TechTank
TechTank is a biweekly podcast from The Brookings Institution exploring the most consequential technology issues of our time. From artificial intelligence and racial bias in algorithms, to Big Tech, the future of work, and the digital divide, TechTank takes abstract ideas and makes them accessible. Moderators Dr. Nicol Turner Lee and Darrell West speak with leading technology experts and policymakers to share new data, ideas, and policy solutions to address the challenges of our new digital world.
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- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 120
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Is it time to regulate social media platforms and search engines?
On this week’s episode of the TechTank Podcast, moderator Darrell West, Vice President of Governance
Studies at the Brookings Institution, will discuss if it's time for the Supreme Court to regula…
Technology adoption in Africa: current and future use cases for development
On this episode, host Nicol Turner Lee explores technology adoption in Africa and universal access throughout the continent with guests Yolanda Jinxin Ma, head of Digital Policy and Global Partnershi…
Twitter, Trump, and Online Speech
What will it take to create inclusive AR/VR for a more diverse metaverse?
In this episode of Tech Tank, co-host, Nicol Turner Lee, speaks with Rashawn Ray, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings Institution, and Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the La…
Latino voters, midterm elections, and the effects of misinformation, and disinformation
Latino voters registered and voted in higher numbers in the 2020 presidential election than in prior years, according to a 2021 report, and recent findings from the Pew Research Center count 34.5 mil…
How to improve election security
To protect public integrity and faith our election, it is integral for the United States to work to combat
existing misinformation, protect the safety of election officials, and guarantee that existin…
Can AI Developers Be Incentivized to Debias their Algorithms?
Undersecretary Xochitl Torres-Small on expanding access to rural broadband
On this episode of TechTank, host Nicol Turner Lee is joined by Undersecretary Xochitl Torres Small.
Together, they discuss the administration’s ongoing work to close the urban-rural digital divide, h…
Do you know where your spectrum is? The U.S.’s never- ending quest for more bandwidth
Spectrum policy has been essential in determining how to encourage communications technology
development, while ensuring equitable access. On TechTank, Nicol Turner Lee, Andrew Von Ah, Shane
Tews and K…
The weaponization of information threatens American democracy. What should we do about that?
How does tech policy fall short in protecting people with disabilities?
On TechTank, guest host Samantha Lai is joined by Lydia X.Z. Brown, Alex Engler and Henry Claypool to
discuss how people with disabilities are affected by existing technologies. They investigate issue…
How does the internet facilitate worsening gun violence?
Not a single week of 2022 has passed without multiple mass shootings. 343 people have been killed
and 1,391 injured through July 4th of this year. On TechTank, host Dr. Nicol Turner Lee, Carol Graham …
How do we center equity in the future of telehealth?
Will Americans finally see bipartisan federal privacy legislation?
Exploring the intersection of tech policy and LGBTQ+ rights
This year’s Pride Month comes at a difficult time for LGBTQ+ rights. Over the past year, there have been over 300 anti-LGBTQ bills proposed in at least 28 states, including Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” …
Deciphering the Metaverse
Can policymakers level the playing field in the computer sciences?
What should we do about computer chip shortages?
A conversation on improving the STEM pipeline with UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski