anthony vinci, richard antliff and nicole turner lee. anthony vinci is currently the chief technology officer at the national geo spatial intelligence agency, and i never miss the opportunity to thank your agency for the terrific support they've provided to us in plays like afghanistan, iraq and other places. thank you for that. anthony has a long track record of success as nga, serving as associate director of capabilities and director of plan ns and perhaps prior to his current roll and has been central to developing the agency's vital public/private partnership efforts. i think he will talk about that as we go on. rich antcliff is special assistant to the associate administrator of space technology at the national aeronautics and space administration or nasa. prior to his current role, rich served in a variety of top positions at nasa. most recently was nasa langley research centers office of strategic analysis, communications and business development leader as well as a chief technologist at the entire center. nicole turner lee is a

. >>> nicole turner lee is a fellow at brookings and the center for technology within government studies and research program in her research focuses on public policy designed to enable equitable access to technology across the united states. she is also an expert at the intersection of race, wealth and technology and comes to brookings after most recently serving as the vice president and chief resource and policy officer of the multicultural media, telecom and internet counsel and vice president and first director of the media and technology institute for political and economic studies, we have three terrific panelists here and i am honored to introduce this and guide the discussion, we will be here for about an hour, for the first 30 minutes i will offer some questions to the panelists and for the second 30 minutes we will go out to you. i do not normally ask our panelists to do introductory remarks, but the first question i will also go to all three of the panelists, if they choose to make an introductory remark they are most welcome to do so. let me go to the first question, this is

and nicole turner lee is a fellow here brookings innocent for technology innovation within the governance studies research program and a resurgent brookings focuses on public policy, designed to enable equitable access to technology across the united states. she's also an expert at the intersection of race, wealth and technology and comes to brookings after most recent survey as a vice president and chief research and policy officer of the multicultural media telecom and internet council and vice president and first director of the media and technology institute at the joint center for political and economic studies. we have three terrific panelists this morning, ladies and gentlemen, and i'm honored to energy spent at to guide this discussion. we will be here for about an hour for the first 30 minutes i will offer some questions to the panelists and the second half hour we'll go out to you. i don't normally ask our paddles to do introductory marks, but, of course, in the first question that i asked which would go to all three of the panels if they choose to make it introductory remark th

i would also like to welcome back the cold turner lee who is a fellow at brookings. doctor nicole turner lee contributor to brookings tech tank and previously vice president and chief research and policy officer at the multicultural media telecom council and in that role she led the design implementation of their research policy and advocacy agenda. prior to that, she was vice president and first director of media technology institute at the center-- joint center for political economic studies and so we are delighted to have you back as well, nicole are just a little bit about the format for this all-star panel. each panelist will kick things off with a opening remark going about five minutes and we ask you to keep that to five minutes or the free state foundation panel buzzer will go off. after that time we will give the panelists, if they wish, a moment or two to respond to anything they hear. following that, we will have some question time here on the panel. i will direct some questions to our all-star panelists and following that we will open it up to the audience for question

nicole turner-lee. >> all right. last but certainly not least. so i want to thank randy for having me here. i want to thank my distinguished panelists for involving me in this conversation. glad to be up here as a friend and person who has spoken at free state. i'm going to talk a little bit about people. and what the conversation is about in terms of connecting american and closing the digital divide. my perspective on that. what we know today is that internet use has rapidly increased. that's a fact. many of us in this room who were in the debate ten years ago remember the time when we were in single digit broad band adoption and penetration, and as james said, we're seeing more and more people getting online because the infrastructure is becoming more readily available. out of that positive trajectory, however, when we look at the digital divide, there's about 11% of americans that don't have access. they tend to be older americans, pew reports that people over the age of 65 don't have internet access, they tend to have less than a high school

mike cody, marion wright adelman, bernard lafayette, diane nash, newsome, nicole porter, tammy sawyer, kobe smith, elaine lee turner and applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, can you hear me in the back? i still have a dream. it is a dream deeply rooted in the american dream. i have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the meaning of its creed. we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are self-evident, that all men are created -- [ cheers and applause ] i have a dream that one day sons of former slaves and sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. i have a dream. >> dr. king told me in his dream one day this nation will live out its creed. do what you say and you say what you mean. justice for all, for all liberty. we know freedom ain't free. it don't sacrifice, you have to pay a price. king lost his life. commitment and vision, and people that's willing to defend their children to live in positions, live better than how we live. we gonna sit in at lunch. we're going to boycott those buses and walk with the head up. look, i'm raising a s