This Week's Highlights:

The Benton Foundation and the Public Airwaves Coalition are sponsoring a discussion Monday entitled “Public Interest Obligations in the 21st Century: Where Do We Go From Here?"

The session, which takes place at noon at the National Press Club, is billed as a look at the new broadcast disclosure rules and the issues raised in the FCC’s “localism” proceeding. Among the featured guests are the two Democrats on the FCC, Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps – who were in the minority when the FCC’s GOP majority voted in December to relax media ownership rules.

Adelstein will also be on hand when key telecom and technology players gather for the annual conference of the Institute for Politics Democracy & the Internet this Tuesday and Wednesday.

Other scheduled speakers former White House Internet director David Almacy; National Telecommunications and Information Administration senior adviser Eric Werner; former Rep. Rick White, R-Wash., and Columbia University Internet expert Tim Wu.

And new media experts from the presidential campaigns of former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani are also slated to speak.

Discussion topics at the two-day session – to be held at the Renaissance Washington Hotel -- range from the impact of increased U.S. broadband penetration to the power of technology to change politics and government.