Public Data hosts the Annual IP3 Awards to rejoice the work of those that have made important contributions within the three areas of IP: Mental Property, Info Coverage, and Web Protocol. The awards assist champion the advocates working diligently on behalf of the general public curiosity to assist everybody join and talk. Study extra about previous recipients of the Annual IP3 Awards.
In 2024, we offered the Info Coverage Award to Caitriona Fitzgerald, Deputy Director on the Digital Privateness Info Middle, the place she supplies experience to advance robust privateness and synthetic intelligence governance legal guidelines at each the state and federal stage. She has testified earlier than Congress and state legislatures. In 2023, she was named a Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Regulation College. A member of the Massachusetts Bar, Ms. Fitzgerald graduated from Northeastern College College of Regulation (J.D.) and the State College of New York at Geneseo (B.A., Laptop Science).
We offered the Mental Coverage Award to Jonathan Band, Principal at Coverage Bandwidth. He has helped form the legal guidelines governing mental property and the web by way of a mix of legislative and appellate advocacy. He has represented purchasers with respect to the drafting of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the Cease On-line Piracy Act (SOPA), and different federal and state statutes regarding mental property and the web. He has testified earlier than Congress 10 instances. He has complemented this legislative advocacy by submitting amicus briefs in important circumstances associated to those provisions. Mr. Band has additionally represented purchasers in connection to the Marrakesh Treaty, the Anti-Counterfeiting Commerce Settlement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Settlement, and different worldwide agreements.
We offered the Web Protocol Award to Angela Siefer, Government Director of the Nationwide Digital Inclusion Alliance, the place she leads the digital fairness motion by supporting neighborhood applications and equipping policymakers to behave. Since incomes her grasp’s in sociology from the College of Toledo in 1997, she has labored within the area we now name “digital inclusion.” Beginning with establishing pc labs in underserved areas and managing native digital inclusion applications, Ms. Siefer’s first-hand data led her to seek the advice of for the U.S. Division of Commerce and testify earlier than Congress. In 2015, she noticed that the rising area wanted its personal place to construct finest practices and neighborhood, so she grew to become the founding Government Director of the NDIA.
Lastly, we offered a President’s Award to FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, who believes that communications expertise has the potential to be one of the vital highly effective forces on Earth for selling equality and alternative. To unlock that potential, nevertheless, all Individuals should have entry. From combating web inequality to advocating for variety in employment, entrepreneurship, and media possession, Commissioner Starks fights for insurance policies designed to make sure that fashionable communications expertise empowers everybody by championing the thousands and thousands of Individuals who lack entry to or can not afford dwelling web. He has persistently advocated for broadband deployment that helps rural communities faucet into financial and academic alternatives that is probably not near dwelling, which each encourages younger folks to remain in these rural areas and attracts new residents and employers.
In 2024, we heard from Dallas Harris, Nevada State Senator, as she spoke passionately about her time within the PKTrains fellowship program and the way it outfitted her for her profession. Now celebrating its tenth 12 months, this program has educated dozens of profitable expertise coverage advocates devoted to selling the general public curiosity. View this system to find how and why Public Data fellows make an affect in an period when we have to stability company energy by forcefully representing the general public. You could donate to help this system and assist be sure that extra various voices from a wide range of backgrounds have a seat on the policymaking desk.
We additionally commemorated the work of Sherwin Lee Siy, a pillar of Public Data for almost 10 years and a passionate advocate for the openness of knowledge within the digital period. His openness and enthusiasm as a mentor to younger advocates left an enduring mark throughout your entire area. Please assist us honor Sherwin Lee Siy’s legacy of activism and mentorship by supporting the subsequent technology of coverage advocates by way of an endowed fellowship in his title. With this fellowship, we intend to construct upon Sherwin’s life work and to essentially rework how advocates in our area signify the rising variety inside this nation. You’ll be able to watch our video celebrating the Sherwin Lee Siy Memorial Fund under.
Study extra about previous recipients of the Annual IP3 Awards or attain out to Stephen Bennett, our Director of Improvement and Exterior Affairs, to change into an official sponsor. View our picture album to expertise extra of this momentous occasion.