Beyond Broadband Access Developing Data-Based Information Policy Strategies

After broadband access, what next? What role do metrics play in understanding "information societies"? And, more importantly, in shaping their policies? Beyond counting people with broadband access, how can economic and social metrics inform broadband policies, help evaluate their outcomes, and create useful models for achieving national goals? This timely volume examines not only the traditional questions about broadband, like availability and access, but also explores and evaluates new metrics more applicable to the evolving technologies of information access. Beyond Broadband Accessbrings together a stellar array of media policy scholars from a wide range of disciplines--economics, law, policy studies, computer science, information science, and communications studies. Importantly, it provides a well-rounded, international perspective on theoretical approaches to data-based communications policymaking in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Showcasing a diversity of approaches, this invaluable collection helps to meet myriad challenges to improving the foundations for communications policy development.

Richard D. Taylor holds the Palmer Chair in Telecommunications Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is cofounder and codirector of the Penn State Institute for Information Policy.

Amit M. Schejter is Associate Professor of Communications at Ben Gurion University of the Negev and at the Pennsylvania State University, where he also serves as codirector of the Institute for Information Policy.