Tag Archives: White House

TPRC gains interest of Washington policy officials

Written by Rohan Samarajiva on October 11, 2009 — 1 Comment

TPRC was the first organization set up to connect scholarly research and communication policy/regulation. CPRsouth, which is just three years old, was modeled on TPRC and EuroCPR. CPRsouth differs from its sister organizations by its explicit focus on capacity building and mentoring, tasks that are looked after by the well established universities and research institutes [...]

Posted in Events | Also tagged Alison Gillwald, Andrew McLaughlin, Federal Communications Commission, John Giusti, Jonathan Aronson, Judith Mariscal, Peter Cowhey, TPRC, Trade Representative

USA: Obama details Recovery Plan but short on Broadband goals

Written by Chanuka Wattegama on January 26, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Barack Obama used his first weekly address as U.S. president to provide more details of his proposed US$825 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan that, among other things, will upgrade classrooms, invest in renewable energy and expand broadband Internet access. Obama stated his intention to invest in these areas during the presidential debates in September [...]

Posted in General | Also tagged Barack Obama, Broadband, broadband access, broadband Internet access, emergency communications system, International Data Group Inc, law enforcement, PC World, renewable energy, road network, United States, USD

New ‘Net Neutrality’ policy would clog the Internet?

Written by Chanuka Wattegama on November 28, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Reproducing an op-ed piece from elsewhere: Barack Obama, self-confessed BlackBerry addict, will undoubtedly be the most tech-savvy president in history. But being tech-savvy isn’t the same as being tech-smart. The combination of Obama in the White House and new leaders of key tech-related committees in Congress should send warning flags up for all who cherish [...]

Posted in General | Also tagged Barack Obama, Broadband, broadband infrastructure, Congress, federal law mandating net neutrality, Henry Waxman, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Internet Service Providers, James G. Lakely, Jay Rockefeller, Senate Commerce Committee, technology sector, web traffic

A world free from 9/11s and tsunamis?

Written by Chanuka Wattegama on September 12, 2008 — 1 Comment

Exactly seven years from yesterday (still today to some), early in the morning on September 11, 2001, nineteen hijackers took control of four commercial airliners en route to San Francisco and Los Angeles from Boston, Newark, and Washington, D.C. The hijackers flew two of the airliners, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, [...]

Posted in Disaster | Also tagged Alberta, Asia, Boston, Boxing Day, Colombo, communication technologies, conventional fixed wireless telephones, Gordon Gow, hazard alert systems, India, Indonesia, International Development Research Centre, Java, LIRNEasia, Los Angeles, mobile phones, Newark, Pennsylvania, Pentagon, Peter Anderson, public network, remote alarm device, SAN FRANCISCO, satellite radio, satellite technology, Shanksville, Simon Fraser University, South Towers, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan government, Thailand, United States Capitol, University of Alberta, Very Small Aperture Terminal, VSAT, west coast, World Trade Center

Tag Archives: White House

TPRC gains interest of Washington policy officials

USA: Obama details Recovery Plan but short on Broadband goals

New ‘Net Neutrality’ policy would clog the Internet?

A world free from 9/11s and tsunamis?

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