Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) noted during his opening remarks that FirstNet has achieved its greatest milestone with the release of the Request For Proposal (RFP) to award a contract for the deployment and operation of the network. Chairman Walden cited that early controversy hobbled FirstNet’s efforts, but if they are able to maintain the timeline for the RFP process, proposals will be due just one year after the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. That report identified several risks FirstNet may face, including: meeting statutory responsibilities and how they can become a self-funding entity. Chairman Walden also addressed the concerns of FirstNet choosing to establish a private-public partnership, rather than a
The Netsilik and the Chipewyan were both tribes that lived in really tough area with extreme low temperature and a lot of ice that doesn’t allow any kind of farming. These tribes rely on deer hunting a lot and the process of using the meat is handled by women. Any kind of sewing, cooking or preparation of the meat to be used is done by women, but even though women have a big role in the post hunting life in both of these communities, they have quite different roles. First, they approach kinship in two different ways. The Netsilik have a bilateral descent system, which is similar to what we have in the United States today, but not completely. Netsilik have personal kindreds which are blood relatives of a person on his or her generational level which we don’t have. The Chipewyan system is
The Trio Program here at Elgin Community College is to help students with disadvantaged backgrounds, such as documented disabilities (learning or physical), financial problems (low-income family/household) and those who are a 1st generation college student (parent(s)/legal guardian(s) didn’t graduate from a 4-year college). The Trio program provides 3 different programs, which is: (1) The Trio Student Services (SSS), (2) The Trio Student Services English as a second language (SSS/ESL), and (3) The Trio Upward Bound (UB).
...are accountable to a board of directors and shareholders and publish annual reports that are public record so to make sure there financial standards are on the up and up.
Although the net neutrality debate didn’t come into the spot light so long ago, it has sparked controversy in the communications world. This concept provides a positive impact to the consumers, competition and network owners/internet service providers. It broadens the aspect of equality, which the open Internet was first based on. The profound effects on the aforementioned players provide a supported purpose to regulate the notion of net neutrality.
The relevant frame concept is having a goal for your organization. The problem that HBI is having is the disconnect between what they want the Network Administrative Organization (NAO) to do in terms of community service during their training and what is actually possible for
The Net Neutrality debate, or more appropriately the non-net neutrality debate, was first sparked by Ed Whitacre, the Chief Executive Officer of ATT in 2005 after his statement, “Now what [content providers] would like to do is use my pipes for free, but I ain’t going to let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it” (Kramer).
...among other things, an experiment in anarchism: a group of independent, free individuals acting without coercion and defining their own rules. The internet is exciting because there is no central authority to decide what is and is not allowed, who can talk and who cannot. This freedom is one of the intangible features that makes the internet a wonder of the modern world. Senate bill 314 seeks to destroy that freedom with artificially imposed guidelines; it seeks to impose an authority where there has been none and where the citizens do not want or need one. This is perhaps the most destructive feature of Senator Exon's proposal: it would corrupt the atmosphere of freedom that many net users find so enticing. If Senator Exon spent some time on-line, perhaps he could understand how precious this experiment really this, and perhaps he would not be so quick to end it.
The concept of Net Neutrality is one with large amounts of controversy behind it. The idea that the internet would give certain types of traffic priority, such as web page requests over video streaming, is necessary to support network growth while others stake the claim that giving this priority undermines the established internet principles of free speech and non-exclusivity. The Federal Communications Commission has put policies in place to strive to a more neutral internet, one such policy being the Open Internet Order. There is heavy debate over whether the internet should be neutral and around whether or not there should be regulations in place to dictate what contents can travel faster than others can. We will be working for Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) in support of net neutrality. Markey argues that net neutrality law is the “Declaration of Independence for the Internet,” where restrictions set on certain types of content on the internet do not limit freedom of expression.
...tor, 1992). Perhaps the LULU risk that the public is hearing from the ãexpertsä is in fact inaccurate. As a future recommendation for NIMBY conflicts, both the public and technical community views should be treated as problematic. Also, there should not be such a stereotypical view of leaders of activist groups as being irrational, over-emotional, or ill informed. Finally, NIMBY activists should see themselves as part of the situation that the project will address, instead of focusing on just the narrow issue of opposing the project. They must see the larger picture and be willing to offer and maybe help implement alternatives to the project.
Net neutrality is the basic principle that “the government who is in charge should oblige all of the internet service providers to always and equally treat all the data that is being sent around the web and to not discriminate against any type of user or company. This means that internet service providers cannot block or slow down in any way websites or any online content.” (Gilroy 1). The main issue that will be talked about in this essay is the fact the
What we know today as the Internet began as a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project in 1969, which was designed to connect several research databases across the country. However, until the end of 1991, the advances were almost completely technical, as the goals set by those responsible in its growth were beyond what the hardware was capable of providing. In 1988, the Internet began to receive attention in the popular press, when the first documented computer virus was released at Cornell University. 1991 marked the beginning of the transition of the Internet as we know it today, with the National Science Foundation’s reinterpretation of its Acceptable Use Policy to allow for commercial traffic across its network, the development of the first graphic interfaces, the formation of the Internet Society, and the formation of ECHO (East Coast Hang Out), one of the first publicly available online communities.
Supporters of a new, regulated internet suggest that the federal government take control of the internet. Tom Wheeler from the Federal Communications Commission suggested a new age of online regulation, stating that the Internet has become so crucial that it needs a category similar to any other public utility so the government has more ability to regulate it (“A Plan to Treat Web”). This would make the internet equivalent to electricity or water, forcing consumers to pay for how much they use, and the speed at which they want the access. The necessary move to regulate internet plans to safeguard consumers and businesses from Internet Service providers trying to boost their profits by selling preferential treatment to some websites for speedier delivery of their videos and other content. Although the FCC would not have the ability to regulate the prices consumers pay like they do with land-line service. (A Plan to Treat Web”). This ensures that customers will not pay unfair prices compared to other consumers, although they wonder whether or not this will ring
An interesting historical paradox is that, although the Internet has U.S. Defense Department origins, it is scarcely perceived as a public utility by most users anymore. (Abrahamson, JMQC vol 75, no 1, p. 16) Public reaction to the specific and continuing privatization of the Internet has been anything but an organized protest. Greater portions of it have, in name as well as effect, become privatized by larger corporations. This includes Microsoft, the largest player in the nation’s information technology marketplace. This conglomerate is widely recognized as a commercial enterprise with well-documented monopolistic tendencies.
Sullivan, A 2001, 'Who's running this network anyway', Network World, suppl. Power Issue, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 61-2.
The Internet has undergone a remarkable transformation since its early days. The original Internet was a low-speed, text-based network used to connect a few government sites to the research and defense contracting community. The Department of Defense began a project known as ARPAnet (Advanced Research Project Agency Network) back in the late 1960's, starting the first internet. It was designed by the network architects to interconnect government computers with defense contractors (Banta 2). The design of the network was such that no one computer system was dependent upon the functioning of any of the other computer systems. If any one computer network node was destroyed, such as in a nuclear attack, the rest of the network would continue to operate (Banta 2).