[1st-mile-nm] Citizen Participation

[Marianne Granoff]

 From another list. FYI

>FCC Insider Levin Calls for Citizen Participation, Internet News
>Obama's broadband policy chief asked knowledgeable people to 
>participate at the FCC works out its national broadband plan.
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>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/eLlPU_HU0jQ/3828071
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>U.S. Government Launches New Broadband Website - 226 Days until we 
>actually have a broadband plan..., dslreports
>Broadband.gov has launched as the centerpiece of the government's 
>effort to figure what to do to resolve our thoroughly mediocre 
>showing when it comes to broadband speed, price and penetration. The 
>(beta) website notes there's 226 days until the plan's finalized, 
>and offers a timetable for the various workshoups, discussions and
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>http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/US-Government-Launches-New-Broadband-Website-103277
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>One Last Warning Before America Screws Up Broadband Mapping - 
>Connected Nation poised to nab $350 million in taxpayer dollars, dslreports
>Last year, consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge penned a piece 
>that was by and large ignored by the Steve Jobs-obsessed technology 
>media. In it, Art Brodksy exposed broadband mapping group Connected 
>Nation as little more than a policy front group for AT&T and 
>Verizon. The group was created, Brodsky notes, to gloss over the
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>http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/One-Last-Warning-Before-America-Screws-Up-Broadband-Mapping-103305
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