X-Lab anticipates the disruptions and potentially dystopian outcomes of different policy options and aims to help humanity change course through bold policy interventions, privacy-conscious technology development, and novel business models.
For the past seven years Sascha Meinrath and his team at the New America Foundation have made the Open Technology Institute a force for promoting a more open, accessible internet. He has informed internet policy, and built innovative tools, like the...
Sascha Meinrath, director of the Open Technology Institute at the Washington-based New America Foundation think-tank argues that what's needed instead are strong international laws that hold nations accountable for guaranteeing online privacy.
“What a shockingly bad idea. You don’t want government dictating good security practice,” said Sascha Meinrath, director of the X-Lab, a privacy conscious technology group.
FireChat doesn't need the Internet but it is not risk-free.
“The United States lacks meaningful competition in its cellular market sector, which leads to higher cell plan prices than a growing list of other countries,” said Sascha Meinrath, founder of the Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation.
Sascha Meinrath is tired of fighting tech's biggest policy battles from behind. As the founder of the Open Technology Institute, an institution that's been advocating open internet initiatives since 2008, Meinrath in April launched X-Lab...
For the past seven years Sascha Meinrath and his team at the New America Foundation have made the Open Technology Institute a force for promoting a more open, accessible internet. He has informed internet policy, and built innovative tools, like the...
WASHINGTON, DC — Community Internet pioneer and entrepreneurial visionary Sascha Meinrath announced the launch today of X-Lab, an innovative platform to anticipate, develop, and respond to what’s next in tech policy. Recognizing that today’s decisions about how we interact with technology will determine how we live, work, govern, and ...