After opening remarks, two working groups presented proposals for future telecommunications policies. The first panel focused on public access to telecommunications technology, the transition to digital and broadband devices, and expansion of telecommunications to rural regions and to the economically disadvantaged. The Future of American Communications (FACT) Working Group, composed of sixteen telecommunications scholars from eleven American universities who had spent the past year putting together a communications policy agenda for the next administration, released their report titled ...And Communications for All: A Policy Agenda for a New Administration, edited by Amit Schejter.