04-20-09 | Aneesh Chopra Announced as Nation’s First CTO

News leaked Friday that Aneesh Chopra, Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia, has been appointed the first federal CTO. President Obama made the official announcement Saturday. While working in Virginia, Chopra lead a highly successful effort to ramp up broadband deployment around the state, which Nancy Scola chronicled in her feature, “Broadband Done Right.” Creative public-private [...]

04-06-09 | Wire a Broadband Stimulus

This week, the Federal Communications Commission will begin designing a plan for improving broadband access and speeds for all Americans. The comment period for how to spend taxpayer funds on the project, which includes $7.2 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, opens Wednesday; the final plan is due next February. But as Mark Lloyd [...]

04-02-09 | Much Ado About Broadband

The economic stimulus funding for broadband deployment should require policymakers to determine first what connectivity standards are necessary before spending any money.

01-05-09 | The Top 12 Science Progress Features of 2008

Here’s a look back at the most popular features we ran in the past year. Some of them dealt with major controversies over political interference with science at the Environmental Protection Agency, the teaching of creationism, and access to reproductive health services. Others tackled challenges of a networked world, or considered how policy can better harness the talents of a burgeoning scientific workforce.