Advisory Services: Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy



CAS Advisory Services URL: <http://services.advancedstudies.info/> Policy Advisory The Center provides independent advice and research services to senior policy-makers on information, communication, and technology issues, particularly in areas (1) where information and technology policy for national security, domestic security, or law enforcement intersects with private individual interests (including civil liberties and privacy issues) or with private economic or market interests (including infrastructure protection issues); or (2) where information or technology policy for commerce, trade, finance or economics intersects with national or global security interests. See Research. Corporate Advisory The Center provides corporate advisory services to C-level decision-makers in the private sector on complex policy, market, and strategic business opportunities and challenges resulting from information, communication, and technology development and policy as well as from national and global security policies. See Research. Security Advisory The Center focuses on the broad area of security, information, and world economic and political affairs, including how digital technologies challenge existing constructs of social, economic, legal, political, and policy frameworks and existing methods of resource allocation and control. See Research. Related Research Projects Global Information Society Project <www.global-info-society.org> Program on Law Enforcement and National Security in the Information Age <www.plensia.org> Program on Telecommunications and Spectrum Policy <www.telecom-program.org> Program on Information Operations, Information Assurance, and Operational Resilience <www.information-warfare.info> Program on Intellectual Property and Trade Issues <www.IP-program.org> Program on Information Technology as Agent of Change in Environmental and Energy Policy <www.agent-of-change.org> Program on Intelligence Informatics <www.intel-informatics.info>

Recent Events:

Kim Taipale discussed Predictive Markets, Information and Risk at Collective Intelligence II, Highlands Forum (OSD), Phoenix, AZ (Oct. 26-28, 2008).

Kim Taipale discussed Ambiguity vs. Explicit Declaration at Cyber Deterrence, National Defense University, Wash., DC (Oct. 20-21, 2008).

Kim Taipale appeared on Digital Age with James Goodale to discuss the Russian Cyber Attacks on Georgia (WNYE-PBS, Sept. 28, 2009) (Play Video).

Kim Taipale discussed The Impact of Globalization on Cyber Security and Human Security at the Third Annual Global Creative Leadership Summit, New York, NY (Sep. 21-23, 2008).

Kim Taipale participated in Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing: Implications for Social Interaction, Governance and Money, Seventeenth Annual Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology (Jul. 29-Aug. 1).

Kim Taipale appeared on On Point: Privacy in the Electronic Workplace, National Public Radio (NPR) (Jul. 3, 2008) (Windows Media) (RealAudio).

Kim Taipale discussed Key Cyberspace Policy Issues, Security Policy and Crisis Management Program, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Washington, DC (Jun. 20, 2008).

Kim Taipale presented A Framework for Global Cybersecurity Policy, PTCP, New York, NY (May 15, 2008).

Kim Taipale participated in Workshop for Real ID Alternative, Berkman Center on Internet and Society, Harvard Law School (May 13, 2008).

Kim Taipale presented Ambiguity in Context at Deterrence in an Information Setting, Highlands Forum XXXIV (OSD), Wye River, MD (Apr. 27-29, 2008).

Kim Taipale appears on the PBS program Nanotechnology: Privacy and Security (PBS April 2008).

Kim Taipale presented The High Cs? at New Spectrum of Engagement: Collaboration, Competition, and Conflict, Highlands Forum (OSD), Wye River, MD (Apr. 6-8, 2008).

Kim Taipale participated in Deterrence in an Information Setting, Enrichment Session, Highlands Forum (OSD), Washington, DC (Mar. 10, 2008).

Kim Taipale discussed Are the Telecoms Complicit in Wiretapping? as part of Justice Talking: The Tension Between Security and Liberty in the War on Terror on National Public Radio (NPR) (Mar. 3, 2008). (audio available)

Kim Taipale appeared on Digital Age with James Goodale to discuss Encryption and Information Security (WNYE-PBS, Jan. 16, 2008) (View video - 28 min.).

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