After the Windfall: Sustainable Broadband Infrastructure in the Long View

"After the windfall: Sustainable broadband infrastructure in the long view"
Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009
2-3 pm in Rm. LIS 126

Christian Sandvig, Communication
Matt Crain, Institute of Communications Research
Emily Shaw, Library and Information Science

This talk will discuss the Tribal Digital Village (TDV), a successful community-based project to provide wireless Internet to remote Indian reservations in California. This example will be used as a way to reflect upon the recent broadband stimulus initiative proposed by the Obama administration. By examining some of the hard problems facing rural communities unserved by broadband we will consider the public policy implications of the stimulus and the challenges of its implementation.

Note: This talk will be broadcast as a LIVE LEEP session. See instructions at the bottom of this message.

About the Speakers:
Dr. Christian Sandvig is an Associate Professor of Communication and a Research Associate Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Illinois Center for Wireless Systems. He studies communication technology and public policy. In 2002 Sandvig was named a "next-generation leader in science and technology policy" in a junior faculty competition organized by Columbia, Rutgers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2006 he received the Faculty Early Career Development Award from the US National Science Foundation (NSF CAREER).

Matt Crain is a doctoral student at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Matt is interested in the changing structures and technologies of the media and communication industries and the regulatory systems that shape them. He teaches courses in media literacy and digital media at Illinois and has presented research on media ownership and video web logging at Academic Research for Media Reform and the Chicago Ethnography Conference respectively. Matt holds a master's degree in new media studies from DePaul University and a bachelor's degree in multimedia production from Bradley University. His research article "The Rise of Private Equity Media Ownership in the United States" recently appeared in the International Journal of Communication.

Emily Shaw holds the M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois. She is currently pursuing a Certificate of Advanced Study in digital libraries from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Her research interests include electronic publishing, the creation and use of digital libraries for information storage and sharing, the social uses of unlicensed spectrum, and information and communication services and usage in underserved communities in the U.S. abroad. She received a B.A. in Anthropology from Barnard College in New York and has taken an anthropological approach to her studies of communication and information science since completing a thesis investigating the social uses of instant messaging programs among college students.

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CII Speaker Series LIVE Broadcast!
Good news for LEEP students and other off-campus community informatics fans: We will be broadcasting the following CII Speaker Series events via the Moodle Auditorium. This will give you an opportunity to participate in the event in real time and ask questions by sending a chat to the moderator.

Upcoming LEEP broadcast:

February 25 - After the windfall: Sustainable broadband
infrastructure in the long view
Christian Sandvig, Emily Shaw and Matt Crain

To access the live session space, follow this link: http://courses.lis.uiuc.edu/mod/gslisircchat/view.php?id=23150 or login to the course site from www.lis.uiuc.edu, scroll down and choose Auditorium under GSLIS Community located on the right hand side of the page.

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For tips on how the Live Session works, see the Help Desk LEEP Live Session Tutorial: http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/itd/tutorials/LiveSession/.

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This event is part of the community informatics initiative -- http://www.cii.uiuc.edu/

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