Benton publishes Jim Kohlenberger's Universal Affordable Broadband for All Americans: How to Modernize Universal Service for the 21st Century and Connect Americans to a New Era of Digital Opportunity. The report’s research and analysis offers a starting point for major Universal Service Fund reform and modernization during the Obama administration. Penn State University's Jorge Reina Schement leads The Future of Universal Service Project, a collaboration with Benton Foundation, working with other Penn State scholars including Amit M. Schejter, Richard D. Taylor, Robert Frieden, and Krishna Jayakar. Other scholars contribute including Sharon Strover, University of Texas, Austin, Harmeet Sawhney, Indiana University, Justin Brown, University of Florida, Heather Hudson, University of San Francisco, and Nancy C. Kranich, former president, American Library Association.
Charles Benton asks President Bush for a national broadband strategy to guarantee universal, affordable communications access for all Americans.
Benton and Robert Woods Johnson Foundation launch New Routes to Community Health.
Benton publishes What's Going on in Community Media? with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Cecilia Garcia becomes Executive Director of Benton Foundation (serves until 2013).
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