Articles Posted with the Drew Clark Tag
Broadband Data, Broadband Stimulus, States
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Connect Illinois Announces Drew Clark as Executive Director; Founder of BroadbandCensus.com to Lead State Broadband Data and Deployment Effort
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, and WASHINGTON, February 25, 2010 – Connect Illinois, a non-profit organization that includes partnerships with Southern Illinois University, Man-Tra-Con, and Connected Nation, on Thursday announced Drew Clark as its new Executive Director.
On Wednesday, the group also unveiled BroadbandStat, a new interactive mapping tool for viewing and analyzing broadband data.
Clark, the founder of BroadbandCensus.com and an experienced, independent telecom industry analyst, brings a unique public interest perspective to broadband data collection, which is vital to the effective deployment of high-speed internet networks throughout the United States.
“I’m glad that our team of broadband experts is moving forward to help achieve the ambitious vision for a public, transparent map of technology infrastructure that President Obama and I share,” said Governor Pat Quinn. A long-time advocate of improving broadband access in Illinois, Governor Quinn has worked with public and private partners over many years to ensure connectivity in all areas.
As the state’s designated entity to perform broadband mapping, Connect Illinois recently received $1.8 million in funding from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration for broadband data collection, mapping and planning activities. In 2009, led by Southern Illinois University, Connect Illinois received a start-up grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic...
Blog Entries, Broadband Data, Expert Opinion
Monday, December 14th, 2009
BroadbandCensus.com Offers Strategic Broadband Mapping Solution for State Designated Entities
By Drew Clark, Executive Director, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, December 14, 2009 - Broadband Census Data announced the availability of highly granular Census block mapping services to state recipients of broadband mapping grants. BroadbandCensus.com provides the information necessary for states to meet grant obligations under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It does this by identifying:- carriers;
- internet technologies;
- advertised speeds;
- prices; and
- the presence or absence of broadband within each Census block.
- Wireline footprints;
- Radio-frequency engineering maps;
- Publicly-available carrier data;
- Survey-grade research; and
- Crowdsourced data.
Broadband Events
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
November Broadband Breakfast Club on the Environment and Telecommuting
November 10, 2009, Event Will Consider Broadband's Impact on the Environment and Telecommuting; Third in a Series on 'Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan'
Press Release
WASHINGTON, November 2, 2009 - BroadbandCensus.com announced the panelists for the next Broadband Breakfast Club, “Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan: The Environment,” on Tuesday, November 10 2009, at 8 a.m. The series, which will run until February 9, 2010, one week before the Federal Communications Commission'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. To see the FREE view from the October 13 Broadband Breakfast Club, on broadband and health care, click here. The panel on Tuesday, November 10, 2009, is the third in this series. It will consider how carbon-positive a technology is broadband? What's keeping telecommuting from being more widely adopted as a technology? What are the other "green" benefits of broadband communication, and how can the National Broadband Plan best encourage them? Confirmed Panelists:- Jennifer Alcott, Telework!VA Program Manager, Commonwealth of Virginia
- Kevin Moss, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, BT Americas
- Steven Ruth, Professor, George Mason University School of Public Policy
- Donald L....
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.
Additional sponsorship opportunities are available. For further information, contact sales@broadbandcensus.com, or call 202-580-8196. The Broadband Breakfast Club is Copyright © Broadband Census News...
Broadband Events
Friday, October 9th, 2009
Kaiser Permanente Joins Broadband Breakfast Club Panel on Health Care
October 13, 2009, Event Will Consider Broadband's Impact on Health Care and Telemedicine; Second in a Series on 'Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan'
Press Release
WASHINGTON, October 9, 2009 - Dr. Ted Eytan, Medical Director for Delivery Systems Operations Improvement with Kaiser Permanente, has joined the panel of experts for the next Broadband Breakfast Club, “Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan: Health Care,” on Tuesday, October 13, 2009, at 8 a.m. The series, which will run until February 9, 2010, one week before the Federal Communications Commission'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 panel on Tuesday, October 13, 2009, is the second in the series. It will consider: How will broadband affect burgeoning controversies over health care? Are the cost savings available through telemedicine as good as promised? Will information technologies be part of the solution - or just another complicating factor in the intricate medical system? Confirmed Panelists:- Dr. Adam Darkins, Department of Veterans' Affairs
- Dr. Ted Eytan, Medical Director, Delivery Systems Operations Improvement, Kaiser Permanente
- Col. Ron Poropatich, M.D., Department of the Army
- Dr. Jay Sanders, Global...
Broadband Events
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
‘Father of Telemedicine’ to Speak at Broadband Breakfast Club on October 13
October 13, 2009, Event Will Consider Broadband's Impact on Health Care and Telemedicine; Second in a Series on 'Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan'
Press Release
WASHINGTON, October 7, 2009 - BroadbandCensus.com announced the panelists for the next Broadband Breakfast Club, “Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan: Health Care,” on Tuesday, October 13, 2009, at 8 a.m. The series, which will run until February 9, 2010, one week before the Federal Communications Commission'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 panel on Tuesday, October 13, 2009, is the second in the series. It will consider how will broadband affect burgeoning controversies over health care? Are the cost savings available through telemedicine as good as promised? Will information technologies be part of the solution - or just another complicating factor in the intricate medical system? Confirmed Panelists:- Dr. Adam Darkins, Department of Veterans' Affairs.
- Col. Ron Poropatich, M.D., Department of the Army.
- Dr. Jay Sanders, Global Telemedicine Group; often dubbed the "father of telemedicine."
- Additional panelists have been invited.
Broadband Data, Press Releases
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Connected Nation and BroadbandCensus.com to Debate in New Orleans
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW ORLEANS, October 1, 2009 – Top officials from Connected Nation, BroadbandCensus.com and One Economy will discuss key issues in broadband data and mapping – including controversial questions about public disclosure of carrier information on broadband maps – here on Thursday. The debate will take place at the annual conference of the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and will feature Phillip Brown, National Policy Director of Connected Nation; Drew Clark, Executive Director of BroadbandCensus.com; and Ken Eisner, Managing Director of One Economy Ventures. The description for the panel reads as follows:It has been said that you can't analyze what you can't measure. Broadband mapping has the potential to provide policy makers and citizens with information needed to develop effective strategies around broadband deployment and adoption. Mapping projects in a number of states have raised concerns about transparency, conflicts of interest, and the accuracy and usefulness of the information developed. Speakers representing a variety of interests will discuss pros and cons of the nation's mapping projects and will evaluate the Federal Government's efforts to date.
BroadbandCensus.com has long urged that broadband mapping be conducted in a public and transparent matter, and that broadband data must also serve the...Additional Pages
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