[BOAI] Fwd: [report-release-list] Berkman Center broadband study for FCC available for public comment

[Carolina Rossini]

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From: Seth Young <syoung at cyber.law.harvard.edu>
Date: Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:28 PM
Subject: [report-release-list] Berkman Center broadband study for FCC
available for public comment
To: report-release-and-press-list at eon.law.harvard.edu


 Good afternoon,

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is pleased to announce that the
draft of its independent review for the FCC --
*Next Generation Connectivity: A review of broadband Internet transitions
and policy from around the world*
-- has been posted for public comment at  *
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/index.do?document=293955* .

We invite everyone to read the draft and participate in the public comment
process; from the FCC's public notice:
-----
 On July 14, the Commission announced in a press release that Harvard
University’s Berkman
Center for Internet and Society would conduct an expert review of existing
literature and studies about
broadband deployment and usage throughout the world to inform the
Commission’s development of a
National Broadband Plan. [
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/index.do?document=291986]
 A draft of the study has now been completed. The Commission is seeking
public comment on the
study, and has posted the draft for public review at the following Internet
address:
*http://www.fcc.gov/stage/pdf/Berkman_Center_Broadband_Study_13Oct09.pdf* .
Specifically, the
Commission seeks comment on the following:
1. Does the study accomplish its intended purposes?
2. Does the study provide a complete and objective survey of the subject
matter?
3. How accurately and comprehensively does the study summarize the broadband
experiences of
other countries?
4. How much weight should the Commission give to this study as it develops a
National Broadband
Plan?
5. Are additional studies needed along the lines of the Berkman study?
6. Please provide any other comments on the Berkman study that you deem
relevant.
-----
For the full public notice, with directions on how to comment, see
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/index.do?document=293955 .

This report represents the outcome of a substantial and engaged team effort,
most extensively by Berkman Center researchers, with many contributions from
others elsewhere at Harvard and in other institutions and centers around the
world. The team was led by Yochai Benkler, the Jack N. and Lillian R.
Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School
and a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center. The Ford Foundation and the
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation generously supported the
Berkman Center's work on this report.

In the coming weeks, Professor Benkler and the Berkman Center team will be
reading feedback, incorporating what they can, and submitting a final draft
to the FCC.

Reuters has published a short story about the report at
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE59E16J20091015 .

Congratulations and thanks to everyone who contributed to this important
research.

Seth Young
Communications
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard University
+1.617.384.9135

-- 
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society --
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu -- exploring cyberspace, sharing in its
study, and helping pioneer its development
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