Ben Scott (born 14 May, 1977) is director of policy and advocacy at Luminate, a part of the global philanthropic organization, The Omidyar Group. He is also on the management board of the
Stiftung Neue Verantwortung
Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV) (roughly "New Responsibility Foundation" in English) is a German non-profit think tank based in Berlin that specializes in public policy related to technology's effect on society.
SNV deals with the topics of IT s ...
(SNV) in Berlin, an independent technology policy think tank. He has been a part of the leadership at the SNV since 2014, and before that was a fellow there. Previously, Scott was Senior Advisor at the
New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., where he did work on the ad tech industry. During the 2016 presidential campaign, he was the coordinator of the Tech & Innovation Policy Advisory Group for Hillary Clinton. Previously, he was a Policy Advisor for Innovation at the
US Department of State where he worked at the intersection of technology and foreign policy. In a small team of advisors to Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton, he worked to help steward the
21st Century Statecraft agenda with a focus on technology policy, social media and development.
Life
Scott grew up in
Canyon, Texas
Canyon is a city in, and the county seat of, Randall County, Texas, United States. The population was 14,836 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Amarillo, Texas, metropolitan statistical area. Canyon is the home of West Texas A&M University and ...
. Scott is a 1995 graduate of the
University of Illinois Laboratory High School. Scott is a graduate of
Northwestern University. In 2010 he received his Doctorate from the Institute of Communications Research at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Career
Scott has worked as a legislative telecommunications policy fellow for Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and as the Policy Director for
Free Press, a national media reform organization. While at Free Press Ben lead a number of initiatives and was described as a "driving force for '
net neutrality.'" While at Free Press, his expertise was often sought by the press and Ben was regularly called on to testify before the
United States Senate and
United States House of Representatives.
In May, 2010 Scott left Free Press to become Policy Advisor for Innovation at the
U.S. State Department
The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other nati ...
. He was part of a small team of advisors to the Secretary of State and has been described as a key player working towards 21st Century Statecraft.
In 2015, Ben Scott was called on to submit an expert report for the German Parliament's official inquiry committee into the Snowden affair.
Since 2018 he has served as director of policy and advocacy at Luminate, part of the global philanthropic organization, the Omidyar Group.
Bibliography
Books
* 2015 Ansgar Baums / Martin Schoessler / Ben Scott, editors
Kompendium Industrie 4.0 Berlin (in German)
* 2013 Ansgar Baums and Ben Scott, editors.
Kompendium Digitale Standortpolitik Berlin. (in German)
* 2005
Robert W. McChesney, Russell Newman and Ben Scott, editors. ''The Future of Media.'' New York: Seven Stories Press..
* 2004
Robert W. McChesney & Ben Scott, editors. ''Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism.'' New York: The New Press.
Articles
* 2018: Dipayan Ghosh and Ben Scott.
Digital Deceit II: A Policy Agenda to Fight Disinformation on the Internet.New America Foundation publication.
*2018: Dipayan Ghosh and Ben Scott.
Digital Deceit: The Technologies Behind Precision Propaganda on the Internet.New America Foundation publication.
*2018: Ben Scott / Stefan Heumann / Phillipe Lorenz.
Artificial Intelligence and Foreign Policy Stiftung Neue Vorantwortung publication.
*2016: Ben Scott
Collaborative Policy Development: From Think Tank to Civic Enterprise New America Foundation publication.
*2011:
Alec Ross
Alexander Ross (15 September 1879 – 25 June 1952) was a Scottish professional golfer. He was a native of Dornoch and learned his golf in his home country, but like many British professional golfers of his era he spent many years working a ...
and Ben Scott. 21st Century Statecraft. NATO Review.
* 2006:
Sascha Meinrath
Sascha Meinrath is an American policy activist and educator. He is currently the Palmer Chair in Telecommunications at Penn State University.
Meinrath founded the Open Technology Institute in 2008 and directed the Institute while also serving as ...
and Ben Scott. Community Internet: Why Should Arts and Culture Funders Care. Grantmakers in the Arts Reader.
* 2003: Ben Scott and Sascha Meinrath. Media Reform Explodes onto American Political Scene. Public i. Vol. 3(10).
References
External links
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1977 births
Living people
Northwestern University alumni
United States Department of State officials
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Media alumni
People from Canyon, Texas