The Impact of the Internet on Employment: Creating Winners and Dealing with Losers

The Impact of the Internet on Employment: Creating Winners and Dealing with Losers

June 5, 2015

Agenda

8:30AM      Event Registration and Check-In

9:00AM      Welcome: Lorenzo Pupillo, Conference Organizer, Telecom Italia and CITI 

9:05AM      Introduction: Eli Noam, Columbia University, “Is the Internet the solution or the problem?”

9:25AM       The Impact of Technological Change on Jobs

  • What are the net impacts of the Internet on jobs in advanced countries?

    • Which sectors are gaining and which are declining?
    • Changes in jobs profiles and jobs quality
    • Is Europe particularly challenged?

    Moderator: Lorenzo Pupillo, Telecom Italia and CITI

    Panelists:

  • Vincenzo Spiezia, OECD
    • Paolo Naticchioni, Roma TRE University & Giuseppe Ragusa Luiss University
      • Jonathan Liebenau, London School of Economics
      • David Viviano, SAG-AFTRA Labor Union

10:50AM     Coffee Break
11:00AM     Internet economic fundamentals and their impact on the economy 

and distribution

  • A winner-takes-all economy?

    • A hollowing out of the middle class? The pie gets larger but the distribution becomes more unequal?
      • Len Waverman, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University
      • Robert Gordon, Northwestern University
      • Annabelle Gawer, Imperial College (via web)
      • Robert Cohen, Economic Strategy Institute

    Moderator: Mark Stahlman, Center for the Study of Digital Life

12:25PM     Lunch

Lunch Speaker:  Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University (via web): “Sustainable Development and the Digital Economy”

2:00PM     Policies to facilitate structural and social adjustments without slowing innovation

  • Case studies, best practices, and negative examples.
    • Government
      • Company behavior
      • Industry initiative

Moderator Robert C. Atkinson, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information

  • Robert D. Atkinson, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
    • Mario di Loreto, Telecom Italia
    • Richard Clarke, AT&T
    • Eva Klein, McMaster University
    • Bruce Lincoln, Columbia 

3:45PM       Coffee Break

3:55PM       Is the policy system able to keep up with accelerating change ?

  • Moderator: Judith O’Neil, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
    • Raul Katz, Columbia University
      • Hal Singer, Economics Incorporated
      • Michael Nelson, CloudFlare 

5:00PM      Closing Remarks and Reception