[ICTs-and-Society] Call for Proposals: Evaluating and assesing broabdand policy

[James Losey]

Dear Colleagues,

I wanted to share this call for proposals for an experts workshop that we
will be co-hosting with the Institute for Information Policy at Penn State
University in September. Presenters at the workshop will be invited to
submit their completed papers for review by the *Journal of Information
Policy* (www.jip-online.org).

Best,
James


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> *Call for Paper Proposals*
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> *Is it working? Evaluating and assessing broadband policy*
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> *A by-invitation experts’ workshop*
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> *New America Foundation *
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> *September 19-21, 2012*
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> With broadband becoming the central means for providing information
> services in the 21st century, policymakers struggle with choosing the
> best model to ensure universal access, adoption and usage. Broadband policy
> choices range from massive government investments to total deregulation and
> everything in between—including various combinations of regulatory regimes,
> limited government investment and public-private partnerships. Debates
> regarding the best path to follow often tend to reflect ideological
> convictions or stakeholder interests. It is thus requisite to provide
> analytic scholarly input to the debate, delivered through the evaluation
> and assessment of broadband deployment policies that have been adopted in
> recent years.
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> The Institute for Information Policy at Penn State University and the New
> America Foundation are pleased to announce this call for paper proposals
> focused on discussing and exploring the assessment and evaluation of
> broadband policies and their implementation.  Proposals based on new
> research data and analysis are especially welcome.
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> Authors of the selected papers will be invited to present and discuss them
> during a three day by-invitation-only experts workshop designed to bring
> together up to a dozen American and international experts to be held at the
> New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., between September 19 - 21,
> 2012. This workshop is part of a series of events focused on “Making
> Policy Research Accessible,” organized by the IIP, with the support of the
> Ford Foundation and the Media Democracy Fund. For programs of previous
> workshops see: https://blogs.comm.psu.edu/iip/?page_id=24). Presenters at
> the workshop will be invited to submit their completed papers for review by
> the *Journal of Information Policy *(www.jip-online.org).
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> Topics of papers may include, but are not limited to issues such as:
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> ·         Methodologies for the assessment of broadband projects
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> ·         Case studies of assessment of broadband policy implementations
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> ·         Assessment and evaluation of specific BTOP projects and of the
> BTOP process
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> ·         Assessment and evaluation of state-level broadband policy
> implementations
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> ·         Case studies of other public and private broadband initiatives
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> ·         Theory of policy evaluation and its application to broadband
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> ·         The opportunity costs of delayed reforms and regulations
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> ·         Impacts of the rate of progress of broadband policy
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> ·         Comparative studies of broadband policies and their
> implementation
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> ·         Proposals for a meaningful set of metrics for broadband
> evaluation
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> ·         Identification of a uniform set of indicators for successful
> broadband policies
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> ·         Evaluation of broadband training and capacity-building programs
> and activities
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> ·         Evaluation of broadband programs for historically unserved or
> underserved communities
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> ·         Assessment of broadband initiatives directed at community and
> civil society institutions
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> Abstracts of up to 500 words and a short bio of the author(s) should be
> submitted to pennstateiip at psu.edu by July 15, 2012. Please write
> IIPNAFIIWWS: [YOUR NAME] in the subject line. Accepted presenters will be
> notified by July 31, 2012.
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