Janna Anderson, associate professor and director of the Imagining the Internet Center, was interviewed by two broadcast news organizations as an expert commentator on the topics of broadband diffusion and the future of the Internet last week.
She discussed the future of the Internet with television host Anand Naidoo of Al Jazeera on March 13. It was the 20th anniversary of the composition of the first note World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee wrote about his ideas for the Web. The program’s focus was on the next 20 years. Naidoo was an anchor for CNN International’s “World News” before joining Al Jazeera English. He is based in Washington, D.C., and began his career as a newspaper journalist for the Johannesberg, South Africa, Rand Daily Mail and is a Peabody Award winner.
The Imagining the Internet project (http://www.imaginingtheinternet.org) is one of the largest compilations of research data and other information about projected futures for networked communications.
She talked with a reporter from WXII-TV, the NBC station in Winston-Salem, N.C., for a March 9 report about the digital divide in North Carolina and the roll-out of broadband Internet to under-served areas that is expected to be a part of the Obama administration’s economic stimulus package.