Towards a Federal Data Agenda for Communications Policymaking

TOWARDS A FEDERAL DATA AGENDA FOR COMMUNICATIONS POLICYMAKING
[SOURCE: Social Science Research Council]
The SSRC-sponsored Data Consortium for Media and Communications Policy has prepared a paper entitled "Toward a Federal Data Agenda for Communications Policymaking." The paper outlines some of the key challenges surrounding data collection, access and analysis for media and communications policy in the United States, and makes a number of recommendations for how to address some of the most salient problems in this area. Prepared by Dr. Phil Napoli of the McGannon Center and Joe Karaganis of the SSRC, the paper is the product of several months of consultations and discussions with a wide range of media policy researchers, advocates and policy-makers. The principal findings and recommendations hit on 1) internal data collection, 2) content archiving, 3) 3rd party data and 4) the creation of Federal Advisory Committee on Data Quality and Integrity.
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/media/dataconsortium/dataagenda.page