Artificial Intelligence
Experts Debate Artificial Intelligence Licensing Legislation
Licensing requirements will distract from wide scale testing and will limit competition, an event heard.
Telework
Telework Can Be Mainstay If Broadband Gets Up to Speed
Experts say telework is here to stay, so long as broadband disparities are fixed.
Social Media
Journalists and Techies Knock Each Other Over Media Coverage of Trump-Biden Contest
November 9, 2020 – The media may have missed the boat on Trump voters, including Latino Trump voters, but at least it was smart enough to spike the Hunter Biden story as “misinformation.” That was the assessment of journalists participating in a Knight Foundation event on Thursday. Two days after El
Health
Aspen Institute Panelists Discuss Technology’s Role in Combatting Mental Illness
August 13, 2020 — As a result of 2020’s myriad challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, widespread economic instability and a societal reckoning with inequality, mental health issues are on the rise across various populations. This moment of heightened loneliness and mental health crises unders
Section 230
President Trump’s Anti-Section 230 Executive Order ‘Radical,’ says Sen. Ron Wyden
June 3, 2020 — The actions that President Donald Trump has taken to punish tech companies for alleged anti-conservative discrimination are radical, said Section 230 co-author Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in an Aspen Institute webinar Tuesday. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects tech pl
Broadband's Impact
Press Release: Blair Levin Joins Brookings as a Nonresident Senior Fellow
WASHINGTON, October 6, 2014 —Blair Levin, telecommunications expert and former Communications & Society Fellow at the Aspen Institute, has joined the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program as a nonresident senior fellow, Bruce Katz, Brookings vice president and Metropolitan Policy Progr
Broadband's Impact
Broadband Prioritization Not Such A Terrible Idea, Georgetown University Panelists Say
WASHINGTON, June 17, 2014 – Paid prioritization may not be such a bad idea – in fact, the notion that the entire internet needs to be treated equally is misleading, said panelists at a June 10 symposium on internet regulation. Internet users might have greater interest in seeing phone packets go thr
Broadband Data
U.S. Broadband Deployment and Speeds are Beating Europe’s, Says Scholar Touting ‘Facilities-based Competition’
WASHINGTON, June 10, 2014 – In spite of press reports to the contrary, U.S. broadband coverage is not falling behind European levels of service, academic Christopher Yoo said on Wednesday at the National Press Club. “It seems like every other week there’s a new infographic or news story that talks a
Broadband's Impact
Tom Wheeler Surging; Profiles of Other Prospective Candidates to be FCC Chairman: Susan Crawford and Blair Levin
WASHINGTON, April 15, 2013 – Tom Wheeler, one of the most-frequently mentioned names to take the chairmanship of the Federal Communications Commission, remains perhaps the leading contender for the role, according to a Friday telecom update from Medley Global Advisors. “Venture capitalist and former
Broadband Data
Get Out of the Business of Regulating Copper Wires, Say FCC Critics at Internet Protocol Event
WASHINGTON, February 8, 2013 – The Federal Communications Commission is not able to flexibly adapt to changed circumstances in the communications world, according to officials participating in a January 30 panel on here the transition to internet protocol networks. With the topic in hand of the “re
Australia
New Zealand Broadband Plan Sheds Light on U.S. Plan
WASHINGTON, July 22, 2011 – Broadband experts examined whether New Zealand’s ‘Ultra-Fast Broadband Initiative’ contained lessons that could be applied to the U.S.’ own broadband situation Tuesday at a New America Foundation Panel (NAF). Panelist Blair Levin, Communications and Society Fellow at the
Broadband Calendar
Blair Levin, Plus Officials from South Korea, U.K., Follow Top Canadian Telecom Official at May 18 Event
WASHINGTON, May 12, 2010 – Blair Levin, the former Executive Director of the Omnibus Broadband Initiative at the Federal Communications Commission, will join the panel at the Broadband Breakfast Club on Tuesday, May 18. He will be a panel with Young K. Noh, Minister-Counselor of the Korean Embassy,
Broadband Updates
Blair Levin, Following Path of Former Chairmen, Joins Aspen Institute
WASHINGTON, April 15, 2010 — Blair Levin, who became the chief architect behind the Federal Communication’s National Broadband Plan as director of the FCC Omnibus Broadband Initiative will leave the agency following the first week in May, according to a commission press release.
Broadband's Impact
Lawmaker Weighs Government Intervention In The Media
WASHINGTON, December 2, 2009 – A senior lawmaker on Wednesday weighed in on government intervention in the media at a Federal Trade Commission forum convened to consider an alleged decreasing amount of original reporting taking place, as media outlets shut down or layoff journalists in the face of f
Broadband's Impact
Knight Commission Report on Democracy in the Digital Age Focused on Broadband
WASHINGTON, October 5, 2009 – These are the most important things relating to broadband: availability, skills needed to use broadband, and universal service. A three-panel discussion held by the Knight Commission, which on Friday released a report, “Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the
Expert Opinion
What Drives Broadband Adoption? An Aspen Institute Working Paper
WASHINGTON, December 5 – This report, authored by BroadbandCensus.com Editor Drew Clark for the Aspen Institute’s Communications and Society Program in August 2007, asks and attempts to answer a series of questions about broadband adoption.
