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Communications and Society Program

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FOCAS 2010:
News Cities:

The Next Generation of Healthy Informed Communities

August 15-18
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Featured Publication

Rethinking Spectrum Policy

A Fiber Intensive Wireless Architecture

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Knight Commission

Informing Communities

The Report of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy,
a project of Aspen Institute Communications & Society Program and the Knight Foundation
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The overall goal of the Communications and Society Program is to promote integrated, thoughtful, values-based decision making in the fields of communications, media, and information policy.

Charlie Firestone

Charlie Firestone
Executive Director

Charlie Firestone joined C&S as executive director in 1989. Since then, the program has focused on the implications of communications and information technologies for leadership; the impact of new technologies on democratic, economic and social institutions; and the development of new communications policy models and options for the public interest. Read more»

Of the Press: Models for Transforming American Journalism

Of the Press: Models for Transforming American Journalism

Of the Press: Models for Transforming American Journalism details the insights and forward-thinking frameworks resulting from the 2009 Forum on Communications and Society (FOCAS) in which over 40 leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs addressed the crisis facing journalism, highlighted by recent closings and bankruptcies of numerous traditional news outlets. Read More »

Leveraging the Talent-Driven Organization

Leveraging the Talent-Driven Organization details how a number of firms are using social networking tools to open up communication, collaboration and learning across boundaries, and leveraging these tools to develop new products and real-time solutions for customers. The report is the result of the Inaugural Roundtable on Talent Development.

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Scenarios for a National Broadband Policy

Scenarios for a National Broadband Policy is the volume resulting from the 24th Annual Aspen Institute Conference on Communications Policy. Using the scenario building process, the report maps four imaginary scenarios of how the economy and society might evolve in the future, and the implications for broadband policy.

News

Blair Levin, Telecommunications Policy Strategist & Director of FCC's National Broadband Plan, to be Communications & Society Fellow

April 15, 2010
Event

Roundtable on Talent Development

July 29, 2010 - July 31, 2010
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19th Annual Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology

August 3, 2010 - August 6, 2010
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25th Annual Aspen Institute Conference on Communications Policy

August 11, 2010 - August 14, 2010
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2010 Forum on Communications and Society (FOCAS)

August 15, 2010 - August 18, 2010
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