| TISP FORUM PROFILE
The idea behind the Forum
is simple and essential: purposeful exchange on key issues with
engaged stakeholders to create a better information future.
The TISP forum continues to evolve in response to the changing
landscape of telecommunications and information issues. The forum
programs intend to accomplish a number of things.
- Foster idea exchange on key issues
- Provide a discussion arena for industry, public, and user leaders
- Foster innovative stakeholder ideas
- Support innovative solutions in the telecommunications arena
- Create statewide discussion among key stakeholders
- Engage in assessment of policy effects
- Support greater understanding of new public policy proposals
- Cooperate with related stakeholder organizations
- Provide information on technology trends in the industry
- Create linkages to foster innovative partnerships among stakeholders
The forum partners with a wide range of businesses, organizations,
and individuals to bring a regular series of monthly programs into
the public arena. From time to time the forum holds longer conferences
and cooperates with others to provide programs around the state.
The monthly programs draw a wide-ranging audience including those
who represent varied institutional public sectors at the local,
country, and state level, the full range of telecommunications service
providers and related businesses, the legal and professional community,
the nonprofit sector, and a growing number of independent small
business stakeholders, among others. The forum is unique in reaching
so many different kinds of stakeholders with an interest in the
critical issues of telecommunications and information change.
Topics cover a wide range of issues. Key leaders and speakers ensure
that the discussions are timely and provocative, and the open, neutral
atmosphere of the forum encourages highly useful exchange on important
and controversial issues. The forum provides the record showing
the over-time development of Minnesota public policy in telecommunications
and information issues and its intersection with the play of private
sector interests. |
