Responsible Tech Mixer + Fireside Chat with Frank H. McCourt Jr.
All Tech Is Human will hold its next Responsible Tech Mixer + Interview Series, featuring a fireside chat with Frank H. McCourt, Jr. (civic entrepreneur and executive chairman of McCourt Global, founder and executive chairman of Project Liberty) about his upcoming book, Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age.
McCourt will be in conversation with Jennifer Strong (Host of SHIFT Podcast from PRX Pulitzer Fellow for AI Accountability Previously WSJ, NPR, and MIT Tech Review).
About Frank H. McCourt, Jr..
Frank H. McCourt, Jr., is a civic entrepreneur and executive chairman of McCourt Global, a private family company with a 130-year legacy and steadfast commitment to building a better future through its work across the real estate, sports & media, technology, and capital investment industries.
Frank is also the founder and executive chairman of Project Liberty, a far-reaching effort to build an internet where individuals have control over their data, a voice in how platforms operate, and more access to the economic benefits of innovation. Project Liberty is supported by a $500-million commitment and encompasses the work of the Project Liberty Foundation – a 501(c)(3) with an international partner network that includes Georgetown University, Stanford University, Sciences Po, and other leading academic institutions and civic organizations – and Amplica Labs, a technology business launched by McCourt Global that is focused on developing the next generation of digital infrastructure. In 2021, Project Liberty released a groundbreaking, open internet protocol – the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP) – to support a new, healthier internet era.
A proud Georgetown University alumnus, Frank has served on the school’s Board of Directors for many years. In 2013, he made a $100 million founding investment to create Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy. He expanded on this in 2021 with a $100 million investment to catalyze an inclusive pipeline of leaders and put the school on a path to becoming tuition-free.
Frank owns the French football club Olympique de Marseille and formerly owned the Los Angeles Dodgers. With family roots in infrastructure development and construction, Frank’s real estate work includes the development of Boston’s Seaport and large, mixed-use projects worldwide.
His forthcoming book, Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age, will be published by Crown on March 12, 2024.
About Jennifer Strong
Jennifer Strong is a producer and journalist based in New York City. She's the creator of several top science and technology podcasts for newsrooms including ProPublica, The Wall Street Journal, and MIT Technology Review. Her latest show, SHIFT, launched in 2023 and is distributed by public radio's PRX. Jennifer’s reporting has been recognized by awards juries more than thirty times, including six Webby and three Ambie (Podcast Academy Award) nominations. Her narrative podcasts were finalist selections at the New York Festivals for the last two years, and a finalist for Podcast of the Year by The Drum Awards in London for a taping she did inside an experimental fighter plane.
About All Tech Is Human
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