This report examines how Philadelphia's municipal wireless initiative
helped shape the national debate regarding the need for public
broadband infrastructure and the impact the project's successes and
failures had on the local community.
The Case for Universal Broadband in America: Now! finds that wide swaths of America have no broadband at all, or only "fraudband"
that is so slow, unreliable, expensive and/or consumer-unfriendly that
it cannot bring Americans the benefits of universal broadband that
President Bush cited back in 2004.
The SSRC-sponsored Data Consortium for Media and
Communications Policy has prepared a paper entitled "Toward a Federal Data
Agenda
for Communications Policymaking." The paper outlines
some
of the key challenges surrounding data collection, access and analysis
for
media and communications policy in the United
A practical, hands-on guide for citizens who care about television's role in their lives and want to maximize the public benefits that come from the public's airwaves.
