Dominique Lazanski to Chair Discussion on Internet and Government

Dominique Lazanski

Dominique Lazanski wrote a blog post yesterday on the Institute of Economic Affairs blog. 

It included the following paragraph:  

“The US is the largest digital economy in the world. Originally, the Internet was created by the US Army, though similar plans were around in the private sector. Since its early development, the US digital economy has grown over time due to private entrepreneurship and commercial competition of content creators, ISPs, and infrastructure builders and not through planned government intervention. Digital Britain is a government report promoting a planned digital economy as fostered and controlled by the government. It is a great concern to leave the future of the UK’s digital economy to MPs and ministers and not to the businessmen and entrepreneurs of the digital economy.  How else will the spread of the digital economy occur?  Not by central planning and men who are too wrapped up in the government to see the totality of the digital society outside of Westminster.”

Needless to say, she holds strong opinions.  Dominique is a graduate of Cornell, the LSE and grew up in Silicon Valley.  At G2010 she’ll chair a discussion called “Government and the Internet: Helping or Meddling” – we think it will be an interesting discussion…