its really terrific to have an opportunity to hear from jeffrey and the department of Homeland Security. Si
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The George Washington institute for data, democracy and politics is hosting this forum. Live coverage on cspan2. Today we tackle another grade disinformation harm, election disinformation. We will have two very important panels. Offers will focus on foreign interference. The second panel will zero in on democratic integrity and Voter Suppression. These are vitally important themes. They are both areas of urgent and serious challenge threatening civil discourse and our democracy itself. We have to understand them, find ways to stop them, all apple for by social media. In between our panel will hear from stacey abrams, founder of fair fight 2020 and will describe the realities she is experienced and she is trying to confront. Were hosting is a series of forms impala with workshops hosted by the center for International Governance innovation on disinformation come online governments exploit domestic and International Governance. Our series is held in cooperation with members of the Intern
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A twinkling hopes for another season in the top flight with a peak when the last place terrible. Welcome a day of street protests in different parts of the world many focused on bryces and messages spotted by the death of a black man in the us at the knee of a Police Officer but there was pushback in many cities from 5 rock groups who said they were protecting National Monuments or Even National identity or report starts in london. Police had warned everyone to stay home the threat of spreading the coronavirus to great but in the area Trafalgar Square smoke bombs and tear gas bottles and rocks were the main concern as rival protests and protesters scuffled with the police who were trying to keep them apart emotions took over in some areas far right activists taking over a major boulevard those who said they were guarding and now boarded up statue of Winston Churchill pushed back police as well the statue had been vandalized earlier in the week by people claiming churchill was a racist.