[Advisors] Comment to CRTC Basic service review

[David Murdoch]

Thanks for your efforts on this submission Marita.

A couple of questions for us to ponder:

How large a constituency, when including like-minded groups, do you think
are represented by this, and future opportunities for TC to submit?

What opportunities are there to increase the quantity of data related to
our arena of interest? More Open Data could possibly more accurately
support our positions in future but only if the data exists. Canadians
often look south (ie Pew) to find supporting references.

BTW this just came into my mailbox:

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 3:56 PM, James McKinney <jamespetermckinney at gmail.com
> wrote in [civicaccess-discuss]:

As part of the Open Government Partnership, the Independent Reporting
Mechanism researcher, Mary Francoli, has published her evaluation of the
government’s progress on its commitments. The report is now open for
comment:

http://www.opengovpartnership.org/node/8597

See also her piece in the Hill Times:
http://www.hilltimes.com/opinion/2016/02/08/open-government-at-a-crossroad-canada-needs-better-funding-and-access-to-information/45138

For example, page 7 (English version) of the report relates to digital
literacy.

David Murdoch

On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Marita Moll <mmoll at ca.inter.net> wrote:

> Since I have commitment tomorrow, and since things always go wrong when
> you leave them to the last minute, I have just submitted our comment letter
> to the CRTC.
>
> In a nutshell -- yes, we think broadband belongs in the basic service
> basket, the minimum speeds for uploading and downloading need to be
> revised, we ask that the CRTC support community-based broadband initiatives
> and find new ways of funding broadband as public infrastructure.
>
> Thanks to those of you (you know who you are) who helped put this
> together.  I attach a pdf of the document.  I will ask Ian to post it on
> our website.
>
> Marita
>
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David Murdoch
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