Transforming Everything? - Evaluating Broadband's Impacts Across Policy Areas (Hardcover)

Broadband, or high-speed internet, has been called the most important infrastructure challenge of the century. It has the potential to connect remote communities, streamline health care services, and support innovation across education, economics, and numerous other fields. Given the growing and widespread investments in broadband, how can citizens and policymakers determine whether the promise of broadband is being fulfilled? Transforming Everything? offers a comprehensive guide to the complexities and possibilities of broadband as a social technology. It addresses challenges for evaluating broadband initiatives across diverse contexts and proposes guidance and methods for evaluation for policymakers and researchers. Contributors draw on pioneering research in program evaluation and information technology to explore broadband applications in health, education, and civic engagement. They also address key measurement and evaluation challenges in the field today, including issues in privacy and security and inadequate research methods for target populations. Collectively, the chapters in this volume raise important questions for improving research and evaluation in broadband use and producing actionable evidence in a highly dynamic environment. Transforming Everything? prepares readers with a critical understanding of broadband technology and the necessary evidence to assess whether broadband programs and policy are truly empowering the communities they serve.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2022
Editors:	Karen Mossberger (Director of the Center on Technology, Data, and Society) • Eric W. Welch (Director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy Studies) • Yonghong Wu (Professor in the Department of Public Administration)
Dimensions:	242 x 158 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-008287-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Comparative politics
LSN:	0-19-008287-9
Barcode:	9780190082871

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!