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Transforming Everything?: Evaluating Broadband's Impacts Across Policy Areas

Editat de Karen Mossberger, Eric W. Welch, Yonghong Wu
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 apr 2022
Broadband, or high-speed internet, has been called the most important infrastructure challenge of the century. It has the potential to connect remote communities, streamline health care services, and support innovation across education, economics, and numerous other fields. Given the growing and widespread investments in broadband, how can citizens and policymakers determine whether the promise of broadband is being fulfilled? Transforming Everything? offers a comprehensive guide to the complexities and possibilities of broadband as a social technology. It addresses challenges for evaluating broadband initiatives across diverse contexts and proposes guidance and methods for evaluation for policymakers and researchers. Contributors draw on pioneering research in program evaluation and information technology to explore broadband applications in health, education, and civic engagement. They also address key measurement and evaluation challenges in the field today, including issues in privacy and security and inadequate research methods for target populations. Collectively, the chapters in this volume raise important questions for improving research and evaluation in broadband use and producing actionable evidence in a highly dynamic environment. Transforming Everything? prepares readers with a critical understanding of broadband technology and the necessary evidence to assess whether broadband programs and policy are truly empowering the communities they serve.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190082888
ISBN-10: 0190082887
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 14 figures
Dimensiuni: 239 x 156 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

As the world invests in new broadband initiatives to meet unmet needs and foster innovation, this book demonstrates the importance of interdisciplinary evaluation tools for effective policy making. An essential read for anyone interested in a comprehensive policy approach accounting for diversity in broadband connectivity, adoption, and use.
Broadband deployment and adoption have become one of the most pressing policy concerns both in the United States and internationally. This book provides researchers, policy makers, and students with vital insights on how to conduct sound policy evaluation, with contributions reflecting hard-won field experience.
Many discuss broadband impact, but this book provides actual evidence. Drawing on approaches ranging from experiments, surveys, and spatial analysis to ethnography, this volume provides the latest documentation on broadband's availability, use, and impact. I highly recommend it for all interested in getting the most out of digital connectivity.

Notă biografică

Karen Mossberger is the Frank and June Sackton Professor in the School of Public Affairs and Director of the Center on Technology, Data, and Society at Arizona State University. Her research includes digital inequality, digital government, impacts of technology use, and local government. Her co-authored books on technology include Digital Cities: The Internet and the Geography of Opportunity (2012, Oxford), Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Participation and Society (2008, MIT Press), and Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide (2003, Georgetown University Press). She is an elected fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration.Eric W. Welch is Professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University, where he teaches organization and network theory, institutional design, and science and innovation policy. He received his doctorate from the Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs where he specialized in scienceand environmental policy. Dr. Welch currently directs the Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy Studies (C-STEPS) at ASU. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, refereed proceedings, and book chapters.Yonghong Wu is Professor in the Department of Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his PhD from the Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs where he specialized in public finance and science and technology policy. Dr. Wu's recent research has focused on state and local fiscal policy-making, public finance, and government funding of research and development. He has published one book and over 30 peer-reviewed articles, refereed proceedings, and book chapters.