Governments around the world. Her book is the information trade. Hi, everybody. Thank you for coming. I am the editor of the outlook section of the Washington Post which is our home for ideas and essays and criticism including Nonfiction Book coverage, and im very lucky and you are very lucky to be here tonight with alexis wichowski, who is the author of the information trade, how big tech conquerors, challenges rights and transforms the world. Can you hear me without the microphone . No. Okay. Can you hear me with the microphone . Also, know in the back. Yeah. Alexis wichowski is the deputy y cto of new york city where she runs basically the policy Experiment Lab trying to get the others to compete for who can devise the best programs to improve the social warfare of the citizens of new york. Shes an adjunct professor of the communications of Columbia University and spent a couple of decades studying the issues then as a member of the staff in the un mission, state department, and als
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