Studying the Global Information Economy. Our mission is to produce independent, rigorous research and sponsor educational programs on economics and tech policy.

Washington, DC
Joined May 2010
⛰️TPI Aspen Forum 2028!! Save the Date!⛰️ Due to the closure of Aspen airport from Apr-Nov 2027, TPI Aspen Forum will resume in summer 2028. To get email updates directly in your inbox from us, be sure to sign up for the newsletter! bit.ly/TPIsignup #tpiaspen
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Happening now, tune in to the livestream! AEI @AEItech "Cuba the Day After: Building the Infrastructure," youtube.com/watch?v=cQUlCHV7… @scottwallsten
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Panelists: Ted Kury, Director of Energy Studies, University of Florida, Public Utility Research Center Alberto Rojas, Senior Emerging Markets Strategist, UBS, Scott Wallsten, President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute, Moderator: Mark Jamison, Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
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TOMORROW @ 2PM ET Join @AEI for “Cuba the Day After: Building the Infrastructure,” featuring a fireside chat with Juan Belt and @drj_policy, followed by a panel with Ted Kury, Alberto Rojas, and @scottwallsten. Attend in person or watch online. RSVP: aei.org/events/cuba-the-day-…
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🚨Upcoming Event🚨 Tomorrow a 2 PM ET, TPI President Scott Wallsten will speak on a panel hosted by AEI @AEItech on "Cuba the Day After: Building the Infrastructure," register to attend in-person or online today! aei.org/events/cuba-the-day-…
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🚨New TPI Blog Post🚨 "AI Can Produce Research. Who Will Produce Researchers?" by Scott Wallsten. Read it here! techpolicyinstitute.org/publ…
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🚨TPI Blog Post!🚨 "What I Learned Running a Hundred-Page Empirical Study With AI" by Scott Wallsten, techpolicyinstitute.org/publ… The "Already Being Built" empirical study is here -> techpolicyinstitute.org/wp-c… Join the TPI email list here --> bit.ly/TPIsignup
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🚨New TPI Study🚨 A new study by Scott Wallsten, president of the Technology Policy Institute, finds that most rural broadband subsidies paid for service that was already on its way. In "Already Being Built: What Rural Broadband Subsidies Paid For, 2018 to 2025," Wallsten examines six programs -- FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, Connect America Fund Phase II auction, and Enhanced A-CAM offer to rural telephone companies, Treasury’s Capital Projects Fund, Wisconsin’s Broadband Expansion Grant Program, and New York’s New NY Broadband Program. He compares the areas each one funded with similar unfunded areas through December 2025. Subsidized areas gained service faster, but the unfunded areas kept gaining too, so the subsidies mostly bought earlier service rather than service that would never have arrived. Read the full paper here! techpolicyinstitute.org/wp-c…
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🚨Supreme Court Review: A Recap🚨 TPI Aspen Discussion: “The Supreme Court in an Era of Political Polarization” panel takeaways are available on our TPI mailing list. Join the list here visitor.r20.constantcontact.… and check out the takeaways and watch the panel video here: youtube.com/watch?v=CUxxDc0H…
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TPI’s Sarah Lam presented research on tribalgeo.com and the Tribal Lands Broadband Databook to the Internet Society yesterday, check out the agenda here! pulse.internetsociety.org/en… and download the report here Broadband Infrastructure in Tribal Areas (2015–2025): The 2026 TPI Tribal Lands Broadband Databook papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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🚨AI Finds the Flaws. Can We Fix Them Fast Enough?🚨 TPI Aspen Discussion Recap: “What Are Cybersecurity's Hardest Problems?” discussed topics in the news today. Check out the takeaways and watch the panel video here: youtube.com/watch?v=7nIyycdm…
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On Al Jazeera Arabic TV with Hashem Ahl Bara yesterday to talk about AI risk concerns from frontier labs and the release of new models and future applications. Full clip here! youtu.be/zOg97V1pBR0?t=2561&…
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Technology Policy Institute (TPI) retweeted
🌊New Summer Poolside Chat! Join @sarahecon @techpolicyinst and Marcela Gomez, @PittTweet as they discuss the EU Space Act and Sarah’s latest research on space-based data providers. 🎬 Watch now! youtu.be/_BpSOTiMYcsi=9c5Knm… #TPRC54 #SpacePolicy
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⏯️ TPI Aspen Forum 2026 Full Video Available! ⏯️ What Are Cybersecurity's Hardest Problems? with Elizabeth Chernow, Katerina Megas, Alan Raul, Ari Schwartz, Shane Tews #tpiaspen @ShaneTews @acraul @KonnectedKat Watch it now --> youtube.com/watch?v=7nIyycdm…
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🏔️TPI Aspen 2026 News🏔️ "US FTC Probing YouTube Over Social Media Policies," by Leah Nylen and Josh Sisco, "'Whatever your policies are, you have to follow them. You can’t present one form of policy to consumers when they’re deciding whether to use your platform and then have a completely different one in practice,' Ferguson said at a public appearance in Aspen, Colorado. 'We are going to examine to make sure that companies that make representations about their speech policies online are living up to them,' he said, without naming specific companies." #tpiaspen bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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🚀 New TPI Paper on the EU Space Act 🚀 "Space-Based Data Providers in the EU and U.S.," asks: "Can the EU Space Act streamline European space licensing without imposing broad new compliance burdens on firms outside Europe? This paper examines the March 2026 Compromise Text and its legal context to answer this question." @sarahecon Read it here! --> techpolicyinstitute.org/wp-c…
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⏯️ TPI Aspen Forum 2026 Full Video Available! ⏯️ Does AI Change the Economics of Telecom? with Harold Feld, Melissa Mann, Giulia McHenry, Mark Walker, Kelcee Griffis #tpiaspen @haroldfeld @KelceeGriffis @mark_walker31 Watch it now --> youtube.com/watch?v=S1BECSMZ…
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