Communications, Technology and Interstate Commerce Committee
Fall Forum, December 9, 2004, 1:15 pm-3:00 pm
The Westin Savannah Harbor Resort & Spa, Savannah, Georgia
BIOGRAPHIES
WHEN EVERYDAY OBJECTS BECOME INTERACTIVE– RADIO FREQUENCY IDS (RFIDs)
Rob Atkinson
Vice President and Director, Technology & New Economy Project
Progressive Policy Institute
600 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20003
Phone: 202-547-0001
ratkinson@dlcppi.org
Rob Atkinson is vice president of the Progressive Policy Institute and director of PPI's Technology & New Economy Project. He is the author of the New Economy Index series which looks at the impact of the New Economy on the U.S., state and metropolitan economies. While at PPI he has written groundbreaking reports on a wide range of technology issues, including modernizing the state ID system; the role of IT in homeland defense; Internet taxation, privacy, and spam; global e-commerce; digital government; and middleman opposition to e-commerce. He is also author of the forthcoming book, "The Past and Future of America's Economy: How Waves of Innovation Drive Cycles of Growth" (Edward Elgar). Previously Dr. Atkinson served as executive director of the Rhode Island Economic Policy Council and as project director at the former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. He is a board member or advisory council member of the Alliance for Public Technology, Information Policy Institute, Internet Education Foundation, NanoBusiness Alliance, NetChoice Coalition, New Millennium Research Council and University of Oregon Institute for Policy Research and Innovation. He also serves on the advisory panel to Americans for Computer Privacy, and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Electronic Government. Dr. Atkinson was appointed by President Clinton to the Commission on Workers, Communities, and Economic Change in the New Economy. He is also a member of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age. He received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989.
Representative David L. Hogue
318 State Capitol
Salt Lake City, UT 84114
Phone: 801-538-1029
dhogue@utah.gov
Representative Hogue will be serving his fifth term in the Utah House beginning in January. He currently serves as a chairman of the Executive Offices and Criminal Justice Appropriations Subcommittee, and as a member of the Rules Committee, Education Committee, Political Subdivision Committee, Education Interim Committee, and the Judiciary Interim Committee. During his last legislative session he successfully introduced the “Radio Frequency Right to Know Act” which passed the House but died in the Senate after session time expired. This year legislation will be reintroduced in Utah.
Cédric Laurant
Policy Counsel
Electronic Privacy Information Center
1718 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: 202-483-1140 x114
chlaurant@epic.org
Cédric Laurant is Policy Counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). He concentrates on international privacy issues and comparative policy and legal aspects of European and US privacy regimes. Mr. Laurant’s recent work has focused on the profiling of air travelers, video surveillance, radio frequency identification technologies, the negotiation of the APEC Privacy Guidelines, governmental electronic surveillance and transborder data flows in the European Union and the United States, European telecommunications and privacy laws, the Council of Europe Cyber-crime Convention, and Canada's new anti-terrorism legislation. He has testified before Congress on radio frequency identification technologies. He is the editor of Privacy and Human Rights 2003 and 2004, EPIC’s international survey of privacy laws and developments in the world. He also coordinates EPIC's actions within two international coalitions: the Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC) and the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD). Prior to his arrival at EPIC, Cédric worked with the Center for Democracy and Technology (1999) and Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman (2000). Outside of EPIC, he is a co-founder of WebLegalis, a Belgian consulting firm in Internet law. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, the American Bar Association and the Community Service Committee of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. Cédric holds a licence en droit (J.D.) from the University of Louvain (Belgium), a Master of Laws from Columbia University School of Law (New York), a European Master of Arts in Science, Technology and Society (London), and a Diploma in Print and Broadcast Journalism (Brussels).
Delegate Joe T. May
PO Box 406
Richmond, VA 23218
Phone: 804-698-1033
del_may@house.state.va.us
Delegate Joe May is currently serving his fifth term in the Virginia House of Delegates. He is chairman of the Science and Technology Committee, the Joint Commission on Technology and Science, and the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce and Technology. He has sponsored numerous technology and commerce based laws. He was a key participant in Governor Warner's recently enacted IT reform bill. In September 2000, he received the Governor's Legislative Leadership Award in Technology. Delegate May currently serves as Vice Chair of NCSL's Communications, Technology and Interstate Commerce Standing Committee, and he is Vice Chair of the new Foundation for State Legislatures (FSL) Partnership Project on Identity Security. Delegate May, a member of the Virginia Society of Professional Engineers who holds 18 patents, is founder and CEO of the Virginia based electronic engineering and manufacturing firm, EIT. In 2001 he received the Greater Washington Area "Engineer of the Year Award" and was named "Virginia Biotechnology Legislator of the Year." Delegate May is a graduate of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Barry Steinhardt
Director, Technology and Liberty Program
ACLU
125 Broad Street, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10004
Phone: 212-549-2508
bsteinhardt@aclu.org
Barry Steinhardt served as Associate Director of the American Civil Liberties Union for the past 10 years. He was recently named as inaugural Director of the ACLU's Program on Technology and Liberty. He was a co-founder of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC), the world's first international coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations concerned with the rights of Internet users to privacy and free expression. He is a member of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Census and the Blue Ribbon Panel on Genetics of the National Conference of State Legislatures. He was a member of the U.S. delegation to the recent G-8 Government and Private Sector Tokyo conference on Cyber Crime. Steinhardt has spoken and written widely on privacy and information technology issues to audiences ranging from the National Conference of State Legislatures, to the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence, to the Hoover Institute, to the UNESCO Conference on Intellectual Property. He has written on privacy issues and free expression issues in a variety of periodicals ranging from USA Today to the Employment Testing Law and Policy Reporter, to the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal. As Associate Director, Mr. Steinhardt was responsible for providing structural and managerial assistance to ACLU's 51 affiliates and oversaw the ACLU's offices in Puerto Rico, the Dakotas and Wyoming. Mr. Steinhardt previously served as Executive Director of the Vermont and Pennsylvania Affiliates of the ACLU. He is a 1978 graduate of the Northeastern University School of Law.
Joseph Tasker, Jr.
Senior Vice President for Government Affairs and General Counsel
Information Technology Association of America
1401 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1100
Arlington, VA 22209
Phone: 703-522-5055
jtasker@itaa.org
Joe Tasker is Senior Vice President for Government Affairs and General Counsel of the Information Technology Association of America. He is responsible for the Association’s government affairs efforts, which extend to the United States Congress and Administration, as well as to Europe and the rest of the world. A published author, he is a recognized leader in the field of electronic commerce policy law and regulation and international trade in information. In addition to serving as chairman of a variety of industry-wide coalitions involving technology and trade policy, he has lectured at the Kennedy School of Government (international trade in information), the International Law Institute (the WTO and electronic commerce), and the US Foreign and Commercial Service (international aspects of intellectual property law; a refresher for USFCS officer training). Before coming to ITAA, he led the Government Affairs Office of Compaq Computer Corporation in Washington, where he served as Associate General Counsel and Vice President for Worldwide Government Affairs for almost ten years. He served as a member of ISAC-5, the electronics industry sector advisory council to United States trade negotiators, and was chairman of the Coalition for an Information Technology Agreement, advocating elimination of customs tariffs on high tech trade. Prior to joining Compaq, Mr. Tasker was a partner in a law firm in Washington, DC, where he practiced international trade, antitrust and intellectual property law. He started his legal career in 1975 as a merger trial attorney at the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition and as a member of the Competition Bureau Director’s policy staff. Mr. Tasker is a graduate of the George Washington University National Law Center and the University of Oklahoma.
Richard J. Varn, President
RJV Consulting
620 42nd St
Des Moines, IA 50312-2732
Phone: 515- 255-3650
rjmvarn@msn.com
Richard J. Varn is President and founder of RJV Consulting. His firm, founded in 1988, serves public and private sector clients and specializes in information technology, business strategy, innovation, and public policy consulting. He is a Senior Fellow with the Center for Digital Government, a Technology Policy Advisor to the National Retail Federation, and serves on the Board of Trustees for the Educational Testing Service. He is currently engaged as the Chief Technology Officer for the Business Gateway, a federal initiative to implement enterprise e-forms solutions and streamline regulatory processes. Mr. Varn’s first career was in public service. He began in 1981 as a state legislative staff person. He went on to win elected office and served as a State Representative for four years and as a State Senator for eight years. During that time, he was twice elected Majority Whip, created and chaired the first Communications and Information Policy Committee, and chaired the Education Appropriations, Human Services Appropriations, and Judiciary Committees. He was the first Iowa legislator to install and use a computer in the Iowa legislative chambers. He left the legislature in 1994 to teach and be Director of Telecommunications and IT Production Services at the University of Northern Iowa. There he led a successful reorganization of the technology departments and created numerous innovative e-learning programs. He returned to state government in 1999 to create the state’s first Information Technology Department, and he served as its first Director and as the state's first CIO. Mr. Varn returned to full-time consulting in 2003. Mr. Varn has received numerous awards and recognitions for his public service. He was named twice to the Federal 100, he received the National Association of State Chief Information Officers Outstanding Achievement Award in the Field of Information Technology for Iowa's Return on Investment Program, and he received the Award for Outstanding Support for Distance Learning from the Iowa Distance Learning Association. His degrees and academic honors include membership in Phi Beta Kappa and numerous other honor societies, a B. A. with honors in Political Science, and a Juris Doctorate, with distinction, from the University of Iowa.
ID SYSTEMS: BALANCING SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN A DIGITAL AGE
Rob Atkinson
Vice President and Director, Technology & New Economy Project
Progressive Policy Institute
600 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20003
Phone: 202-547-0001
ratkinson@dlcppi.org
Rob Atkinson is vice president of the Progressive Policy Institute and director of PPI's Technology & New Economy Project. He is the author of the New Economy Index series which looks at the impact of the New Economy on the U.S., state and metropolitan economies. While at PPI he has written groundbreaking reports on a wide range of technology issues, including modernizing the state ID system; the role of IT in homeland defense; Internet taxation, privacy, and spam; global e-commerce; digital government; and middleman opposition to e-commerce. He is also author of the forthcoming book, "The Past and Future of America's Economy: How Waves of Innovation Drive Cycles of Growth" (Edward Elgar). Previously Dr. Atkinson served as executive director of the Rhode Island Economic Policy Council and as project director at the former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. He is a board member or advisory council member of the Alliance for Public Technology, Information Policy Institute, Internet Education Foundation, NanoBusiness Alliance, NetChoice Coalition, New Millennium Research Council and University of Oregon Institute for Policy Research and Innovation. He also serves on the advisory panel to Americans for Computer Privacy, and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Electronic Government. Dr. Atkinson was appointed by President Clinton to the Commission on Workers, Communities, and Economic Change in the New Economy. He is also a member of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age. He received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989.
Steve R. Hutchens, CISSP
Global Lead, Homeland Security
EDS
13600 EDS Drive
Herndon, VA 20171
Phone: 703-742-2136
steve.hutchens@eds.com
Steve Hutchens is Global Leader for Homeland Security in EDS’ Global Government Industry. He supports EDS sales to clients and industry knowledge for homeland security solutions and services–worldwide. He has more than 27 years of experience in information systems, communications, technology and security. Mr. Hutchens is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and an adjunct faculty for the University of Virginia’s Information Security Certification program.
The Honorable Steve Kelley
State Senator
75 Constitution Avenue
205 State Capitol
St. Paul, MN 55155
Phone: 651-297-8065
Sen.steve.kelley@senate.mn
Elected to the Minnesota Senate in 1996, Senator Kelley currently chairs the Senate Education Committee and is vice-chair of the Senate Telecommunications, Commerce and Utilities Committee. He also is Vice Chair of the Higher Education Budget Division. Senator Kelley has served on the Advisory Council on the Roles and Responsibilities of Local Government, the Intergovernmental Information Systems Advisory Council, the Task Force on Electronic Filing of Real Estate Documents, and the Telecommunications Services Study Working Group. From 1997-2000, Senator Kelley chaired the Senate’s Ad Hoc Committee on Information Technology. Senator Kelley is a member of the NCSL Executive Committee. In addition, he currently chairs the NCSL Foundation for State Legislatures Partnership Project on Identity Security and co-chairs the NCSL Task Force on No Child Left Behind. From 2001-2003, he chaired NCSL's standing committee which addressed Internet, telecommunications and information technology issues. Senator Kelley is Of Counsel at Mackall Crounse & Moore PLC, a Minneapolis law firm. He received his B.A. from Williams College and his J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law.
Reed Stager
Vice President, Corporate Licensing, Marketing and Public Policy
Digimarc
9405 S.W. Gemini
Beaverton, OR 97008
Phone: 503-469-4684
rstager@digimarc.com
Reed Stager is the Vice President responsible for public policy at Digimarc. In this role, Mr. Stager manages state, federal and international policy issues related to the provision of secure identification systems. Mr. Stager supports Digimarc’s current clients in 32 states, the District of Columbia, and more than 20 countries who issue more than 60 million IDs per year. He is chairman of the Government Affairs Committee of the Document Security Alliance (DSA) which is a public-private partnership of 15 federal agencies and more than 70 companies focused on improving document security. Mr. Stager also serves as a board member to RAINS (Regional Alliance for Infrastructure and Network Security). Mr. Stager, who has more than 20 years of executive and management experience in high technology and security companies, holds an M.B.A. from Portland State University and a B.S. in Business from Lewis and Clark College.
Barry Steinhardt
Director, Technology and Liberty Program
ACLU
125 Broad Street, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10004
Phone: 212-549-2508
bsteinhardt@aclu.org
Barry Steinhardt served as Associate Director of the American Civil Liberties Union for the past 10 years. He was recently named as inaugural Director of the ACLU's Program on Technology and Liberty. He was a co-founder of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC), the world's first international coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations concerned with the rights of Internet users to privacy and free expression. He is a member of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Census and the Blue Ribbon Panel on Genetics of the National Conference of State Legislatures. He was a member of the U.S. delegation to the recent G-8 Government and Private Sector Tokyo conference on Cyber Crime. Mr. Steinhardt has spoken and written widely on privacy and information technology issues to audiences ranging from the National Conference of State Legislatures, to the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence, to the Hoover Institute, to the UNESCO Conference on Intellectual Property. He has written on privacy issues and free expression issues in a variety of periodicals ranging from USA Today to the Employment Testing Law and Policy Reporter, to the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal. As Associate Director, Mr. Steinhardt was responsible for providing structural and managerial assistance to ACLU's 51 affiliates and oversaw the ACLU's offices in Puerto Rico, the Dakotas and Wyoming. Mr. Steinhardt previously served as Executive Director of the Vermont and Pennsylvania Affiliates of the ACLU. He is a 1978 graduate of the Northeastern University School of Law.
Wireless, VoIP, Cable, POTS…Communications Convergence
Kathryn C. Brown, Senior Vice President
Public Policy Development and Corporate Social Responsibility
Verizon Communications
Washington, DC
Kathryn C. Brown is senior vice president for Public Policy Development and Corporate Social Responsibility, a position she has held since May 2004. She is responsible for policy development and issue management, public policy messaging, strategic alliances and public affairs programs, including Verizon Reads. Prior to her current assignment, Ms. Brown was senior vice president in Public Policy Development & International Government Relations and responsible for federal, state and international public policy development and international government relations for Verizon. In that role she developed public policy positions and was responsible for project management on emerging domestic and international issues. Ms. Brown received her J.D., summa cum laude, from Syracuse University College of Law and her B.A. from Marist College. She is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia.
Tony Clark, President
North Dakota Public Service Commission
600 E. Boulevard, Department 408
Bismarck, ND 58505-0480
Phones: 701-328-2400
tclark@state.nd.us
North Dakotans elected Tony Clark to a six-year term on the Public Service Commission in November 2000. He currently serves as President of the Commission. Prior to his election he was state Labor Commissioner, serving in the administration of former Governor Ed Schafer. Tony is a former two-term state legislator; he represented the Fargo area in the House of Representatives from 1994-1997. Commissioner Clark is a member of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and the Mid-America Regulatory Commissioners. He is a member of the NARUC Committee on Telecommunications and is chairman of the policy subcommittee on federal regulation. He also serves as chairman of the 14-state Qwest Regional Oversight Committee, a conference of state regulators and staff in the region where Qwest is the dominant local telephone company. Commissioner Clark holds PSC portfolios in the areas of telecommunications, weights and measures, grain elevators and railroads. The Council of State Governments named him a Toll Fellow in 1998 for his service to state government. Commissioner Clark is a graduate of the Program for Emerging Political Leaders at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business. He holds bachelor’s degrees from North Dakota State University and a master’s degree in public administration from the University of North Dakota.
Charles M. Davidson, Commissioner
Florida Public Service Commission
2540 Shumard Oak Blvd.
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0850
Phone: 850-413-6040
Davidson@psc.state.fl.us
Governor Jeb Bush appointed Charles Davidson to the Florida Public Service Commission for a four-year term ending January 2007. Prior to his appointment, Commissioner Davidson served as the Executive Director of Florida's Information Technology Taskforce in the governor’s office. In that role, he was responsible for developing public policies to help ensure that Florida maintains progressive economic development processes and rational regulatory regimes. In 2001, Davidson was recruited by the Florida House of Representatives to launch the state’s first Committee on Information Technology. From 1993 to 1999, Commissioner Davidson was an attorney resident in the New York Office of Baker & McKenzie, the world's largest law firm. While in private practice, he was responsible for an array of regulatory, commercial, international, and technology matters in the United States and abroad. Commissioner Davidson speaks frequently on technology and public policy issues. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate, Commissioner Davidson holds a Masters of Law in Trade Regulation from New York University. He also holds a Masters in International Business from Columbia University, and he received his baccalaureate and juris doctorate degrees from the University of Florida, where he served as a fellowship instructor at the College of Law.
The Honorable Steve Kelley
State Senator
75 Constitution Avenue
205 State Capitol
St. Paul, MN 55155
Phone: 651-297-8065
Sen.steve.kelley@senate.mn
Elected to the Minnesota Senate in 1996, Senator Kelley currently chairs the Senate Education Committee and is vice-chair of the Senate Telecommunications, Commerce and Utilities Committee. He also is Vice Chair of the Higher Education Budget Division. Senator Kelley has served on the Advisory Council on the Roles and Responsibilities of Local Government, the Intergovernmental Information Systems Advisory Council, the Task Force on Electronic Filing of Real Estate Documents, and the Telecommunications Services Study Working Group. From 1997-2000, Senator Kelley chaired the Senate’s Ad Hoc Committee on Information Technology. Senator Kelley is a member of the NCSL Executive Committee. In addition, he currently chairs the NCSL Foundation for State Legislatures Partnership Project on Identity Security and co-chairs the NCSL Task Force on No Child Left Behind. From 2001-2003, he chaired NCSL's standing committee which addressed Internet, telecommunications and information technology issues. Senator Kelley is Of Counsel at Mackall Crounse & Moore PLC, a Minneapolis law firm. He received his B.A. from Williams College and his J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law.
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