Articles Posted with the Benton Foundation Tag
Broadband Stimulus, Broadband's Impact, National Broadband Plan
Monday, November 16th, 2009
U.S. Broadband Coalition Working Group Urges Federal Involvement to Stimulate Adoption
Broadband Events, Broadband TV, Broadband's Impact
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
What the Smart Grid and Telecommuting Mean for the Environment, at Broadband Breakfast Club
WASHINGTON, November 12, 2009 - BroadbandCensus.com on Thursday released, for FREE, the full-length video of the Broadband Breakfast Club event on November 10, 2009: "Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan: The Environment and Telecommuting."
This video is 72 minutes, 58 seconds long. If you are unable to view the entire video, make sure to unclick the "HD" button on the right.
The event is available on BroadbandCensus.com at the following link.
The creation of a “smart grid” for electricity conservation may lead to parallel telecommunications networks by both utilities and traditional telephone communications providers; whether or not this was a positive development was debated at the Broadband Breakfast Club on Tuesday.
The event featured Jennifer Thomas Alcott, Telework!VA's program manager; Cynthia Brumfeld, Director of Research, Utilities Telecom Council; Kevin Moss, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, BT Americas; Steven Ruth, Professor, George Mason University School of Public Policy; and Donald Thoma, Executive Vice President Marketing at the satellite company Iridium.
To register for the next Broadband Breakfast Club, to be held on Tuesday, December 8, 2009, please visit http://broadbandbreakfast.eventbrite.com. The Broadband Breakfast Club...
Blog Entries, Broadband Data, Expert Opinion
Friday, October 30th, 2009
BroadbandCensus.com: Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan
By Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, October 30, 2009 – Over the summer, BroadbandCensus.com split our operations between the news and events that we host, and the Creative Commons database with the local broadband SPARC: the Speeds, Prices, Availability, Reliability and Competition in the local broadband marketplace. As we’ve now entered the fourth year of this saga in which BroadbandCensus.com has been leading the charge for public and transparent broadband data, much has changed about the opportunity that we face, and our country faces, in bringing better broadband data to consumers, and to policy-makers. In previous versions of this series of blog posts taking stock, I’ve highlighted our efforts to start the ball rolling on crowdsourcing broadband data, and on uniting scholars and state officials through the “Broadband Census for America” conference that we hosted on the eve of the passage of the Broadband Data Improvement Act. Today, I’d like to speak about some of the major changes that 2009 has brought to BroadbandCensus.com – particularly as both our news and our data side have helped to set the table for the national broadband plan currently under development. In the final series of these blog posts, next week,...Broadband TV, Broadband's Impact
Friday, October 16th, 2009
Four Doctors on How Technology Will Impact the Delivery of Health Care, at Broadband Breakfast Club
WASHINGTON, October 16, 2009 - BroadbandCensus.com on Friday released, for FREE, the full-length video of the Broadband Breakfast Club event on October 13, 2009: "Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan: Health Care and Telemedicine."
The event is available on BroadbandCensus.com at the following link.
The event featured Dr. Adam Darkins, who leads the National Telehealth Programs for U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Dr. Ted Eytan, Medical Director, Delivery Systems Operations Improvement, Kaiser Permanente; Col. Ron Poropatich, M.D., Department of the Army, who is responsible for a range of telemedicine activities of the military; and Dr. Jay Sanders, CEO, Global Telemedicine Group; often dubbed the "father of telemedicine."
To register for the next Broadband Breakfast Club, to be held on Tuesday, November 10, 2009, please visit http://broadbandbreakfast.eventbrite.com. The Broadband Breakfast Club is sponsored by the Benton Foundation, the International Broadband Electric Communications, Inc., and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association.
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Broadband Data
Monday, September 28th, 2009
‘Beer and Broadband Mapping’ at the Top Telecommunications Policy Conference
By Christopher Naoum, Special Correspondent, BroadbandCensus.com
ARLINGTON, Va., September 28, 2009 – “Beer and Broadband Mapping” was the informal name appended to a spirited and lively discussion that capped the first day of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference here at George Mason School of Law on Friday, September 25. Blair Levin, executive director of the Federal Communication Commission’s Omnibus Broadband Initiative and a keynote panelist at the Friday evening event, joked that the real intelligence among those academics would be among those spending their Friday night talking about broadband data. The discussion, which was sponsored by The Benton Foundation, BroadbandCensus.com and the New America Foundation, began at around 8:30 p.m., and lasted for nearly an hour and a half. Many notable academics from TPRC, and from the Obama administration, attended the session. Charles Benton, chairman of the Benton Foundation, began the discussion by noting the importance of broadband data disclosure, which he had emphasized in his opening statement at the U.S. Broadband Coalition on Thursday, September 24. Drew Clark, executive director of BroadbandCensus.com, followed by presenting the company’s public and transparent map of Columbia, South Carolina, that shows broadband speeds, technologies, and providers It is available at BroadbandCensusMaps.com. Clark referenced the major change...Broadband Data, FCC, National Broadband Plan
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
U.S. Broadband Coalition Releases Report on Broadband Strategy, Bringing 160 Organizations Together
By Andrew Feinberg, Deputy Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, September 24, 2009 - A national broadband strategy must take steps to stimulate adoption and use of technology at a variety of levels, said a report by the U.S. Broadband Coalition, which presented the report at the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday. The coalition, a non-profit organization made up of more than 160 organizations that provide or depend on broadband services, came together to push for a national broadband plan in mid-2008. The release of the group's report is the culmination of 18 months of work that predates the passage of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act when the coalition issued a "call to action" to organize and create a national broadband strategy. FCC broadband czar Blair Levin welcomed the group's comprehensive report. Facts needed for the commission to construct a national broadband plan are "not in the record...and not at the FCC," he said. If the government is to invest in broadband, there must be a "level of clarity...a level of certainty...about those facts," Levin cautioned. And when it comes to data and facts, the FCC needs help gathering facts to fulfill its charge from Congress, he said: "I have to tell you, we don't have that." Keeping...Blog Entries, Expert Opinion
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
BroadbandCensus.com: Starting the Ball Rolling on Crowdsourcing
By Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, September 22, 2009 – Public and transparent broadband data has now been elevated to the level of a fundamental principle, at least in the Monday speech by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski. But it’s worth reflecting on the time – not so long ago – when the quest to collect this kind of broadband data was an unrealized vision at the losing end of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. On Monday, I recounted the history and aftermath of this FOIA request and lawsuit that the Center for Public Integrity filed again Kevin Martin’s FCC. In many ways, that defeat directly set the stage for the launch of BroadbandCensus.com in the fall of 2007. All this week, during One Web Week, I’m speaking about the history of BroadbandCensus.com from a personal perspective. In this series of blog posts, I’m going to speak about what we’ve been through, who we have worked with to advance the principles of public and transparent broadband data, and what we ultimately aim to achieve at BroadbandCensus.com.Broadband Events
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Broadband Breakfast Club Announces ‘Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan’
BroadbandCensus.com Unveils New Broadband Breakfast Club on 'Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan'
Series Runs from September 15, 2009, and Culminates on February 9, 2010, One Week Before the Federal Communications Commission's Plan is Due to Congress
Press Release
WASHINGTON, September 9, 2009 - BroadbandCensus.com on Wednesday announced a new series of the Broadband Breakfast Club, “Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan,” beginning on Tuesday, September 15, 2009, at 8 a.m. The series, which will run until February 9, 2010, one week before the FCC's plan is due to Congress, will continue the Broadband Breakfast Club’s year-long tradition of inviting top experts and policy-makers to share breakfast and perspectives on broadband technology and internet policy. The first panel, on Tuesday, September 15, 2009, will consider the FCC’s summer broadband workshops. What have they accomplished? What role have and will FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and his new staff play in shaping the plan? How will this plan unfold over the next six months? And how will the broadband stimulus program already underway affect the development of the FCC's plan? Confirmed panelists for the event include Joe Waz, Senior Vice President, Comcast; Aaron Smith, Research Specialist, Pew Internet & American Life Project; Bruce Kushnick, Executive Director,...Additional Pages
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