Events
Fall 2005
GTISC Distinguished Lecture Series
"An Emerging Ecosystem for Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection of Public Next Generation Networks"
Anthony Michael (Tony) Rutkowski -- Vice-President for Regulatory Affairs within the Communication Services Division at VeriSign, Inc
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
4:00 pm, Tech Square Research Building, Georgia Tech
No registration required, free and open to the public.
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Currently the Vice-President for Regulatory Affairs within the Communication Services Division at VeriSign, Inc. - the leading global provider of trusted infrastructure and identity services for the Internet, telecommunications, and ECommerce sectors. A highly visible and well-known global enterprise strategist, public official, organization leader, consultant, lecturer, and author in both the Internet and telecom worlds - with a career spanning 40 years of diverse positions in the business, public, and education sectors, in many different facets of the computer networking, telecom, publishing, and mass media industries, domestically and internationally. This includes employment with: General Magic, Sprint International, Horizon House, Pan American Engineering, General Electric, Evening News Association, the Federal Communications Commission, the International Telecommunication Union, Cape Canaveral City Council, Internet Society, MIT, and NY Law School, as well as consulting with NGI Associates.
He is an engineer-lawyer who extensively uses and innovates with many of these technologies; and developed a career of following strategically important developments and turning them into business opportunities.
He currently serves President of the Global LI Industry Forum and participates in numerous Lawful Access and Interception forums. He also participates on the advisory boards for Telecommunications Policy and Info magazines.
Over recent years he has participated in such diverse activities a Guest Editor of the IEEE Internet Computing special Millennium Edition, co-producer of the Global Next Generation Internet Conference, and a columnist for Communications Week International; co-founded diverse international organizations: Internet Law and Policy Forum (founding member), and has participated in Internet projects preparing reports by the Aspen Institute, the Rand Corp, the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (Board), Register of Copyrights, the President's Framework for Global Electronic Commerce task force, and the Harvard Kennedy School GII Project. Featured twice in the Washington Post, and listed in the 1996 roundup issue of Inter@ctive Week as one the 25 "Driving Forces of Cyberspace," and recognized at the White House in the USA. and internationally for analyzing and shaping the global commercial, public policy, legal, economic, and societal directions.