communications and society

This report maps the effects of the digital revolution on the business environment, the nature of work and the role of leadership in navigating the organization through the constantly changing landscape.

Despite the Internet being essential to life as we know it in 2014, only a small percentage of people understand how it really works.

This year’s Forum will explore the tension of values among security, innovation, openness and privacy, as played out on Internet policies, and propose constructive recommendations for ensuring free expression, consumer choice, a secure country and a vibrant economy.

Columbia Law School Professor Tim Wu is a pioneer of the highly-publicized net neutrality principle — a phrase he coined — which asserts that all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should treat data within their networks the same. He recently spoke about neutrality at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC.

This report is a cross sector, bi-partisan report that highlights twenty-six action steps to foster learning networks, equity and access, interoperability, digital literacy, and learner safety, privacy and trust.

This report looks at the changing landscape of video regulation and the fundamental shift in how video is being viewed.

During the 2013 Forum on Communications & Society, leaders of the open government movement dove into some honest and contemplative conversations about who we serve, how to engage citizens in the work of opening and engaging with government.

Telecommunications policy raises numerous controversial issues but two debates underlay all others.

Of the world’s seven billion people, about 2.4 billion have access, in some way, to the Internet. The ability to connect many-to-many has led to some remarkable events and phenomena in recent years. The tools did not cause the Arab Spring, but they did allow for better organizing, amplification of messages, and the ability to show the world what was happening minute-by-minute, tweet-by-tweet. A self-immolation in Tunisia went pretty much unnoticed when only 28,000 of the country’s population subscribed to Facebook, but it was entirely different when that number was close to two million.

This report describes the developments in information and communications technologies and then explores, particularly, innovations in payment systems, and alternative currencies.