Watch the Knight Commission Anniversary Symposium

Toward Healthy Informed Communities:
The Knight Commission Report One Year Later

Wednesday, 9/29,  10 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
The Newseum – Knight Broadcast Studio

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VIEW AGENDA: Download Symposium Agenda

DOWNLOAD POLICY PAPER: Universal Broadband: Targeting Investments to Deliver Broadband Services to All Americans

DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION: Blair Levin’s Universal Broadband Slides

MEDIA ADVISORY: New Plan Outlines Sensible Steps to Bring Broadband Service to Communities Across the U.S.

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EVENT DETAILS:
It has been one year since the Knight Commission released its Report, Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age, in which it presented 15 recommendations for improving the information health of America’s people, the information health of its communities, and the information vitality of our democracy. How far have these recommendations come along? On September 29, 2010, the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program will seek answers to this question by returning to the Newseum for a Symposium entitled “Toward Healthy Informed Communities: The Knight Commission Report One Year Later”. The event will mark the Report’s first anniversary with a discussion among key leaders and the unveiling of a new report on the policy reforms needed to achieve universal broadband access in the United States, a key recommendation of the Knight Commission.

The Symposium will open with remarks by John Bracken, Director of Digital Media at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, followed by a panel discussion on the impact of the Report and video comments by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. Immediately following, the Aspen Institute and Knight Foundation will unveil a new policy paper by Blair Levin, former executive director of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan. Levin has detailed a sensible plan for deploying broadband networks to 99% of our population in 10 years without requiring any additional federal funding. A panel of communications policy leaders will then further discuss the paper’s findings and the task of achieving broadband access for all Americans. (Download Blair Levin’s paper) (Download Blair Levin’s presentation)

Featured participants include Jon Leibowitz (Chairman, Federal Trade Commission), Larry Strickling (Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information, Department of Commerce), Patricia Harrison (President, Corporation for Public Broadcasting), Nancy Tate (Executive Director, League of Women Voters), Steve Coll (President, New America Foundation), Rey Ramsey (President, TechNet) and Kathy Grillo (Senior Vice President of Federal Regulatory Affairs, Verizon).