{"id":8677,"date":"2017-08-10T09:45:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T17:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/10\/news-2450\/"},"modified":"2017-08-10T09:45:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T17:45:18","slug":"news-2450","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/10\/news-2450\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Are Draft Materials From the White House\u2019s Technology Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Sarah Emerson| Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 17:02:50 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

On June 22, 2017, industry leaders convened at the White House for an exclusive summit. The event, called “American Leadership in Emerging Technology<\/a>,” was the pinnacle of the administration’s Technology Week\u2014an effort<\/a> spearheaded by Jared Kushner, under the banner of his new department, the White House Office of American Innovation.<\/p>\n

Among the Technology Week invitees<\/a> were Apple’s Tim Cook, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, and other tech CEOs. While the week was billed as a public-private sector conclave, those who attended were heavily scrutinized<\/a> for pandering to President Trump while simultaneously opposing<\/a> his political ideologies.<\/p>\n

In light of this, Motherboard submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for Technology Week materials prepared by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), which organized the event. Yesterday, we received a draft invitation list, and a schedule of the event’s “breakout sessions.”<\/p>\n

In total, OSTP refused to provide 27 pages\u2014and only gave us nine\u2014under the FOIA exemption that “inter-agency or intra-agency memorandum or letters” can be withheld from the public.<\/p>\n

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