[Sci-tech-public] IAP TUESDAY - (REVISED TOPIC) TPP seminar on Telecommunications

[Renee Robins]

******Please note new speaker and revised seminar topic for next 
week.  The original speaker is unavailable due to a family 
emergency.*******


Tuesday, January 18th

	Municipal Electric Utilities' Role in
Telecommunications Services

Sharon Gillett
Principal Research Associate
Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development

Noon - 1:30 pm
E40-298

In the late 1990s, just as many governments around the world finished 
privatizing their national telecommunications networks, a few hundred 
US communities began experimenting with local government provision of 
communications services.  This seminar will examine the drivers and 
scale of this trend in the US and elsewhere, the key role of 
municipal electric utilities, the potential for wireless technologies 
(especially unlicensed wireless), and the results of municipal 
experimentation with so-called "open access" broadband networks. 
Come hear the status of federal, state and local policies regarding 
municipal and open access networking, and contribute to the debate 
over the stakes involved.  The speaker will be Sharon Gillett, who 
leads the broadband working group for the Communications Futures 
Program.

Bring brown bag lunch; light refreshments provided.



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IAP 2005

Issues in Technology and Policy Seminar Series

Sponsored by the Technology and Policy Program
Tuesdays, Noon - 1:30 pm
E40-298

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Upcoming seminars:




Jan. 25:	Relying on Nuclear Energy Without Spreading the Bomb 
-- Or Offering
	Terrorist Targets
	Matthew Bunn, Senior Research Associate, Harvard University 
Belfer Center for Science
	and International Affairs

This seminar addresses the linkage between civilian nuclear energy 
technologies and the spread of nuclear weapons, and offers a number 
of metrics for judging technical and institutional proposals to break 
this linkage.  The talk will also briefly address the danger of 
terrorist theft of nuclear materials and sabotage of nuclear 
facilities, and how it might be addressed.  Matthew Bunn, a 
recognized expert on security issues related to nuclear stockpiles 
and currently Senior Research Associate in the Managing the Atom 
Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in 
Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, is also 
pursuing the TMP Doctoral degree here at MIT.


Bring brown bag lunch; light refreshments provided.

For further information contact Renee Robins, rrobins at mit.edu

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Renee J. Robins
Director of Special Projects, MIT Technology and Policy Program
Associate Program Director for M.Phil. Programs, Cambridge-MIT Institute
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room E40-381
Cambridge, MA  02139
(617) 253-7662  (tel)
(617) 452-2599  (fax)
rrobins at mit.edu (email)
http://tppserver.mit.edu (TPP web)
http://www.cambridge-mit.org (CMI web)
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