Building a Broadband Strategy for America

Building a Broadband Strategy for America
12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4
Renaissance Washington Hotel
part of 2008 Politics Online Conference

Broadband penetration in the United States lags behind the rest of the world. At the same time, tough new questions regarding access and fairness face policymakers.

Join an interactive look about why broadband matters and how the political process will affect the future of the Internet at “Building a Broadband Strategy for America,” a keynote conversation at the 2008 Politics Online Conference.

Federal Communications Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, who has traveled the country attempting to rally Americans behind the concept of a National Broadband Strategy.
Tim Wu, the Professor of Law at Columbia University who coined the term “Net Neutrality,” and who last year extended the Net Neutrality debate to the wireless world by criticizing mobile carriers that lock their handsets, like the iPhone.
Eric Werner, a Senior Advisor at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, in the Bush Administration. NTIA recently issued a report on the President’s goal to have universal and affordable broadband by 2007.

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