More Than a Broadband Map

Understanding Actual Broadband Performance by Visualizing over 1,000,000 Tests Every Day

New America Foundation
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

How does your broadband speed compare against the rest of your city's or the rest of the world? What are the key factors that impede broadband performance?

Join the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative, and Vint Cerf - Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google - to learn about how the Measurement Lab (M-Lab) project is helping to answer these questions and more.

M-Lab is an open, distributed platform for broadband measurement. Founded in January 2009, M-Lab is an effort led by academic researchers and Open Technology Initiative, with the support of a broad range of companies and institutions. Since then, over 300+ terabytes of data have been collected and made openly available for researchers to analyze with state of the art tools provided by Google Inc. At this event, M-Lab is unveiling a new visualization of this data that allows comparison of key broadband metrics across the world.

Opening Remarks
Sascha Meinrath
Director, Open Technology Initiative
New America Foundation

Featured Speaker
Vinton G. Cerf
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist
Google

Panelists
Aneesh Chopra (invited)
U.S. Chief Technology Officer

Michael Copps (invited)
Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

Anne Neville (invited)
Director, State Broadband Data & Development Grant Program & National Broadband Mapping Program
US Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Taylor Reynolds (invited)
Specialist Analyst
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

To RSVP for the event:
http://www.newamerica.net/events/2011/measurement_lab

For questions, contact Stephanie Gunter at (202) 596-3367 or gunter@newamerica.net