Hillary Clinton talks net neutrality, philanthropy in tech at Dreamforce 2014
Summary: Ethics are as important as electronics. Corporate responsibility is highly prized. Thats a model not just for this industry, but the world, Clinton posited.
SAN FRANCISCO---The benefits of technology to peoples lives need to outweigh the pitfalls, starting by producing more jobs and connecting communities, argued former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Leading off Dreamforce 2014 on Tuesday morning, Secretary Clinton covered a broad range of topics over the course of the morning keynote, including citing uses of mobile and social tech for fueling the Clinton Foundations initiatives for education and healthcare.
Maintaining an open Internet is a critical, asserted Clinton, going on to outline how the U.S. Department of State "kept trying to spend money to defend those rights during her tenure as chief of the bureau.
"It became obvious that individuals, especially those with activist approaches and dissident opinions, were increasingly becoming the targets of governments, Clinton insisted.
Ethics are as important as electronics. Corporate responsibility is highly prized. Thats a model not just for this industry, but the world, Clinton posited.
The opportunity to speak out, Clinton continued, to associate with others around the globe is "a core value in line with freedom of speech and what we have enshrined in our Bill of Rights."
"I will tell all of you here this is an ongoing struggle, with more oppressive regimes worldwide who want more control over the Internet, shut it down and interfere with peoples freedoms, she added, further arguing that it is absolutely clear to me that we have to keep the Internet open. Clinton also applauded President Obama for championing net neutrality, which is at the center of its own ongoing debate domestically.
Clinton also praised host Salesforce.com and its CEO Marc Benioff for "reinventing how companies do philanthropy. She highlighted the San Francisco-headquartered corporations involvement with UCSF Childrens Hospitals in the Bay Area as well as the Software-as-a-Service providers "the 1/1/1 model for committing people, technology, and resources.
Clinton characterized the latter project as revolutionary as the cloud
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Hillary Clinton talks net neutrality, philanthropy in tech at Dreamforce 2014