Standards and Statecraft: Featuring Laurie E. Locascio | Betting on America

Laurie E. Locascio, Ph.D., NAE, president and CEO of the American National Standards Institute and former director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, joins Betting on America to make the case that sustaining U.S. standards leadership requires playing the long game. Standards-setting is how governments, industry, and experts agree on common rules, from defining a meter, to determining how a phone connects to Wi-Fi. Standards are increasingly central to the modern economy, and China and other countries are ratcheting up efforts to shape them. Locascio argues that the U.S. government should incentivize companies to pursue long-term standards goals and ensure that the best U.S. technical diplomats have seats at the tables where global standards are set. This event is made possible through general support to CSIS. --------------------------------------------- A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit https://www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world's greatest challenges. Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTve Follow CSIS on: • Twitter:   / csis   • Facebook:   / csis.org   • Instagram:   / csis