May 11, 2009

Familiar faces gathered and familiar arguments rang out Monday at the San Mateo Marriott as the 2009 Tech Policy Summit kicked off with a Broadband Innovation mini-conference, with an opening “town hall” on the “state of the stimulus,” with various attendees exchanging ideas on the best way to spend $7.2 billion.

Moderator Geoff Daily, editor of App-Rising.com, called broadband stimulus “one of the hottest areas of tech policy today.” And there was no shortage of agreement from the heavily west-coast crowd. The stimulus is opportunity for “an amazing attempt to reboot America’s broadband policy,” Daily said...