Lecture: Access to the Internet: Broadband in Massachusetts
Please join us for a lecture by Sharon E. Gillett, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable, on access to the Internet and the status of broadband in Massachusetts.
Commissioner Gillett was appointed by Governor Deval Patrick in the spring of 2007 to head the Department of Telecommunications and Cable. Prior to serving in state government, Commissioner Gillett was a Principal Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where she chaired the Broadband Working Group of MIT's Communications Futures Program and taught courses on telecommunications and Internet policy. She also conducted research on municipal broadband and its economic impact and served on Boston Mayor Thomas Menino's Wireless Broadband Task Force. Commissioner Gillett received her MBA and MS in Technology and Policy from MIT and her AB in Physics from Harvard University.
This lecture is part of the Science, Technology and Society Initiative's Spring 2008 Seminar Series. It is co-sponsored by the National Center for Digital Government.