New America’s Sascha Meinrath Launches X-Lab: Innovative Platform to Anticipate and Prepare for Future Disruptions in Tech Policy

Community Internet pioneer and entrepreneurial visionary Sascha Meinrath announced the launch of X-Lab, an innovative platform to anticipate, develop, and respond to what’s next in tech policy.

Meinrath created X-Lab as an incubator to rethink how technological advances support and curtail our civil rights and fundamental freedoms over time. “No one should have to make a trade-off between using technology and their human rights and privacy,” said Sascha Meinrath. “X-Lab will convene technological experts from around the globe and the brightest minds from a diverse array of different sectors to imagine, innovate, and set the agenda for tech policy interventions in the years to come.”

X-Lab’s first set of innovative programs will include:

• Commotion Tech Lab
• Circumvention Tech Lab
• PrivWare Lab
• Distributed Production Lab
• “Smart” Infrastructure Policy Lab