Improving Tech Expertise for Congress

Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy held a workshop in June 2018 to discuss improving tech and science policy resource services for Congress. Here are some details from the report:

This report summarizes the presentations and reflections of a group convened by Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy in June 2018 to discuss strategies for improving science and technology policy resources for Congress. The workshop considered recent proposals for reestablishing a technology assessment function in Congress, such as reviving the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), or shifting tech assessment responsibilities to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) or Congressional Research Service (CRS). It also considered whether certain aspects of tech assessment can be met by outside groups such as the National Academies. The workshop brought together former OTA staff and leadership, current congressional staffers, academics and policy experts for a two-hour discussion.1

This report's an early step to help the conversation. Many people doing great work on this (in Congress, civil society and academia... started to list, but too great a risk of omission). We hope the report is additive to the debate. Read it here: https://t.co/m8ivZHJuNB

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