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Events and Presentations

    "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. Each recipient of the scholarship will receive $5,000 to use towards graduate education. These scholarships are awarded to student athletes that “have performed with distinction in both the classroom and in their respective sports, while demonstrating exemplary conduct in the community (ACC Press Release).” While competing in the 400 meters with the Georgia Tech Men’s Track Team for Coach Grover Hinsdale as both an undergraduate and now as a graduate student, Taylor has chaired the Honor Advisory Council, been a member of the Student Athlete Advisory Board, and represented Georgia Tech at the ACC Student Athlete Advisory Committee. Taylor has also been involved in the community as an Atlanta Community Food Bank volunteer, a Volunteer Usher at the Fox Theatre, and a 4th grade Sunday School teacher at his local church. Taylor joined the CACP last summer as a graduate research assistant and has worked with Dr. James White and Dr. Paul Baker on a municipal outsourcing study.
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    “Digital The FCC and the Industry: Managing Public Safety Emergency Communications and Commercial Wireless Broadband Deployment"

    Presented by: Helena Mitchell, Ph.D.

    “Digital Democracy and Freedom of Speech” webconference

    Presented by: Paul M.A. Baker
    Paul M.A. Baker was one of four expert panelists at WHYY’s “Digital Democracy and Freedom of Speech” webconference on October 9. The conference, which is accessible online, will address questions such as the ability of today’s digital technologies improve the average citizen’s ability to exercise their freedom of speech, 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 and access to information for people with disabilities, and the underserved, as well as “mainstream” society. The 90-minute Digital Democracy webconference took place on Tuesday, October 9th, from 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. EST. To learn more, submit questions for the panelists or access the webconference, visit www.whyy.org/digitaldemocracy.

    Private Sector Telework and Implications for Economic Development

    Presented by: Nathan Moon
    Enterprise Innovation institure and School of Public Policy Science, Technology & Innovation Policy (STIP) Program
    September 11, 2007
    [Powerpoint]


    Accessibility in Municipal Wireless Networks

    Presented by: Paul M.A. Baker
    Paul M.A. Baker presented a paper, Accessibility in Municipal Wireless Networks: System Implementation, Policy, and Potential Barriers for People with Disabilities, Paul M.A. Baker, and Avonne Bell, at the ICA Pre-conference Workshop Mobile Communication: Bringing Us Together or Tearing Us Apart?, 57th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, California, May 24, 2007. [Word] or [PowerPoint]



    Wireless Technologies Reaching People with Disabilities

    Prepared for the 2007 CSUN Conference
    Los Angeles, CA
    March 21-24, 2007
    PowerPoint Format




    Planning Socially Inclusive, Accessible Communities (S523)

    Prepared for the 2006 APA National Planning Conference
    San Antonio, Texas
    April 24, 2006


    Disabilities, (E) Voting and Access:
    A Survey of Voter Satisfaction

    Prepared for the 21st Annual International
    Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference
    Los Angeles, California
    March 24, 2006


    Increasing Access to Wireless Technologies
    Results of a Policy Delphi Study

    Presented by: Nathan Moon
    At the 21st Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference
    Los Angeles, California
    March 22, 2006


    Workplace Accommodations for Older Workers:
    An Examination of Employer Practice

    Presented by: Lynzee Head
    At the 21st Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference
    Los Angeles, California
    March 22, 2006


    Aging and the Accommodating Workplace:
    Policy Implications of Employer Practice

    Presented by: Lynzee Head
    At the 2006 International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence
    St. Petersburg, Florida
    February 3, 2006


    Workplace Accommodation Policy and Older Workers

    Presented by: Lynzee Head
    At the 2006 International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence
    St. Petersburg, Florida
    February 1, 2006