Broadband Transparency: Network Research, Empowered Users, and Sound Policy

Broadband Transparency:
Network Research, Empowered Users, and Sound Policy

Wednesday, January 28, 2008
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

New America Foundation
1630 Connecticut Ave NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC 20009

As the Internet has evolved -- moving from a relatively small set of networks used by researchers to a worldwide platform used by over a billion people -- its performance has become harder to analyze and understand. Researchers lack access to critical data about the current state of broadband networks, and users can find it difficult or impossible to understand the performance and characteristics of their Internet connections.

Transparency has always been an essential component of the Internet's success, and, to remedy today's information gap, researchers need resources to develop new analytical tools. At this event, speakers will discuss the importance of advancing research in network measurement tools and introduce new developments that will benefit end-users, innovators, and policymakers.

Keynote
Vint Cerf
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist
Google

Featured Speakers

Sascha Meinrath
Founder, Open Technology Initiative
Research Director, Wireless Future Program
New America Foundation

Larry Peterson
Robert E. Kahn Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science
Director, PlanetLab Consortium
Princeton University

Ed Felten
Director, Center for Information Technology Policy
Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs
Princeton University

To RSVP for this event:
http://www.newamerica.net/events/2009/broadband_transparency

For questions, contact Stephanie Gunter at (202) 986-2700 x 340 or gunter@newamerica.net