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Note: Towards Community-Empowered Network Data Action

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Beatriz Palacios Abad,

Elizabeth Belding,

Morgan Vigil-Hayes,

Ellen ZeguraAuthors Info & Claims

COMPASS '22: Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies

Pages 585 - 588

https://doi.org/10.1145/3530190.3534836

Published: 29 June 2022 Publication History

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has recently released official technical requirements for its Broadband Data Collection (BDC) processes, with the purpose of improving the accuracy of broadband coverage data in the United States. A key process in the BDC establishes the opportunity for communities to crowdsource Internet measurements that may dispute coverage data maintained by Internet service providers. This process outlines complex requirements that may provide a substantial barrier to community participation. In this poster we share the design of a network measurement tool suite and the requirements for a community coordination tool to support community-led efforts to challenge official reports. Our design is based on “counter-data action” principles, which call unethical and authoritative uses of data into question.

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COMPASS '22: Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies

June 2022

710 pages

ISBN:9781450393478

DOI:10.1145/3530190

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Engineer Bainomugisha
Makerere University
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University of Washington
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Nicola Dell
Cornell Tech
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Amit Sharma
Microsoft Research

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