International Summit for Community Wireless Networks

Dharma Dailey has over a decade of experience as a community media activist and researcher. Her research on the purported risks to public safety of Low Power FM (LPFM) broadcasting, as claimed by large commercial broadcasters, played a timely role in the FCC's decision to begin re-issuing LPFM licenses. Dharma was the principal author of Prometheus Radio Project's official reply comments to the FCC on the 12 Media Ownership Studies that were meant to launch another wave of media ownership consolidation. These comments gave Prometheus the legal standing to become the lead plaintiff in a successful lawsuit against the FCC that stopped further radio consolidation. For the last three years, Dharma's work has focused on the task of taking the issues of Spectrum Reform beyond the beltway. From Hackers on Planet Earth to the Ford Foundation, she provides expert testimony on many topics, including smart radios, FCC licensing regimes, appropriate technology, and community media to audiences across North America. She is regularly sought out for input by a variety of media reform groups and researchers and is a member of the New America Foundation's Wireless Futures Advisory Board.