Reforming the FCC

The new leadership of the FCC will face a challenge in evaluating how to reform how the agency operates and addresses a series of policy challenges. In the wake of the recent conclusions issued by the House Energy & Commerce Committee, it is both timely and important to examine how the FCC has done its job — and to consider how the FCC can do better job in the future on issues such as managing spectrum, Net Neutrality and media ownership.

Public Knowledge and the Silicon Flatirons Center at the University of Colorado sponsored a conference on January 5, 2009 to look at the future of the FCC. Speakers included former FCC Chairmen Reed Hundt and William Kennard. Former Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, who wrote the classic book, “How to Talk Back to Your Television Set,” and former Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy will also take part.