496 Projects
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496 Master Projects List
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IMPORTANT: For broadCAST Madness, we will use this list as the ORDER OF OUR PRESENTATIONS. The title given in bold for each group (or group of groups) will be put on the program so that the audience can follow along. If you want to have a different title in the program, please edit this page before Monday morning, 4/21.
This is the master list of projects and outputs. The name listed after the project output is the group leader, and this person is responsible for presenting for 60 seconds on the project at our "broadCAST Madness" event.
Can You Build an AM Radio Out of Household Objects?
NOTE: This project is not graded.
[1] Round 0: Produce a working AM radio and document its construction. (Jake)
How Can Wireless Broadband Help Remote Indian Reservations?
(a.k.a. Tribal Digital Village) NOTE: This project has outputs that are not public.
Goal: Document and Study the Tribal Digital Village Project as a Case Study
[2] Round 1: Produce a documentary script and Interview questions, (prepare to) work with a professional cinematographer to film 8 hours of interview footage in rural California. (Kristin)
[3] Round 2: One lesson learned among many during filming: Solar powered community wireless. (Matt) (This was formerly: Produce a method for logging footage and identify archival / secondary sources for related footage that can complement the original footage that was shot in round 1.)
[4] Round 3: (still under negotiation) Log the footage. Produce selected highlights for dissemination. (Carlo)
Is SMS an Effective Technology for Emergency Notification?
Goal: Study the campus emergency SMS system in the context of school violence.
[5] Round 1a: How does emergency notification technology work? (Lindsay)
[6] Round 1b: Is cell phone coverage complete enough to make this system effective? (Erinn)
[7] Round 2a: Produce a short video illustrating the findings of Round 2. (Chris B.)
[8] Round 2b: Produce a report comparing alternative technologies. (Brad)
[9] Round 3: (still under negotiation) Produce policy recommendations for universities / government. (Bobby)
Can You Build a Municipal Wireless Broadband System for $10k?
[10] Round 1: Presentation to the Lt. Governor's Broadband Deployment Council and survey of past $10k wireless project grantees. (Frank)
[11] Round 3: (still under negotiation) Sample budgets / educational materials for $10k grantees? (Chris K.)
How Do Technology Standards Really Work?
(a.k.a. The "Dirty Laundry" of Technology Standards)
[12] Round 1: A survey of technology standard-setting insiders. (Max)
The Spectrum Spectator Policy Metablog
[13] Round 1: Is there a way to organize the blogs covering spectrum policy into some useful one-stop aggregator? (Dave)
Does Open Spectrum Speed Technology Adoption?
[14] Round 1: Survey the law and policy regarding unlicensed spectrum in "innovative" tech-adopting countries and in in "stalled" tech-adopting countries. (Amanda ???)
[15] Round 2: Analyze the findings of Round 1 and update the unlicensed spectrum information database at openspectrum.info. (Megean)
Is Unlicensed Spectrum Full?
[16] Round 1: What is the status of congestion in unlicensed bands? Summarize the available findings. (Jake)
WiMax: Vaporware or The Real Deal?
[17] Round 2: Perform a public interest technology assessment of WiMax. (Jameson ???)
Why Does the U.S. Have a Third World Cellular Infrastructure?
(a.k.a. Is there International Evidence for "Wireless Carterfone"?)
[18] Round 2a: Survey of Users in Innovative Countries. (Sam)
[19] Round 2b: Survey of Handset Features. (Mike)
[20] Round 2c: Survey of rates / minutes / plans / etc. (Chris J.)
What is the Government Up To?
[21] Round 2: Create a directory of the major gov't spectrum users in the U.S. (Andrew)
Could We "Build" a Wireless Broadband Network in Sidney, IL Just by Encouraging Cooperation?
[22] Round 2: Use Sidney, IL as a case study to consider the possible efficiency gains from cooperation using existing Wi-Fi APs vs. building a new system on top of the existing individual APs. (Patrick ???)
Whatever Happened to All That Fiber?
[23] Round 3: (output still under negotiation) (Joe)
Can We Help Organize Indigenous / First Nations Wireless Providers in Remote Areas?
[24] Round 3: Identify as many Indigenous / First Nations Rural Wireless Broadband Providers as possible, and invite them to join an ISOC working group and/or mailing list. (still being negotiated) (Jason)
What are the 5 Most Important Wireless Policies For Any Country?
[25] Round 3: Five Principles of "Good Spectrum Policy" and their justification. (output still being negotiated) (Brian)
The Experience of Licensing
[26] Round 3: (output still being negotiated) (Luis)
The Future of Television
[27] Round 3: (output still being negotiated) (Paul)
Project broadCAST: Bringing it All Together
(a.k.a. Dissemination Team)
[28] Round 3: Organize, categorize, and standardize the look of the outputs from the other group. Produce a Web site and possibly print materials. (Shawn)
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