Internet Everywhere: Broadband as a Catalyst for the Digital Economy
Brookings Institution
November 27, 2012
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2012/11/27-broadband-economy
Broadband technologies power the country’s digital infrastructure and have become essential platforms for 21st century communications and commerce. One of the most important economic and policy issues facing the new administration is whether U.S. regulation of broadband platforms will help or hinder the kind of innovation, investment, competition and economic growth the country needs to climb out of the economic decline it has been experiencing in the last few years.
Former Brookings Senior Fellow Robert Litan and co-author Hal Singer, managing director and principal at Navigant Economics, will present policy recommendations from their soon-to-be-published e-book, The Need for Speed: A New Framework for Telecommunications Policy for the 21st Century (Brookings Press, 2013). Darrell West, vice president and director of Governance Studies, will moderate a panel of industry and academic experts on the current and future economic potential of broadband platforms for bringing the Internet everywhere, and catalyzing the digital economy.
After the program, speakers will take audience questions.
Introduction
Karen Dynan
Vice President and Co-Director
Economic Studies
Presentation
Robert E. Litan
Director of Research
Bloomberg Government
Hal Singer
Managing Director and Principal
Navigant Economics
Panel Discussion
Darrell M. West (moderator)
Vice President and Director
Governance Studies
Thomas Hazlett
Professor of Law & Economics and Director, Information Economy Project
George Mason University
Blair Levin
Communications and Society Fellow
The Aspen Institute
Robert E. Litan
Director of Research
Bloomberg Government
Michael Powell
President and CEO
National Cable & Telecommunications Association
Hal Singer
Managing Director and Principal
Navigant Economics