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October 2015

Federal Communications Commission
October 26, 2015
2:00 p.m. -- 4:00 p.m.
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-10-13/pdf/2015-25885.pdf

At its October 26, 2015 meeting, the Committee will consider a recommendation from its Open Internet Order Consumer Disclosure Task Force regarding a proposed Open Internet enhanced transparency rule disclosure format. In addition, it is expected that the Committee will consider a recommendation presented by its Universal Service Working Group regarding modernization of the Lifeline program.


Connect2HealthFCC Beyond the Beltway Series

October 27-8, 2015
Detroit, Michigan
https://prodnet.www.neca.org/publicationsdocs/wwpdf/1007c2h.pdf
More info: http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2015/db1023/DA-1...

The Connect2HealthFCC “Beyond the Beltway Series” relates to the Connect2Health Task Force’s ongoing efforts to promote the transformative power of broadband technologies and next-generation communications services to improve access to health care services regardless of geography, time, distance, or socioeconomic factors. The focus in these Midwest cities will be on leveraging broadband technology to help reduce health disparities and on identifying opportunities to further encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in the broadband health technology space.

October 27, 2015 – Detroit, Michigan

  • Chairman Tom Wheeler and Commissioner Clyburn to host a Broadband Inclusion Roundtable, at the Henry Ford Innovation Institute, featuring local government, innovators, industry, educators, advocacy groups, community and other thought leaders to discuss the pressing societal concern over digital inclusion issues. The FCC seeks to ensure that all consumers can benefit fully from information and communications technologies in health.

October 28, 2015 – Detroit, Michigan

  • Connect2HealthFCC Task Force, in collaboration with Wayne State University and TechTown Detroit, will hold a public event that focuses on how broadband can be used to expand access, help reduce urban health disparities in Michigan, and foster innovation and entrepreneurship in the broadband and health technology space.

9:00 – 11:30 a.m. Wayne State University’s IBIO Integrative Sciences Center (6135 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, 48202)
The Forum’s morning program will focus on broadband connectivity as a new or unrecognized social determinant of health and will bring together the views of prominent health care leaders, practitioners, and researchers. The program will include a discussion on the strategic and practical implications of considering broadband connectivity as a social determinant of health and will consider the beneficial impact this framework could have on efforts to reduce and ultimately eliminate health and healthcare disparities. The session will also identify and discuss adoption barriers to broadband health technology and potential solutions. M. Roy Wilson, President of Wayne State University, will provide opening remarks.

1:00 – 3:00 p.m. TechTown Detroit @ The Garage (440 Burroughs St., Detroit, MI 48202)
The Forum’s afternoon program will focus on broadband health innovation and entrepreneurship in Detroit and surrounding areas, including the challenges and lessons learned in developing a connected health product concept, from design to funding and regulatory issues.


Connect2HealthFCC Beyond the Beltway Series

October 26, 2015
Cleveland, Ohio
https://prodnet.www.neca.org/publicationsdocs/wwpdf/1007c2h.pdf

The Connect2HealthFCC “Beyond the Beltway Series” relates to the Connect2Health Task Force’s ongoing efforts to promote the transformative power of broadband technologies and next-generation communications services to improve access to health care services regardless of geography, time, distance, or socioeconomic factors. The focus in these Midwest cities will be on leveraging broadband technology to help reduce health disparities and on identifying opportunities to further encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in the broadband health technology space.

October 26, 2015 – Cleveland, Ohio

  • Commissioner Mignon Clyburn to keynote at Cleveland Clinic’s 2015 Medical Innovation Summit
  • Connect2HealthFCC Task Force to hold data-gathering roundtable on how broadband technology is shaping the future of health and care in urban, underserved environments and on what gaps and challenges remain

Your Feedback is Building a Better FCC.gov

You spoke; we listened. Since our last update on our FCC.gov modernization project, we built a new Beta (ie test) version of FCC.gov based on your input, and we need your feedback again. Building upon the foundation of extensive user research done earlier in 2015 -- and coupled with additional input we will receive during this Beta period -- the new FCC.gov will be more useful and accessible to FCC stakeholders.

The new Beta site is Drupal-based and responsive, meaning the display will optimize based upon the device you are using to view the site such as PC, mobile phone, or tablet. The Beta website is also connected to our document databases, EDOCS and ECFS, via application programming interfaces (APIs). The APIs allow real-time EDOCS and ECFS updates to display in 'Headlines' and 'Most Active Proceedings'. FCC applications will also be updated and increasingly cloud-based, similar to our new Consumer Help Desk. All of the content that resides on the current FCC.gov has already been migrated to the new, Drupal-based site. We are currently integrating this content into new information architecture, meaning additional and improved ways of accessing and interacting with all the information currently available on FCC.gov. Finally, with considerable help from FCC's Bureau and Office staff, we have created a new taxonomy that will be used to classify web content. This will allow us to use Drupal features that make search easier, allow for better content discoverability across the site, and automate lists of content on a variety of topics.

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