I recently attended and participated in the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Summit in Aspen, Colorado.

The Summit panel discussion topics included new debates about intermediary liability on the Internet, online behavioral advertising, marketing and privacy, and next generation network policy.   In addition, there was a fascinating panel discussion about communications and information policy with government officials from Mexico, Germany, Japan and Spain.  Ambassador David Gross (US Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy with the U.S. Department of State) served as moderator for the session.

I spoke at one of the program's working dinners, addressing "Kids, Media and Marketing:  Child Safety and Privacy in a Web 2.0 World."  This working dinner discussion, moderated by PFF's Adam Thierer, focused on legislative and regulatory proposals that would regulate various types of media content, platforms, or forms of online communications and commerce in response to child safety and privacy concerns.  The lively off-the-record discussion also included remarks from several congressional staff, as well as representatives from Microsoft, MySpace.com, and the Family Online Safety Institute.

I spoke about the results of my online safety survey conducted a few months ago,, highlighting the generational differences regarding safety and the respondents overwhelming concern about protecting personal privacy.

Overall, the Summit provided me with some thoughtful new views on communications policy issues both in the U.S. and abroad, current policy debates, as well as the issues we need to consider in the future.