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Monday, September 21st, 2009
BroadbandCensus.com: Leading the Charge for Public and Transparent Data
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Sunday, July 19th, 2009
A Crowdsourced National Broadband Census: The Time is Now!
By Drew Clark, Editor and Executive Director, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, July 19, 2009 - Over at O'Reilly's Radar, Carl Malamud discusses the need for a crowdsourced national communiations census, or a broadband census. He writes:My last tour of duty in DC was Chief Technology Officer at the Center for American Progress. One of the fun things I got to do was figure out what everybody else did, including my fellow Senior Fellows, the folks that generated most of the policy work, many of whom are now occupying senior posts in the new administration.
One of the most fascinating was Mark Lloyd. An experienced Emmy-winning television producer, communications lawyer, and community activist, Mark is the author of a well-regarded book aboutcommunications and democracy and numerous columns. He's currently at the Leadership Conference for Civil Rights.
The project Mark Lloyd was working on was a National Broadband Map to show our true communications capabilities. And, he wanted to crowd-source the map from community groups, supplementing that with census and other data from several different places to create a big mash-up. This was in 2005, around the same time Adrian Holovaty was thinking about chicagocrime.org.
Here's my reply on the O'Reilly...Commentary, Expert Opinion
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Broadband Infrastructure Investments Need Transparency, Says BroadbandCensus.com
Commentary
By Drew Clark, Editor and Executive Director, Broadband Census.com
WASHINGTON, February 9, 2009 - In a guest op-ed in Ars Technica, I caution that the broadband infrastructure investments planned as part of the economic stimulus package need transparency if they're to be effective. Follow this link to the article. Or visit the main page of Ars Technica.viagra
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Commentary, Expert Opinion
Friday, December 5th, 2008
What Drives Broadband Adoption? An Aspen Institute Working Paper
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Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
Editor's Note:This working paper was originally written for the Aspen Institute's Communications and Society Program's August 2007 forum in Aspen, Colorado, in which the author participated. At the time, the author was Senior Fellow and Project Manager at the Center for Public Integrity. The paper was included in "A Framework for a National Broadband Policy" (PDF). Republished with permission of the Aspen Institute. What do broadband users want? The ability to connect online through some form of access, obviously. Service that doesn’t cost a fortune, clearly. Fundamentally and personally, however, what do broadband users want by going online? Why do 47 percent of adult Americans subscribe to broadband? Conversely, why do a little more than half not subscribe? Why do subscribers keep paying their monthly bills? In considering a framework for a national broadband policy, what can we learn from considering broadband adoption trends, both quantitatively and qualitatively? In this paper, two specific questions about broadband adoption are addressed. Both are framed in the context of also considering the availability of broadband access and the affordability of available choices; those topics are explored in other papers. For this paper, consider: • What other factors, such as equipment subsidies...Press Releases
Saturday, November 1st, 2008
BroadbandCensus.com Applies for Knight News Challenge Grant to Enhance Data, Build Out Wiki and Offer Video
Blog Entries
By Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, November 1 - BroadbandCensus.com applied on Saturday for a News Challenge grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The application, which can be viewed online at the newschallenge.org web site, lays out a plan of action for the future work of this web site. Here's the text of the application:Project Title:
BroadbandCensus.com is Crowdsourcing Internet Access Community-by-Community: It's the Building BlockRequested amount from Knight News Challenge:
$900,000Expected amount of time to complete project:
1 [year]Total cost of project including all sources of funding:
$1,100,000Describe your project:
You are probably reading this on a computing device. You probably have either a wired or a wireless internet connection. You probably have broadband access. What else do you know about your broadband connection? How well does your connection work? Is your carrier limiting your bandwidth? Do your neighbors have the broadband speeds and services that they need to connect to you? BroadbandCensus.com wants you to know everything about your broadband options. We want communities to know. The internet is international, but all broadband is local. BroadbandCensus.com understands this. We are building the knowledge base about broadband – through data, news and now through video. Just as the market for...Blog Entries, Expert Opinion
Friday, August 8th, 2008
A Debate About Data Confidentiality and the Forthcoming ‘Broadband Census for America’
Blog Entries
By Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
A recent post to Dave Farber's [IP] list: WASHINGTON, August 8 - I'd like to take a moment to respond to some of the issues raised by the recent e-mail of Brett Glass. With respect to the issue data confidentiality, it's important to separate out several issues here: (1) The names of carriers and the locations in which they offer services, by ZIP code. (2) The number of subscribers that carriers have in a particular ZIP code. The Form 477 of the Federal Communications Commission requires carriers to submit both types of information to the FCC. I agree that category (2) may well be confidential information. I do not think that category (1) can be considered confidential. The web site that I run, http://BroadbandCensus.com, is an attempt to combine information about broadband from various sources. In addition to "crowdsourcing" data from internet users, we are combining public information from the FCC's Form 477, publicly available information about carriers and where they offer services, as well as from states and localities. Since we launched BroadbandCensus.com in January 2008, We have had thousands of internet users tell us the names of their providers, where those providers are offering service, and they've...Broadband Data
Monday, June 16th, 2008
FCC Releases Broadband Data Order For Census-Tract Data
News
By Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, June 15 - In an effort to increase the data that the Federal Communications Commission has available as it designs broadband policies, on Thursday the FCC ordered broadband providers to provide the agency with more detailed information. For the past eight years, broadband providers had to provide the FCC with semi-annual information about the number of subscribers that they have in each ZIP code. Now, they will need to provide the number of subscribers in each Census tract, too. In a last-minute change sought by AT&T and the non-profit group Free Press, the FCC decided to also require broadband carriers to separate out the number of business from residential customers. Additionally, under a new form created by the broadband data order, carriers must also say how many of their subscribers within each Census tract fit into each of eight separate speed tiers. The tiers are as follows: (1) greater than 200 kbps but less than 768 kbps; (2) equal to or greater than 768 kbps but less than 1.5 mbps; (3) equal to or greater than 1.5 mbps but less than 3.0 mbps; (4) equal to or greater than 3.0 mbps but less than 6.0 mbps, (5) equal...Additional Pages
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