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Broadband

BNA's Web Watch is prepared by Laura Gordon-Murnane. Documents and Reports are arranged first by federal government, state governments, international governments, and nongovernment organizations. E-mail suggestions for future weekly topics always welcome.

Federal Government

Commerce Department
Assistant Secretary Nancy Victory's address before the Alliance for Public Technology Broadband Symposium Feb. 8, 2002: Creation of a Broadband Universe: A Big Bang Theory

Commerce Department - Technology Administration
Understanding Broadband Demand: A Review of Critical Issues (September 2002)

2020 Visions, Transforming Education and Training Through Advanced Technologies (September 2002)

Transcript of: Understanding Broadband Demand, a Technology Administration Digital Rights Management Workshop (WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2002)

Transcript of: U.S. Department of Commerce Understanding Broadband Demand: Broadband & Business Productivity - a Corporate R&D Roundtable (March 25, 2002)

Congressional Research Service
Broadband Internet Access and the Digital Divide: Federal Assistance Programs (June 27, 2002) Select Long Reports then page down and look for title of report.

Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission has issued a companion piece to the ''Alternative Frequencies for Use by Public Safety Systems'' by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (January 2002)

Report on High-Speed and Advanced Telecommunications Services Shows Nearly Ten Million Subscribers - Third Report (February 2002)

National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Economics and Statistics Administration
A Nation Online: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use of the Internet (February 2002)

Also from NTIA, special publications 01-48 and 01-49, Alternative Frequencies for Use by Public Safety Systems (December 2001) and Current and Future Spectrum Use by the Energy, Water, and Railroad Industries (January 2002)

National Academy of Sciences
Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits (2002)

National Academy of Sciences - National Academy of Engineering - University of Texas at Dallas
Issues in Science and Technology - "Solving the Broadband Paradox," Adam D. Thierer (Spring 2002)

National Institute of Standards and Technology
Security for Telecommuting and Broadband Communications - Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (September 2002)

Nongovernment Organizations

American Enterprise Institute
American Enterprise Institute fellow James K. Glassman has published the report, "The Economics of the Tauzin-Dingell Bill: Theory and Evidence," June 11, 2001, Executive Summary.

Benton Foundation
Bringing a Nation Online: The Importance of Federal Leadership (July 2002)

Cato Institute
Telecom and Broadband Policy After the Market Meltdown The Cato Institute’s Sixth Annual Technology & Society Conference (Thursday, November 14, 2002 8:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m.)

Conflict of Broadband Visions: Breaux-Nickles vs. Hollings (May 2002)

The Tauzin-Dingell Bill and the National Academy of Sciences Broadband Study: Calls for Broadband Freedom (December 2001)

Center for Democracy & Technology
Broadband Access Project Backgrounder

Center for Digital Democracy
Broadband Primer

Competitive Enterprise Institute
Broadband Dreams: The Tech Community Has a Vision (January 2002)

Computer Systems Policy Project
Building the Foundation of the Networked World (October 2001)

Information Technology Association of America
Building a Positive, Competitive Broadband Agenda

Instititute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Instititute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Draft Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks Part 16: Air Interface for Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems (Approved as IEEE Standard 802.16 by IEEE-SA Standards Board on Dec. 6, 2001; publication expected by March 2002)

TechNet
Building a Nationwide Broadband Network: Speeding Job Growth Stephen B. Pociask TeleNomic Research, LLC February 25, 2002
Position on a National Broadband Policy (January 2002)
A National Imperative: Universal Availability of Broadband by 2010 (executive summary)

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