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On Friday February 7 2020 the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information DFSO hosts the 7th Digital Finance Summit at Columbia Business School in NYC. This conference brings together some of the world’s leading experts and regulators to discuss the impact of blockchain technology,crypto-currencies, and fintech on payments, banking, and compliance. Fintech investors and innovators will provide insight into what they see as the trending focus areas. Expert panels will discuss the implications of new cybersecurity threats, the needs for new types of regulations, new identity systems, as well as emerging technologies such as quantum computing and artificial intelligence. The event will be webcast live via a partnership with the Internet Society New York Chapter.
Today Friday November 17th 2017 the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information presents its annual State of Telecom conference. This year’s event, held online, has the theme The Internet’s Next Bottlenecks? Major Platforms, Video Clouds, and the Middle Mile. In the past, improvements in business entry and regulatory policy have lowered a number of market barriers in the telecom and TV industries, enabling competition and access. As this shift has occurred, what bottlenecks are left or have emerged in the new digital environment? This online half day conference will explore the potential or actual disruption by the new content and distribution platforms and their impact on media and technology markets. It will also analyze the various public policy options that have been advocated. The focus will be on real issues that exist and what responses might be. Speakers include representatives of AT&T, Verizon, Facebook, and the FCC. The event will be webcast live via the Internet Society livestream channel.
The Incentive Auction is the most complex spectrum auction ever conducted It successively cleared 84 MHz of TV spectrum and re-allocated 70 MHz for mobile services. However, it also took approximately 4 years to design and bidding last 1 year and 1 day. Repacking of the cleared spectrum will take over 39 months before the spectrum will become fully available for the winning bidders. On the TV side, single entities owned multiple stations in many markets. In addition, the pricing algorithm left many anomalies. On the buy side, only one of the four national mobile operators entered any bids after the first stage, and only of the two smaller operators, with limited low-band holdings ex ante was successful in closing the gap with the stronger rivals.
This conference addresses how well the auction achieved its policy goals. What may be improved? Should the FCC or other countries try to run two sided auctions again to clear spectrum for re-purposing.
Speakers include Eli Noam, Paul Garrett Chair in Public Policy and Business Responsibility, Columbia University; David Salant, Visiting Professor, Toulouse School of Economics; Jon Peha, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University; and Greg Rosston, Director of the Public Policy Program, Stanford University. The event will be webcast live on the Internet Society’s Livestream Channel.
Today Thursday/Friday June 8-9 2017 the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information presents the 6th Annual Fintech, DFS & Payments Summit at Columbia University, NYC. This year’s event – extended to two days- looks at disruptive effects & implementation of emerging & mobile payments, digital financial services, blockchain & cryptocurrencies in developing & developed worlds. A diverse speaker line-up represents the cream of academia, financial institutions, law enforcement, NGDs, government, activists, investors, and innovators. The event will be webcast live via the Internet Society livestream channel.
Great to see this Institute going so well all these years. I will try to join in though I am in the middle of an all-nighter of a 36 hours day. I have known about CITI since shortly after I came to Columbia Business School in January 1989 for my MBA, and founded and launched .PK and Internet email for Pakistan while still a student at Columbia. Regards to the leaders there whom I recall meeting during my time at Uris Hall.
On May 1 2015Â the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information presented Digital Financial Services & Emerging Payments:Â Disruption, Development And Innovation In A Global Context at Columbia University in NYC. The ability to pay efficiently, reliably and securely is one of the hallmarks of the development of modern economies. This was the 4th annual conference that looks at the disruptive effect and real-world implementation of mobile payments, mobile financial services and crypto currencies in the developing and developed world. It brings together a high-level group of international speakers featuring entrepreneurs, US & International regulators, investors, academics, payment aggregators, banks, philanthropists, manufacturers, lenders, law enforcement, payment organizations, and industry analysts. The conference was webcast live via the Internet Society livestream channel. Video is below
April 17th 2015 9:00am-5:30pm the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, in collaboration with the International Telecommunications Society, presents Back From the Ashes? A Next Generation of ICT Regulations and Their Implications at Columbia University NYC. This Event/Workshop will cover the various regulatory aspects of emerging next generation technology in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. With the recent decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules on Open Internet or “Net Neutrality,” the role of regulation in the ICT sector has once again been highlighted. The ICT sector continues to undergo significant changes: OTT services are proliferating; Google is pushing into the wireless sector and deploying fiber in selected communities; the ubiquity of WiFi is encroaching on data services offered by traditional cellular providers and some firms are attempting to displace the voice cellular services with a network of WiFi. A series of panels will examine the ICT policy implications. The event will be webcast live via the Internet Society livestream channel.
Today, Monday April 28 2014 the Columbia Institute of Tele-Information (CITI) will host Mobile Payments & Virtual Currencies – Adoption Cycles Meeting Reality – Global Lessons & Strategies – a full day conference that looks at the disruptive effect and real-world implementation of mobile payments, mobile financial services and crypto currencies in the developing and developed world. It brings together a high-level group of international speakers that includes entrepreneurs, policy makers, mobile operators, investors, academics, regulators, aggregators, banks, philanthropists, FBI, content providers, payment organizations, and industry analysts. The conference will be webcast live via uStream.
On Tuesday November 12 2013 at 12:00pm EST the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) hosted an e-conference on Internet Governance titled: “Is There A Third Way For The Internet: Neither The US Nor The UN But Independence?†The conference asked the question “Are there models of internet governance that establish internet independence from the US without the UN or other governments expanding their influence or control? What are their advantages and disadvantages?†Speakers included:Eli Noam, Director, CITI; John Curran, President and CEO, American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN); Alejandro Pisanty, Director of Computing Academic Services, National Autonomous University of Mexico, ICANN Board Member; Fred Goldstein, Interisle Consulting Group, Senior Member of the IEEE; Milton Mueller, Professor, Syracuse University; Lorenzo Pupillo, Economist, Telecom Italia; Fred Golstein, Interisle Consulting Group, Senior member of the IEEE; and Robert Atkinson of CITI. Moderator was Dave Burstein of ISOC-NY. The conference was relayed via the Internet Society Chapters Webcast Channel and is archived below.
Today, Wednesday October 9 2013, the ISOC-NY TV show will  present an edited version of the webcast of CITI State of Telecom 2013 at Columbia Business School on September 26 2013, which including remarks from Eli Noam, Robert Pepper, and Susan Crawford. The show, which airs from 2-3pm, may be viewed via Manhattan Cable or online via the MNN website.
What: ISOC-NY TV Show – NYC Digital Roadmap listening session in Queens Where: Manhattan Neighborhood Network When: Wednesday October 9 2013 2pm-3pm EDT | 1800-1900 UTC Manhattan Cable: TWC 56 | RCN 83 | FiOS 34 Webcast: http://www.mnn.org/live/2-lifestyle-channel
Today, Thursday September 26 2013, the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) will host State of Telecom 2013 at Columbus Business School NYC. This year this annual conference has the theme is ‘Can Broadband Networks Handle Cloud-Based Video Media? Technology, Business Models, Market Structure, And Policy‘, and launches a multi-year, multi-discipline project on “Cloud TV†which follows CITI’s work on ultrabroadband (UBB), broadband infrastructure deployment and investment, and “over-the-top (OTT) video.
Today Monday February 11 2013 from noon til 2pm the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) will host a webinar What’s Next After The Collapse of the ITU’s WCIT-12 Dubai Talks. Particpation is free but there is 200 person limit.
What: Webinar: What’s Next After The Collapse of the ITU’s WCIT-12 Dubai Talks When: Monday February 11 2013, 12 Noon – 2pm EST | 1700-1900 UTC Register: Email Jason Adam Buckweitz at jab2322@columbia.edu Twitter: #WCIT12 | #WCIT Panel:
Milton Mueller, Professor (Syracuse University School of Information Studies)
Sally Shipman Wentworth, Public Policy (The Internet Society)
Luigi Giambardella, Chairman – Executive Board (ETNO)
Moderator: Raul Katz, Director of Business Strategy Research, CITI Topics:
Is there anything non-controversial in the revised treaty that could be agreed upon by all countries (e.g. universal number for emergency services, greater transparency in mobile roaming prices, improvement in the energy efficiency of ICT networks)
Are we, as The Economist says, at the beginning of a “digital cold war†between signatories and non-signatories? What would the implications of a “cold war†scenario be for the future of the Internet?
Or, alternatively, are we dealing with a “too much about nothing†scenario, where after ratifications and delays, little would have changed?
How has the conference affected the future of the ITU?
Will a split regulatory scenario of the Internet affect its regional implementation?
On Monday September 24 2012 the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) hosted State of Telecom 2012 at Columbus Business School NYC. This year this annual conference was presented jointly with European analyst group IDATE and billed as a ‘transatlantic dialog’. The theme is ‘Over the Top: New Business Models with New International Telecom Rules?‘ The event was webcast live via the Internet Society Chapters Livestream Channel and is archived here or below.
1. Welcome
Speakers:
• Robert C. Atkinson – Director of Policy Research, CITI
• Eli Noam – Director, CITI
• Yves Gassot, CEO, Digiworld byIDATE
2. Business Models for Network Operators in an OTT World
Moderator:
• Raul Katz – Director, Business Strategy Research, CITI
Speakers:
• Vincent Bonneau, Head of the Internet Department, IDATE (France)
• Jacquelynn Ruff, VP International Public Policy,Verizon (USA)
• Stephane Dufour, CSO, Swisscom (Switzerland)
• Paul Budde, Managing Director, BuddeCom (Australia)
• Yu-li Liu, Professor, National Chengchi University (Former NCC Commissioner) (Taiwan)
• Simon Wilkie – Former Chief Economist, FCC
3. Sen. Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and Member of the UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development (Australia)
4. The Impact of OTT on Traditional National Networks and Media
Moderator: Judith D. O’Neill – COO, CMAS Holdings
Speakers
• Gabrielle Gauthey, EVP Alcatel Lucent (France)
• Emmanuel Rochas, SVP & Head of the Strategy, Telecom France Orange (France)
• Henning Schulzrinne, Chief Technologist, FCC (USA)
• Richard S. Whitt, VP, Public Policy & Government Relations, Motorola Mobility (USA)
• Matthias Kurth, former President, Federal Network Agency (Germany)
5. Hon. Lawrence Strickling, Administrator, National Telecommunications & Information Administration (USA)
6. Regulation of Over-the-Top Services: Should National Regulation and the ITRs Be Expanded Beyond Networks to Include Applications?
Moderator: Robert Pepper, Senior Managing Director of Advanced Technology Policy, Cisco
Speakers:
• Roland Doll, VP International Governmental Affairs, Deutsche Telekom (Germany)
• Amb. David Gross, Wiley & Rein (former U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, Department of State) (USA)
• Leonard J. Cali, SVP, Global Public Policy, AT&T (USA)
• Chris Libertelli, Head of Global Public Policy, Netflix (USA)
• Carlos Raul Gutierrez, President of the Council – SUTEL (Costa Rica)
• Mark Cooper, Director of Research, Consumer Federation of America
• Sally Wentworth, Senior Manager of Public Policy, Internet Society
• David J. Farber, Trustee, Internet Society
The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) and Georgetown University’s Communication Culture and Technology Program will present a one day confrence THE NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN: One Year Later at Georgetown University in Washington, DC on Friday, March 18. Details as to the agenda and location will be available soon. Please save the date.
The FCC’s National Broadband Plan was released on March 16, 2010. It laid out a number of ambitious long-term goals, including that 100 million US households would have affordable access to 100mbps broadband service within a decade and that the US should be the world leader on mobile broadband innovation with the fastest and most extensive wireless networks of any nation. After a year, is the Plan “on track� What is the state of broadband in America in 2011? What has been accomplished and what are the major next steps in the implementation of the Plan? Have any of the facts, circumstances and analyses that underlie the NBP changed in such a way that the Plan itself needs to be amended? How will the Plan be administered and updated over the next decade?
The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) “State of Telecom” conference will be held on October 15 at the Columbia Business School, Davis Auditorium in the Shapiro Center (just behind Uris Hall). This year’s focus will be on “Matching Supply and Demand for the Next Generation of Broadband.” The conference will be a “Trans-Atlantic Dialog” co-organized with IDATE of France so the topic will be explored from a global perspective.
Advancing Community Broadband: A Summer Discussion Series
The purpose of the Advancing Community Broadband: A Summer Discussion Series is to generate a conversation now that a number of concerned parties in New York have gone through the experience of developing broadband stimulus proposals in the first round and in the case of DOITT and DOE have been successfully funded. The idea is that once a month, a group of stakeholders will come together to discuss their thinking around the broadband stimulus, the National Broadband Plan and where they think broadband in America is headed. The meetings will be organized as a half-day forum, hosted on the campus of Columbia University.
Each half-day forum will revolve around a core theme with interrelated subthemes. The group will have in attendance speakers who will share their thoughts and ideas on the theme as a way to start a robust conversation under the broad thematic area. The discussion will be captured on video, audio and by digital still photograph as well as in written form by student rapporteurs.
The next meeting will be held on the campus of Columbia University at the Rm 520, Mudd Building, Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. (More …)
* Blair Levin, Executive Director of the National Broadband Plan at the FCC;
* Simon Flannery, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley;
* David Don, Senior Director, Public Policy at Comcast Corp.;
* Dan Margolis, attorney with Garvey Schubert Barer;
* Anna-Maria Kovacs, President of Regulatory Source Associates, LLC;
* Larry Darby of the American Consumer Institute;
* Harold Feld, Legal Director of Public Knowledge;
* James Grimmelmann of the Institute for Information Law and Policy at the New York Law School;
* Raul Katz, Professor at the Columbia Business School; and
* Chris Libertelli, Senior Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs for Skype
[report and more details: here]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
REVIEW AND DISCUSSION OF BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT RESEARCH
Washington, D.C.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
PARTICIPANTS:
Introduction of Workshop:
SCOTT WALLSTEN
OBI
Panel 2 – Citi Report: ‘Broadband in America: Where It Is and Where It is Going (According to Broadband Service Providers)’
ROBERT C. ATKINSON
Director of Policy Research, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI)
IVY SCHULTZ
Research Assistant Supervisor, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI)
Respondent:
LEE RAINIE
Director, Pew Internet & American Life Project (More …)
On Friday February 7 2020 the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information DFSO hosts the 7th Digital Finance Summit at Columbia Business School in NYC. This conference brings together some of the world’s leading experts and regulators to discuss the impact of blockchain technology,crypto-currencies, and fintech on payments, banking, and compliance. Fintech investors and innovators will provide insight into what they see as the trending focus areas. Expert panels will discuss the implications of new cybersecurity threats, the needs for new types of regulations, new identity systems, as well as emerging technologies such as quantum computing and artificial intelligence. The event will be webcast live via a partnership with the Internet Society New York Chapter.
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