Dr. Paroma Sanyal on the Next Phase of the Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program
Dr. Paroma Sanyal recently joined a Broadband Breakfast panel discussion, “The State of Broadband Deployment: Progress, Gaps, and Early Outcomes,” to discuss the future of the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program.
“One of the things, as an economist, that I always like to stress on is if you cannot measure it, it is very hard to understand the impact,” says Sanyal. “And for the BEAD program, at least currently, there hasn’t been a very comprehensive set of common metrics that people have been developing to understand impact. The reporting requirements are very high for the particular program, but collecting data on economic impacts, I think, is going to be really important to really understand how do you connect the gap between deploying a technology, adopting a technology, and then the actual economic outcomes of that, and whether it’s making people’s lives better.”
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