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Welcome to the Center for Advanced Communications Policy. Many of you know us as the former Office of Technology Policy and Programs. We have reorganized to better reflect our core competency in advanced communications technology and our continued growth as a national, regional and state resource for timely advice on advanced and emerging communications and technology policy. CACP continues to operate as a neutral authority, monitoring and assessing related legislative and regulatory issues, identifying future options through horizon scanning techniques, and promote a clearer understanding of the ever changing technology landscape.

 

  • Congratulations are to be extended to our own Dr. Helena Mitchell! She has been elected by the faculty of Georgia Tech to serve on the Academic Services Committee for a 3-year term.

  • "CACP graduate student Taylor Narewski honored with an ACC Student Athlete Award"
    On April 16th the CACP’s Taylor Narewski was honored along with forty other Atlantic Coast Conference student athletes at a luncheon in Greensboro, North Carolina. Narewski and the other student athletes were awarded Weaver-James-Corrigan and Jim and Pat Thacker postgraduate scholarships...
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  • Policy Change and the Accommodating Workplace: Issues, Barriers and Opportunities
    Paul M.A. Baker presented a paper “Policy Change and the Accommodating Workplace: Issues, Barriers and Opportunities (Paul M.A. Baker and Nathan Moon) at the International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence (ICADI) in St. Petersburg, Florida, February 22nd. ICADI focuses on approaches to enhance the ability of the aging to maintain independence in daily living at home, at work and in the community. These issues were addressed in seven ICADI tracks by an international cadre of presenters representing research and development, policy, practice and services, business, and consumer perspectives.
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  • Field testing by GT researchers
    Field testing by GT researchers and engineers yields early success
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  • Wireless RERC files FCC comments on “Amendment of the Commission’s Rules Governing Hearing Aid Compatible Mobile Handsets”, WT Docket No. 07-250
    On Dec. 16, 2007 the Wireless RERC filed comments to the FCC on Amendment of the Commission’s Rules Governing Hearing Aid Compatible Mobile Handsets, WT Docket No. 07-250. The Wireless RERC noted in response to the FCC’s solicitation that ongoing Wireless RERC research suggests that consumers continue to have problems with the interoperability of cell phones and hearing aids. In a recent Wireless RERC Delphi Policy study, an overwhelming majority of respondents identified “device incompatibility or poor interoperability,” as a very important or important issue with cell phones. Further, the Wireless RERC's Survey of User Needs (2002-present) continues to find evidence that consumers with hearing impairments have difficulty finding cell phones in the marketplace that are compatible enough with hearing aids. These findings reveal that cell phone users with hearing impairments are running up against barriers to full usability of their device, which could be addressed through the regulatory process. More Details
  • The ICT Study Group Series
    The ICT Study Group held a series of brown bag talks introducing the diverse work of the group during Fall semester 2007. The topics included “Sandy Springs and Dunwoody: New Models for Citizen Communications?”; “Accessibility in Municipal Wireless Networks: System Implementation and Policy Considerations”; "Legitimacy and Global Public Policy: The Case of the Internet"; and “The FCC vs. the Industry: managing public safety emergency communications and commercial wireless broadband deployment." The series will resume in Spring 2008, all ideas for topics and speakers are welcome. The brown bag talks are open to all. More Details
  • "Digital Democracy and Freedom of Speech"
    Paul M.A. Baker was one of four expert panelists at the "Digital Democracy and Freedom of Speech" webconference [http://www.whyy.org/digitaldemocracy/] held on October 9, 2007. The conference, accessible online, addressed questions such as the ability of todays digital technologies improve the average citizen exercise of freedom of speech; the impact of access to information and digital participation for people with disabilities, and the underserved; whether the US government has created institutional structures and a bureaucracy that encourages or discourages open dialogue in a virtual state, and whether the intersection of public policy and technology has created a soapbox or a minefield for the negotiation of freedom of speech. The 90-minute Digital Democracy webconference took place on Tuesday, October 9th, in the studios of WHYY, Philadelphia. To access the webconference archive, visit [http://www.whyy.org/digitaldemocracy/video.php].
  • "Telework and Telecommuting Programs within the Private Sector in Atlanta and Other Major US Cities"
    Nathan W. Moon gave a presentation "Private Sector Telework and Its Implications for Economic Development: Results of a Case Survey," at the Science, Technology & Innovation Policy (STIP) Program at Georgia Tech, in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday September 11, 2007. STOP is a collaborative program of the Enterprise Innovation institute and School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. Nathan's research was done as part of a Summer Innovation Internship to investigate science and technology issues relevant to economic development in the State of Georgia. [View PDF]
  • GIT Awarded $4.75 Million U.S. Department of Education Grant
    The Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP) and Atlanta's Shepherd Center have been awarded a $4.75 million Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) grant on wireless technologies aimed at enhancing the lives of people with disabilities. This second five-year grant, awarded from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research under the United States Department of Education, supports the continuation of the innovative wireless activities undertaken during the first five years of the Wireless RERC. MORE..
  • CACP staff submits FCC Filing on 700 MHz Spectrum Use.
    Authors Laurel Yancey and Helena Mitchell. For details go to CACP Policy page, Emergency Communications or click HERE
  • CACP staff had three articles in the 2006 special issue of the journal Work on Evidence-Based Practice in Workplace Accommodations:
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