Tonight: Technically Philly talks digital access at Penn’s Annenberg

This evening at 5pm, Technically Philly’s Brian James Kirk will discuss digital access and mapping at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communication. The details of this free event are below.

Who’s Online in Philadelphia?
Broadband Mapping, Internet Access, and Emerging Digital Participation Research

This Tuesday the 27th, a group of researchers, thinkers, planners, and policymakers will talk about broadband access for Philadelphia’s communities. The panel discussion will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, 3620 Walnut Street, on Penn’s campus. It is sponsored by the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation and the Annenberg School for Communication.

RSVP for this event here.

The full list of panel participants after the jump.

Panel participants will present emerging and recently released research around current digital participation initiatives:

• Technically Philly (Brian James Kirk)
• Open Technology Initiative/Azavea (Greta Byrum and Tamara Manik-Perlman)
• Temple University (Charles Kaylor)
• The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Philadelphia Research Initiative (Larry Eichel)
• The Investigative Reporting Workshop (Jacob Fenton)

Following brief presentations by these researchers on their methods and primary conclusions, we will hold a discussion of alignments and disagreements among these projects and their outcomes, as well as the growing importance of spatial dynamics, scale, and urbanism in the field of communication. The goal of the evening is to create avenues for collaboration as well as directions for future research, analysis, and policy.

RSVP at: http://newamerica.net/events/2012/whos_online_in_philadelphia/