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Communications and Information Policy

Subjects: Science · Technology

Art: Karlsson, Anneli, Celestial globe 1766, 2014 · Public domain (CC0)

Instructors: Dr. David D. Clark, Dr. Frank Field, Sharon E. Gillett, Dr. William Lehr
Term: Spring 2006
Level: Graduate
What's inside: 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 32 other files · 3 web pages
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Lecture 1: A Quick Guide to the Internet

Lecture 2: Application Design on the Internet

Lecture 3: EE 101

Lecture 4: Internet Interconnection

Lecture 5: Why have Regulators been so involved in Telecommunications?

Lecture 6: Overview of Methods of Technical and Policy Analysis Applicable to the Final Project. Discussion of Problem Definition and Issue Framing for Topics with Interwoven Technical, Social, Economic, and Political Dimensions

Lecture 7: Spectrum Management Reform, Part 1

Lecture 8: Spectrum Management Reform, Part 2

Lecture 9: Intellectual Property: Content and Digital Telecommunication Policy

Lecture 10: Architecture and Control

Lecture 11: Culture, Content and Copyright

Lecture 12: Challenges for Convergence: Interconnection

Lecture 13: Challenges for Convergence: Interconnection (cont.)

Lecture 14: Competition in Access Networks

Lecture 15: Case Studies: VoIP, Municipal Broadband

Lecture 16: Municipal Broadband (cont.)

Lecture 17: Network Neutrality

Lecture 18: Network Neutrality (cont.)

Lecture 19: IPTV

Lecture 20: Internet Governance

Lecture 21: Open Access, or Making Money Openly

Lecture 22: One Laptop per Child (aka $100 Laptop); the Internet and Developing Countries