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District of Columbia Gives Obama Model for Effective Transparency Strategy

Holiday Shapiro — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:06:08 -0800

Reforming the Federal Communications Commission

Stevie Converse — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:10:46 -0800

Start: 01/05/2009 - 00:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

A joint presentation of Public Knowledge and Silicon Flatirons, a Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado.

Tribune D.C. Staffers Bracing for Cuts, Consolidation

Holiday Shapiro — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:23:23 -0800

Verizon's Fiber-Optic Service Looks Primed to Enter District of Columbia

Stevie Converse — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:54:46 -0800

Open Federal Communications Commission Meeting

Mary Alice Crim — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:41:31 -0700

Start: 11/04/2008 - 06:03

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

The Commissioners' public meeting to discuss and vote on items that are before the Commission. Tentative agenda is here.

Hearing: Broadband Providers and Consumer Privacy

Mary Alice Crim — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:06:59 -0700

Start: 09/25/2008 - 13:02

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

The Committee will examine broadband provider practices with respect to consumer privacy. More information is available here.

Federal Communications Commission Open Meeting

Mary Alice Crim — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:18:26 -0700

Start: 09/25/2008 - 20:15

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

The Commissioners' public meeting to discuss and vote on items that are before the Commission.

An agenda is available here.

More D.C. Cuts for ABC News

Holiday Shapiro — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:49:57 -0700

McClatchy D.C. Bureau (Somehow) Avoids Layoffs and Buyouts

Holiday Shapiro — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:22:50 -0700

After Six Decades, Union-Tribune Shutters D.C. Bureau

Holiday Shapiro — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:32:36 -0700

Public, Educational, and Governmental (PEG) Access to Cable Television Hearing

Mary Alice Crim — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:24:25 -0700

Start: 09/17/2008 - 12:15

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

The Alliance for Community Media will testify at a House hearing on the affect of cable televisions' current regulatory and business environment on PEG programming. More information is available here.

The FCC’s Comcast Decision: Implications for the Open Internet

Mary Alice Crim — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:42:53 -0700

Start: 09/19/2008 - 13:20

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

The FCC’s recent decision that Comcast’s management of its broadband Internet networks violated federal policies has been widely recognized as an important milestone in the fight for an open Internet. The FCC’s order is certainly not the last word on the matter, considering Comcast’s appeal of the Commission’s decision, challenging the enforceability of the FCC’s 2005 Internet Policy Statement, which served as a basis for their decision.

White Space: Future of Wireless Capitol Hill Day

Mary Alice Crim — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:41:39 -0700

Start: 09/24/2008 - 18:22

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Save the Date! The Wireless Innovation Alliance will present an event and information session. Wireless Innovation Alliance information is available here.

Broadband Census for America

Mary Alice Crim — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:31:56 -0700

Start: 09/26/2008 - 18:26

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

BroadbandCensus.com, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Texas at Austin’s Robert S. Strauss Center, and the Virginia Tech eCorridors Program invite government officials, academic researchers and other key stakeholders to a half-day conference on collecting and sharing public data about high-speed internet access.

Future of Music Coalition Policy Day

Mary Alice Crim — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:59:57 -0700

Start: 02/11/2009 - 17:35

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Future of Music Coalition will hold a Policy Day at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C.

The 'Frill' Is Gone: Papers Forced to Cut D.C. Bureaus

Holiday Shapiro — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:43:53 -0700

D.C. Area Gets High Marks for Internet Speeds

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:54:41 -0700

Senate Bill Would Block Pentagon Propaganda

Stevie Converse — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:07:48 -0700

On Monday, Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) introduced S. 3099, a bill that prohibits the Defense Department from using government funds to spread propaganda.

Live Webcast: Google Unwired

Bliss Requa-Trautz — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:30:30 -0700

Start: 05/22/2008 - 09:00

End: 05/22/2008 - 10:30

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Watch from home here.

With Google, Larry Page has gone a long way toward achieving the audacious goal he and co-founder Sergey Brin set for the company: "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible."

D.C. Forging Surveillance Network

Thu, 08 May 2008 08:37:36 -0700

The D.C. government is launching a system today that would tie together thousands of city-owned video cameras, but authorities don't yet have the money to complete the high-tech network or privacy rules in place to guide it.