Complete List of Recommendations

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THE COMMISSION RECOMMENDS:

 
Recommendation 1: Direct media policy toward innovation, competition, and support for business models that provide marketplace incentives for quality journalism.  Read more ...
 
 
Recommendation 2: Increase support for public service media aimed at meeting community information needs.  Read more ...

 
Recommendation 3: Increase the role of higher education, community and nonprofit institutions as hubs of journalistic activity and other information sharing for local communities.  Read more ...

 
Recommendation 4: Require government at all levels to operate transparently, facilitate easy and low-cost access to public records, and make civic and social data available in standardized formats that support the productive public use of such data.  Read more ...

 
Recommendation 5: Develop systematic quality measures of community information ecologies, and study how they affect social outcomes.  Read more ...

 
Recommendation 6: Integrate digital and media literacy as critical elements of education at all levels through collaboration among federal, state, and local education officials.  Read more ...

 
Recommendation 7: Fund and support public libraries
and other community institutions as centers of digital
and media training, especially for adults.  Read more ...

 
Recommendation 8: Set ambitious standards for nationwide broadband availability and adopt public policies encouraging consumer demand for broadband services.  Read more ...

 
Recommendation 9: Maintain the national commitment
to open networks as a core objective of Internet policy.  Read more ...

 
Recommendation 10: Support the activities of information providersto reach local audiences with quality content through all appropriate media, such as mobile phones, radio, and public-access cable.  Read more ...

 
Recommendation 11: Expand local media initiatives to reflect the entire reality of the communities they represent..  Read more ...

 
Recommendation 12: Engage young people in developing the digital information and communication capacities of local communities.  Read more ...

 
Recommendation 13: Empower all citizens to participate actively in community self-governance, including local “community summits” to address community affairs and pursue common goals.  Read more ...

 
Recommendation 14: Emphasize community information flow in the design and enhancement of a local community’s public spaces..  Read more ...

 
Recommendation 15: Ensure that every local community has at least one high-quality online hub.  Read more ...