[Mitworld] Sterman on Transportation Policy, FCC's Huang on National Broadband Policy
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MIT World Newsletter
Volume 9, Number 30 | March 24, 2010
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Sustainable Accessibility: A Grand Challenge for the World and for MIT
February 9, 2010
Transportation systems, as we know them today, will simply not sustain the worlds’ growing population.
John Sterman says we need to see transportation in its complexity, and expect that our
planning efforts will have totally unintended, unexpected “rebound” effects.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/750
Speaker:
John Sterman PhD '82
Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management and Engineering Systems
Director, System Dynamics Group, MIT
Event Host:
Transportation at MIT
"There is just no question, the current transportation model does not scale. It isn't going to
happen—because everybody wants to be as rich as we are, and we all want to be richer than we are today."
-John Sterman
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The Future of Civic Engagement in a Broadband-Enabled World
March 1, 2010
The digital revolution that brought us Facebook, Twitter and YouTube could help revive participatory
democracy in the U.S., says Eugene J. Huang. He unveils the FCC’s plan for providing broadband
access to every American, and describes how its recommendations could spur more open government
and greater civic engagement.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/753
Speaker:
Eugene Huang
Government Operations Director for the National Broadband Task Force, Federal Communications Commission
Event Host:
Center for Future Civic Media
"We believe broadband has the potential to transform civic engagement. This transformation will take
a commitment from government, elected leaders, and the public at large, to renew democracy in a
broadband-enabled 21st century."
-Eugene J. Huang
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In The Pipeline:
Blended Learning Revisited
Presented By:
Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program
Speaker:
John Seely Brown
Visiting Scholar
USC
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