Report: Broadband adoption efforts must eliminate "access barrier" - 2009-06-08 13:51:23 | Broadcasting & Cable
June 8, 2009
Broadband adoption efforts need more money and more data. That appeared to be the bottom line of a report released Monday and drawn from a February summit on how broadband policy can best "advance the interests and needs of communities and color," with a focus on "socially, financially, or culturally" disadvantaged populations.
The summit was a collaboration of five host organizations: the National Urban League, National Council of La Raza, the Asian American Justice Center, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, and the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council. Its goal was to produce policy recommendations for the Obama administration, which has made broadband adoption one of the keys to its economic recovery plan...
Broadband adoption efforts need more money and more data. That appeared to be the bottom line of a report released Monday and drawn from a February summit on how broadband policy can best "advance the interests and needs of communities and color," with a focus on "socially, financially, or culturally" disadvantaged populations.
The summit was a collaboration of five host organizations: the National Urban League, National Council of La Raza, the Asian American Justice Center, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, and the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council. Its goal was to produce policy recommendations for the Obama administration, which has made broadband adoption one of the keys to its economic recovery plan...
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