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- International Lessons (8/18/09)
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- Capitalization Strategies for Small and Disadvantaged Businesses (11/12/09)
- Future Fiber Architectures and Local Deployment Choices (11/19/09)
- Research Recommendations for the Broadband Task Force (11/23/09)
- Lessons for the National Broadband Plan from Local Officials Representing Under-served Communities (12/9/09)
- Global Broadband Connects America and the World: Infrastructure, Services and Applications (12/10/09)
- Review and Discussion of Broadband Deployment Research (12/10/09)
- Broadband and New Media Strategies for Minority Radio (1/26/10)
- The Broadband Availability Gap (5/6/10)
Workshop: International Lessons
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Location & Coordinators
Date: 8/18/09
Time: 9:30 am
Location: Room TW-C305 (Commission Meeting Room)
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street SW
Washington, DC 20554
Directions
Coordinator: Narda Jones
Phone: (202) 418-2489
Agenda and Participant Bios
Frequently Asked Questions
The goal of this workshop will be to provide an overview of the international experience with broadband, highlighting select national broadband strategies, with a particular focus on the deployment of broadband infrastructure, increase in adoption, and successful regulatory approaches. The Commission seeks to identify global best practices for broadband strategies within other nations that may have particular relevance to expanding broadband deployment, adoption and usage the United States.
Speakers and other participants will focus on a number of subjects concerning the international experience including national broadband strategies, regulatory and policy approaches; data on international broadband usage, adoption, competition, and pricing from select countries; and approaches to benchmarking such data. The workshop will focus on countries (and areas within those countries) similar to the United States (and areas within the United States) in terms of population, income, education, urbanization, and other criteria.
The workshop will discuss whether and in which areas the United States is behind relative to other countries; and of these, which areas the United States is on a path to catch up as well as which areas the United States is likely to stay behind in the absence of a policy intervention. Participants will also discuss those metrics which should be a priority for study and how these could then form a baseline for policy discussions in the United States.
Topics
The following are some of the preliminary topics that will be covered at this workshop. If you would like to discuss any other topics, please send us your suggestions.
- Review of other nations’ strategies for broadband deployment
- Review of data on international broadband usage and adoption
- Approaches to benchmarking analysis for such data
- Use of international comparison in U.S. policy formation
- Cost and availability of key inputs, particularly spectrum.
- Best practices
Agenda
9:30 am | Workshop Introduction, Paul de Sa and John Giusti Moderators |
9:40 am | Staff Presentation, Irene Wu FCC International Bureau |
9:45 am | Presentation, Yochai Benkler, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School |
9:50 am | Panelist Introduction, Paul de Sa and John Giusti Moderators |
9:55 am | Panelist Presentations Young Kyu Noh, Information and Communications Counselor, Embassy of Korea |
10:35 am | Panelist Discussion and Responses to Questions |
11:20 am | Closing Statement, Moderators |
11:30 am | Adjournment |
Related Documents
August 18, 2009
Overview of FCC Staff Research on International Broadband Data
Irene Wu, FCC International Bureau
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International Broadband Benchmarks
Tim Kelly, Lead ICT Policy Specialist, infoDev/World Bank
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Broadband Policy: Learning from International Experience
Jeffrey A. Eisenach, Ph.D. Empiris, LLC
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FCC Broadband Workshop: International Lessons
Deborah Lathen, BT Board Member
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- Remarks
International Lessons For Broadband Policy
Robert Atkinson, President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
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Broadband Policy: Learning from International Experience
Jeffrey A. Eisenach, Ph.D. Empiris, LLC
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International ICT and Broadband Development
Robert Pepper, Vice President Global Technology Policy
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