Keynote Amp Featured Speakers

MEDIA, WIRELESS & YOU Symposium

Symposium Theme:
Closing the Digital Divide, Creating Urban Intelligent Business Campuses


Keynote Speaker

Columnist Jim Carlini

Industry Consultant & Professor
INTELLIGENT BUSINESS CAMPUSES:
Keys to Future Economic Development


Featured Speaker

Gary Evenson
Telecommunication Administrator
Telecommunications & Wisconsin Public Service Commission


Featured Speaker


Gary is with the Transportation Department of Southeastern Regional Planning Commission in the area of Training.


CAMPAIGN NEIGHBORHOOD – CFNBA
Media, Wireless & YOU Symposium
October 23–24, 2007
MSOE/Milwaukee School of Engineering’
1047 N. Broadway
Milwaukee, WI 53202

Theme: Closing the Digital Divide, Creating Urban Intelligent Business Campuses

We have assembled three tracks to provide a framework for the content and discussion at the symposium.

The list below represents areas of focus in a track and will overlap with other tracts.


The issues/topics with the squares will be addressed at this forum.


POLICY WONKING TRACK

Issues for engagement of policy makers

 FCC UPDATE – Media Does Not Reflect Diversity
 FCC Consumer Advisory – Digital Television
 Benton Foundation Report – Chicago’s Media: Big, But Not Diverse
 What is the Wisconsin PSC? What is its Role in Oversight?
 Milwaukee Wireless Initiative Update
 Global Information & Communication
Selecting technology – Bidding and Oversight
Policymaker Roundtable
Radio, Television and Print Programming

TELECOMMUNICATION ACCESS & CRITIQUE

Access – People, Platform, Public Domains

 Milwaukee Public Library & the Federated System Review (Incomplete)
 Department of Public Instruction & Oversight (Incomplete)
 What Up in Literacy Training?
State-Funded Schools Role & Responsibility
Hardware & Software – SAM System
A Look at Cost – Procurement and Budget
Who/What/Why in the Selection of Library Systems
Competition and Customer Care – SAM, Voyager, Innovative, LOIS, Gordon Flesch, Pharos, etc.

MEDIA, CIVIL RIGHTS & SOCIAL JUSTICE TRACT

Disparities in access and control affects social and economic justice

 Media Reform, A Civil Rights Issue
 A Look at the Digital Divide in Milwaukee
Media and the Immigrant Issue
People of Color, Women & the Disable Speak out
MySpace & You Tube – The Independent Concept
Community Papers – Neighborhood & Citizen Journalism
Being Reactive for Proactivity in Ownership and Employment
 How Does the Milwaukee 100% Wireless Impact People of Color and the Working Poor?
 Using Media to Reform Media – Radio, Television, Print, Internet, Outdoor Advertising


The ones with the squares will be addressed at this forum.



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