The role of civil society groups in improving access to the DC-CAN

Siddhartha Menon ()

Information Systems Frontiers, 2017, vol. 19, issue 2, No 12, 375 pages

Abstract: Abstract This study addresses the role that civil society groups play in improving access to a high – profile middle mile network infrastructure project in Washington D.C, namely the District of Columbia - Community Access Network (DC-CAN). The District of Columbia (D.C.) received a grant through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program to build and operationalize the DC-CAN. The District was one of the few cities to receive federal funding for broadband infrastructure. This paper utilizes a document/textual analysis technique to study the efforts of the three main civil society groups to empower the city’s citizens to take greater agency over local broadband infrastructure. Moreover the article provides a theoretically grounded narrative that explains the role of these groups on behalf of the DC-CAN using Kingdon’s framework of multiple policy streams as a conceptual foundation.

Keywords: District of Columbia - Community Access Network (DC-CAN); broadband; Internet Service Providers (ISPs); Community Anchor Institutions (CAIs); mesh networks; multiple policy streams theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s10796-015-9602-1

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