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title: "Public Briefing: Designing a Digital Future"
date: "2010-12-16"
issues: ["Digital Government"]
authors: ["Robert D. Atkinson"]
canonical_url: "https://itif.org/events/2010/12/16/public-briefing-designing-digital-future/"
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# Public Briefing: Designing a Digital Future


At a public briefing, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released the report, [Designing a Digital Future: Federally Funded Research and Development in Networking and Information Technology](https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-nitrd-report-2010.pdf), which assesses the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program (NITRD).

[The event](http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/nitrd/video/) is moderated by Aneesh Chopra, Federal Chief Technology Officer, and features opening remarks by Vivek Kundra, Federal Chief Information Officer. The report is summarized by the co-chairs of PCAST's NITRD working group. ITIF President Rob Atkinson and Tom Leighton, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, provide comments on the report.

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*Source: Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)*
*URL: https://itif.org/events/2010/12/16/public-briefing-designing-digital-future/*