April 2018
Video: How technology is bringing us too much information (CBS)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 04/02/2018 - 10:57Comcast rolls out DOCSIS 3.1 in Charleston, Memphis, Savannah and other Southern cities (Fierce)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 04/02/2018 - 10:56How Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook targeting model really worked – according to the person who built it (Conversation, The)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 04/02/2018 - 10:56Are encrypted messaging apps like Telegram and Signal safeguarding your data, or a threat to society? (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 04/02/2018 - 10:55Daily Digest 4/2/2018
Submitted by benton on Mon, 04/02/2018 - 10:33Chairman Pai announced that the following items are tentatively on the agenda for the April 2018 Open Commission Meeting:
A lunchtime panel discussion on the Tribal Connect Act of 2017 (S.2205) highlighting the importance of broadband connectivity to tribal and rural communities. This discussion will focus on how broadband connectivity and telecommunications infrastructure in rural and tribal regions helps to enhance education, provide economic opportunity, and close the digital divide. The panel will explore the role that libraries play as community institutions that facilitate digital inclusion.
Introductions by Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and American Library Association President Jim Neal.
The Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution will host a discussion on technology transfer. The two-panel program will focus on growth opportunities for technology transfer as well as national security risks and the challenges that accompany innovation.
After each session, speakers will take audience questions.
Innovation and Technology Transfer
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
John R. Allen
President, The Brookings Institution
Please join the Wireline Committee for a Brown Bag Lunch discussion of the FCC’s plan to transfer universal service funds, currently held in private bank accounts by the Universal Service Administrative Company, to the United States Treasury.
Speakers
- Deena Shetler, Acting Deputy Managing Director, Federal Communications Commission
- Cara Voth, Counsel, Office of Managing Director, Federal Communications Commission
- Fred Theobald, Director of Financial Operations, Universal Service Administrative Company