Mobile Technology and Entrepreneurship in the Middle East: A Conversation with Christopher M. Schroeder

Friday, December 5, 2014
Speaker
Christopher M. Schroeder

Author, Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East

Presider
Karen Kornbluh

Senior Fellow for Digital Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

This meeting of the Roundtable Series on Digital Policy discusses the importance of communications policy in creating robust infrastructure for entrepreneurship in the Middle East.

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