BESLA part of inaugural MMTC Broadband and Social Justice Summit         

On January 21-22, BESLA will join a group of invitation-only sponsors at Howard University’s Blackburn Center for the Minority Media and Telecommunication Conference’s (MMTC) first annual Broadband and Social Justice Summit. Providing roundtable discussions from some forty broadband policy, journalism and civil rights experts, the Summit brings together senior public officials, civil rights veterans, corporate leaders, and new generation bloggers-and is destined as one of the nation’s premier forums for the development of social policy in the digital age.

Tyrone Brown, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP, and MMTC Board of Advisors member, will facilitate a focused, insightful conversation on these critical topics:
 
· Broadband Literacy, Education and Civic Engagement
· Broadcasting and Journalism in the Broadband World
· Closing the Digital Divide

 The Summit will also feature a luncheon keynote address by the Hon. Mignon Clyburn, Federal Communications Commission.

The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving equal opportunity and civil rights in the mass media and telecommunications industries.

The Summit, in cooperation with the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, will yield a book of recommendations on MMTC’s core objectives of communications technology, the new global forms of media partnerships, and diversity enhancement in the 21st century.

For more information on the MMTC Broadband Summit, visit www.mmtconline.org.