If We Build It, Will They Log On: Barriers to Broadband Adoption & Use
Session 33
Friday, April 03, 2009
11:00 AM
-12:15 PM
Room 151B
With adoption levels at around 55 percent today, the policy goal of near-ubiquitous broadband not only entails significant economic challenges, but demands a wider embrace of broadband applications within the medical, education, safety and environmental/energy sectors. State and local policymakers join nationally recognized advocates in a Town Hall session devoted to exploring barriers to broadband adoption and usage – and understanding what can be done to overcome them.
Speakers
Moderator
:
Ronald Duncan (GCI (General Communications, Inc.))
Panelists
:
Rachelle Chong (California Public Utilities Commission),
Mary Beth Henry (National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA)),
John Horrigan (Pew Internet & American Life Project),
Betty Ann Kane (District of Columbia Pubic Service Commission),
Mayor John Marks (U.S. Conference of Mayors),
Delegate Joe May (Virginia House of Delegates),
Karen Rheuban, M.D. (American Telemedicine Association),
H. Sally Smith (Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation),
Nicol Turner-Lee, Ph.D. (One Economy Corporation)
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