John B. Horrigan is an independent communications and technology policy consultant. Horrigan’s work focuses on consumers’ adoption and use of information and communications technologies, as well as ICTs’ impacts on states and localities. He is most recently author of a landmark report “The Essentials of Connectivity” that makes recommendations on how to accelerate broadband adoption and usage by examining broadband users enrolled in Comcast’s Internet Essentials program. He also authored, for the Knight Foundation, “Adoption of Information and Communications Technologies in the United States: Narrowing Gaps, New Challenges.”
Horrigan has served in senior positions at the Pew Research Center, the Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies, and TechNet. At the Federal Communications Commission in 2009-10, he led development of the broadband adoption and usage portion of the National Broadband Plan. Horrigan has a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Texas at Austin and his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia.
Horrigan has served in senior positions at the Pew Research Center, the Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies, and TechNet. At the Federal Communications Commission in 2009-10, he led development of the broadband adoption and usage portion of the National Broadband Plan. Horrigan has a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Texas at Austin and his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia.