Experts
Alec Ross
Senior Adviser for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Many in the West assume that poor people or racial minorities are somehow not going to understand technology, but this sort of paternalistic view is dead wrong, says Ross. Read More
A conversation with the senior adviser for innovation in the Office of the Secretary of State. Read More
Alec Ross describes how the Obama campaign’s openness to new technology allowed fresh faces to flourish and forever changed politics. Read More
We should not assume that those in poor countries don’t have the ingenuity to use technological tools effectively—and that includes terrorists. Read More
Alec Ross, the Office of the Secretary of State’s senior adviser for innovation, explains how the White House is changing its approach to diplomacy with the advent of new technologies. Read More
About Alec Ross
Alec Ross currently serves at the US State Department as Senior Advisor for Innovation in the office of Secretary Clinton. Ross served previously as the convener for technology, media, and telecommunications policy for Obama for America, and as a member of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team where he focused on technology, innovation, and government reform. In 2000, Ross cofounded One Economy, a non-profit, three-person basement operation which, until 2008, he helped lead and grow to a global organization that connects low-income people to the tools of the digital age. Ross began his career as a Teach for America volunteer in Baltimore.