Category: National Broadband Strategy
Remarks of Assistant Secretary Strickling at the Internet Governance Forum USA
Remarks of Lawrence E. Strickling, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, at the The U.S. Internet Governance Forum.
A discussion of the multistakeholder process as a tool for addressing the key issues that exist in the Internet policy space and to reaffirm our strong support for the model in the work we do. Delivered on July 16, 2015.
US Broadband Coalition Website
The US Broadband Coalition is a large and diverse coalition of entities that seeks to develop consensus on as many of the components of a national broadband plan as possible. On December 8, 2008, at an event on Capitol Hill, the Coalition issued an unprecedented Call to Action to President-elect Barak Obama and Congress to develop a comprehensive national broadband plan. The Call to Action included a framework for such a plan as well as a commitment by the members of the Coalition to continue to work together to explore the relevant issues in detail. For this purpose, the Coalition formed six working groups: Needs and Opportunities, Goals, Metrics, Availability, Adoption and Use, and Implementation.
400+ World Bank ICT projects
Members of the US Broadband Coalition
Comprehensive list of members belonging to the US Broadband Coalition.
FCC’s National Broadband Plan Portal
Site listing information and updates on the National Broadband Plan.
International Perspectives on the US National Broadband Plan
Video detailing the Broadband Breakfast Club. The site hosting the video describes the event as including “key industry officials and was moderated by Lynn Stanton, Senior Editor, TR Reports.” Any relation of this event to the acclaimed John Hughes coming of age film is tenuous at best.
US Broadband Coalition Adoption and Use Report
A REPORT OF THE ADOPTION AND USE WORKING GROUP
US BROADBAND COALITION
Policy Options to the Federal Communications Commission
Harvard’s Berkman Center: Broadband policy from around the world
Fostering the development of a ubiquitously networked society, connected over high-capacity networks, is a widely shared goal among both developed and developing countries. High capacity networks are seen as strategic infrastructure, intended to contribute to high and sustainable economic growth and to core aspects of human development.
US Broadband Coalition Report on a National Broadband Strategy
The accompanying report of the US Broadband Coalition culminates eighteen months of intensive effort to develop a comprehensive national broadband strategy that would be worthy of our great nation.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Section 6001(k)
Section of Reinvestment Act wherein “) Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the Commission shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, a report containing a national broadband plan.”
Free Press: “Dismantling Digital Regulation
On a cold February morning 13 years ago, President Bill Clinton made history by signing the Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law. It was the first signing at the Library of Congress and the first to be streamed live over the Internet. This symbolism was intended to capture the legislation’s promise of bringing the information revolution to the doorstep of every American. As President Clinton signed a bill he described as “truly revolutionary” and that would “protect consumers against monopolies,” he spoke of the future the law would bring. “Soon, working parents will be able to check up on their children in class via computer,” he said. “On a rainy Saturday night, you’ll be able to order up every movie ever produced or every symphony ever
created in a minute’s time.”
Americans are still waiting on the promise of this digital revolution.
ITIF: The Importance of Next-Generation Broadband Networks
Congressional Research Service: The Evolving Broadband Infrastructure
Over the past decade, the telecommunications sector has undergone a vast transformation fueled by rapid technological growth and subsequent evolution of the marketplace. Much of the U.S. policy debate over the evolving telecommunications infrastructure is framed within the context of a “national broadband policy.”
Congressional Research Service: What’s Different About Broadband?
Broadband network deployment projects represent large scale, long term investments that affect the overall productivity of economic activity in the geographic areas in which they are built, and thus fit the conventional definition of infrastructure. But they also have several characteristics that distinguish them from traditional infrastructure projects. These unique characteristics may dictate that government programs in support of broadband deployment be structured differently than conventional infrastructure programs.