Commerce Promotes Digital Economy at State of the Net

At the State of the Net conference, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker shared the Department’s commitment to promoting policies that support America’s digital economy. And she pledged to act as the champion of good Internet policy that supports entrepreneurs, businesses, and their workers.

At the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), we’re working to fulfill that pledge by continuing to work -- both domestically and internationally -- to champion the multistakeholder model for developing Internet policies. The Internet is a diverse, multi-layered system that thrives only through the cooperation of many different parties. Solving policy issues in this space requires engaging these different parties -- businesses, policymakers, civil society leaders, and others. They are all partners in the process, each with the ability to participate and have a voice in the outcome.

[Lawrence E. Strickling is Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator]