The FCC's staff workshops on the national broadband plan continue this week with a Tuesday afternoon discussion about state and local government issues; benchmarks for evaluating dimensions of broadband across geographic areas and across time on Wednesday; and a Thursday focus on "big ideas" that have the potential to change the Internet, according to a notice released Monday. The Commission is holding a series of sessions throughout August and September to promote an open dialogue between the FCC and its constituents. The agency has a Feb. 17, 2010 deadline to submit its broadband plan to Congress.
Here's the speaker line up for this week:
State & Local Government
- Oregon Public Utilities Commissioner Ray Baum
- Colorado Deputy Chief Information Officer John Conley
- Florida Division of Telecommunications Director Charles Ghini
- Virginia Deputy Secretary of Technology Karen Jackson
- Mississippi Information Technology Director Craig Orgeron
- Jane Patterson, Executive Director, e-NC Authority, State of North Carolina
- Chicago Chief Information Officer Hardik Bhatt
- New York City IT Commissioner Paul Cosgrave
- Lafayette, La. City-Parish President Joey Durel
- El Paso, Texas Chief Information Officer Gary Gordier
- Howard County, Md., Cable Administrator Lori Sherwood
- San Francisco Chief Information Officer Chris Vein
Benchmarks
- One Economy Research Director Scott Berendt
- AT&T Assistant Vice President Richard Clarke
- Jon Eisenberg, The National Academies
- Public Knowledge Legal Director Harold Feld
- Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research/ Gregory Rosston
- Santa Clara University law professor Catherine Sandoval
Big Ideas
- Information Technology and Innovation Foundation President Robert Atkinson
-MIT Senior Research Scientist David Clark
- Palo Alto Research Center Senior Research Fellow Van Jacobson
- University of California-Berkley computer scientist Scott Shenker
- National Science Foundation's Taieb Znati
- Vuze CEO Gilles BianRosa
- CableLabs CEO Richard Green
- PBS Online Managing Director Angela Morgenstern
- Public Knowledge President Gigi Sohn
- Sezmi Chairman Phil Wiser
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