Connecting America: Broadband Policy Issues and Options for State Legislatures
Foundation for State Legislatures Partners Project
NCSL Fall Forum, Phoenix, Arizona
November 27-30, 2007
Sessions, Handouts & Links
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Broadband TelePresence Demonstration and Tour of Cisco
Participants will visit Cisco’s Phoenix office to see a broadband application that combines advanced audio, true high definition video and interactive elements to create unique, “in-person” experiences between people, places and events over the IP network.
Session Materials:
Cisco Telepresence
NextGenWeb
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Connecting America Project Breakfast Business Meeting
Connecting America project members will discuss project deliverables and plan the agenda for future partners meetings.
Presiding:
Senator Carol Fukunaga, Hawaii, Project Co-Chair
Senator Orville B. Smidt, South Dakota, Project Co-Chair
9:15 am - 10:00 am
Broadband Case Studies: California's Broadband Task Force
Co-Sponsored with the NCSL Communications, Financial Services and Interstate Commerce Committee.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006 created the California Broadband Initiative to establish broadband networks, to ensure government agencies are using the best technologies to serve the people and to identify and eliminate obstacles to making broadband internet access ubiquitous in the state. Members of the task force will discuss the findings and recommendations.
Co-Moderators:
Senator Carol Fukunaga, Hawaii, Project Co-Chair
Senator Orville Smidt, South Dakota, Project Co-Chair
Speaker:
Anne Neville, Manager, Broadband Initiative, Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, California
Session Handouts:
California Broadband Task Force Preliminary Report - June 25, 2007 (pdf)
Speaker Biography
10:15 am - 11:45 am
Digital Entertainment: Closing the Broadband Gap
Co-sponsored with the NCSL Communications, Financial Services and Interstate Commerce Committee.
Broadband entertainment applications (such as digital audio and video) drive consumer demand for high speed Internet. This session will discuss how states can encourage the creation of digital content in ways that can promote economic and workforce development and help to bring broadband to underserved areas.
Co-Moderators
Senator Carol Fukunaga, Hawaii, Project Co-Chair
Senator Orville Smidt, South Dakota, Project Co-Chair
Speakers:
Assemblyman Upendra Chivukula, New Jersey
Lawrence Carroll, Senior Manager Government Affairs and Public Policy Counsel, Comcast, Pennsylvania
Brian O'Leary, NBC Universal, New York
Session Handouts:
New Jersey 2007 S.B. 2526 (business tax credit for digital media content expenses)
Speaker Biographies
 Connecting America Meetings
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