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vii This book is based on selected edited papers that were first delivered at a workshop, Beyond Broadband Access: Data-Based Information Policy for a New Administration, held at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., on September 22–24, 2009. We gratefully acknowledge the support and collaboration of many people in making both the workshop and this book possible. We would like to express our deep appreciation to Sascha Meinrath, director of the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative, and his staff at the Foundation for providing the facilities and personnel support for the program. We also wish to acknowledge the other co-organizers of the workshop: Professor Johannes Bauer, codirector of the Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law at Michigan State University; Professor Jorge Reina Schement, dean of the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University; and Professor Bin Zhang of the School of Economics and Management at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. We thank them and their institutions and organizations for helping make the workshop the success that it was. The workshop would not have been possible without the generous support of its diverse coalition of sponsors: AT&T, Google, the Media Democracy Fund, the Social Science Research Council, T-Mobile, and Verizon. We would like to acknowledge and thank them for providing the material support and resources that made both the program and the wide-range of attendees possible. It is the thoughtful generosity of both ACKNOWLEDGMENTS acknowledgments viii foundations and corporations like theirs that make public scholarship possible, and we hope their example will be an encouragement to others. We owe a great debt to Dr. Benjamin Cramer at the Institute for Information Policy at Pennsylvania State University for his invaluable assistance with matters of style and editing. Special appreciation and gratitude goes to the people of Fordham University Press for their support and guidance throughout this project: our colleague Professor Phil Napoli, director of the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham University and the editor of the Everett C. Parker book series; Fredric Nachbaur, director of the Press; Eric Newman, managing editor; and Will Cerbone. Last but not least, we have benefitted from the stimulating, and sometimes challenging, thinking of our colleagues at Penn State University, and from the support of the College of Communications, Dean Doug Anderson, Associate Dean Emeritus John Nichols, and Associate Dean Marie Hardin. In particular, we appreciate the cooperation of the college’s financial officers— Jane Agnelly, Annette Rice, and Dorie Glunt—in keeping our budgets organized and in-line. ...

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