FCC: Close the Digital Divide with Open Innovation

The Tech Policy Daily website reported that in a break from central planning of the broadband economy, the Federal Communications Commission launched the Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC), a diverse group of experts tasked with making recommendations on how to accelerate the deployment of high-speed internet access. The BDAC demonstrates the open innovation model to broadband deployment policy, recognizing that the solutions to closing the digital divide reside not necessarily in the FCC, but in the knowledge of a multitude of actors on the ground. The BDAC employs the open innovation model by looking for the answers outside of its regulatory silos.

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