Day archives: March 12th, 2010

FCC Launches Broadband Consumer Tools

News release: “Today, the Federal Communications Commission launched new digital tools — the Consumer Broadband Test and the Broadband Dead Zone Report — that allow consumers to test their broadband service and report areas where broadband is not available. The Consumer Broadband Test measures broadband quality indicators such as speed and latency, and reports that …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Internet

2010 Rosemary Award for Worst Open Government Performance Goes to Federal Chief Information Officers' Council

News release: “The Rosemary Award for worst open government performance, named after President Nixon’s secretary who erased 18½ minutes of a crucial Watergate tape, this year goes to the Federal Chief Information Officers Council, the senior federal officials (responsible for $71 billion a year of IT purchases) who have never addressed the failure of the …

Subjects: E-Mail, Government Documents, Legal Research