Tom Kalil on the Mobile Revolution and Innovation

I was over at the Newseum last week for a conversation hosted by our friends at Mobile Future. The discussion centered around how we can support innovation and investment in the mobile industry with smart policy. The key talk came from Tom Kalil, Deputy Director of the White House Office on Science and Technology Policy, who, as I'm sure you recall, wrote a paper for our affiliate the New Policy Institute last year called Harnessing the Mobile Revolution.

In his talk, Kalil hit on many of the same arguments he made in his paper last year, about the power of mobile technology to improve health care, enhance economic development, and promote democracy-- particularly in the developing world. He also identifies a few of the biggest challenges we'll face in the coming years. A video of his talk is here-- well worth a watch: