October 12, 2022

Move Fast and Fix Things: Journalist Kara Swisher & Civic Entrepreneur Frank McCourt Discuss Technology, Democracy & the Future of the Internet

12:00pm - 1:30pm ET
Healey Family Student Center, Great Room. McCourt School of Public Policy

Kara Swisher (SFS’84), host of the Vox Media and New York Magazine podcast On with Kara Swisher, and Frank McCourt (C’75), founder of Project Liberty and founding donor of the McCourt School of Public Policy, will discuss how technology is impacting democracy and how to repair a broken internet.

Lunch will be provided

Location

McCourt School of Public Policy

About the McCourt Institute

Launched in early 2022 with founding partners Sciences Po in Paris and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the McCourt Institute aims to ensure that digital governance is prioritized in the development of new technology and embedded in the next generation of the web. It supports the goals of Project Liberty, a visionary initiative launched by civic entrepreneur, business leader, and philanthropist Frank McCourt in 2021 to transform how the internet works, create a more equitable digital economy, and develop a new civic architecture for the digital world.

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