Professor Bibi Reisdorf Invited to Contribute to the Michigan Consortium for Advanced Networks

Governor Snyder recently announced the formation of the Michigan Consortium of Advanced Networks. This consortium is designed to ‘identify gaps in broadband service coverage and capacity, current efforts underway to address connectivity issues, and key strategies and recommendations for the State of Michigan and the private sector to pursue to achieve enhanced connectivity’. The Consortium is housed within the Executive Office and serves in an advisory capacity to the Governor. It is charged with providing a roadmap for statewide access and adoption by August 1, 2018.

The Quello Center’s Professor Bibi Reisdorf has been invited to join a subgroup titled Access and Adoption Subgroup which will work to assist the Consortium in determining long term recommendations to address access and adoption issues statewide. This subgroup will complement others in order to assist the Consortium in writing its report.

Bibi recently presented at a forum on broadband divides, organized by MSU’s Institute for Public Policy and Social Research (IPPSR) demonstrating the expertise and research base that will bring added value to this subgroup and the Consortium as a whole.

Professor Bibi Reisdorf