Broadband Census for America Conference
The nation’s foremost broadband policy-makers and experts will analyze and discuss best practices for improving the collection and sharing of public data about high-speed internet access at the Broadband Census for America Conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday, September 26, 2008. In their own words: “Universal broadband is vital to America’s future economic, social and political health. Collecting better data about broadband through some sort of broadband census is a first step in creating an effective national broadband strategy. Many forces are working toward this end. House Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey introduced, and the House has passed, the ‘Broadband Census of America Act.’ In early 2008, BroadbandCensus.com launched its free web service seeking to collect ‘bottom-up’ information about local broadband speeds, prices, availability, reliability and competition across the nation. This conference, sponsored by BroadbandCensus.com, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Virginia Tech, is intended to provide an overview of these various efforts. The conference organizers begin with the rebuttable presumption that in order to be useful to consumers, researchers, potential new service providers, and citizens, broadband information should be publicly available.” Couldn’t agree more.
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