Julius Genachowski was born on August 19,1962 and is an American lawyer and businessman.
34 Facts About Julius Genachowski
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Julius Genachowski became the Federal Communications Commission Chairman on June 29,2009.
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On January 6,2014, it was announced that Genachowski had joined The Carlyle Group.
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Julius Genachowski was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, and grew up in Great Neck, New York, the son of Adele and Azriel Julius Genachowski.
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Julius Genachowski was an Editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator.
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Julius Genachowski was a Notes Editor at the Harvard Law Review when his classmate Barack Obama was its president.
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Julius Genachowski had previously served on the Boards of Directors of Expedia, Hotels.
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Julius Genachowski was a co-founder of LaunchBox Digital and Rock Creek Ventures; a Special Advisor at General Atlantic; and a member of the Boards of Directors at The Motley Fool, Web.
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Julius Genachowski served on the board of Common Sense Media, a leading organization seeking to improve the media lives of children and families and the Advisory Board of Environmental Entrepreneurs.
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Julius Genachowski helped found the New Resource Bank, the country's first commercial green bank.
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On January 6,2014, it was announced that Julius Genachowski returned to the corporate world to take a post at The Carlyle Group.
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For Senator Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign, Julius Genachowski was Chairperson of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Policy Working Group, which created the Obama Technology and Innovation Plan.
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Julius Genachowski advised and guided the Campaign's innovative use of technology and the Internet for grassroots engagement and participation.
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On January 12,2009, several news outlets reported that Julius Genachowski would be President-Elect Obama's choice to head the FCC.
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Businessweek called the US a "wireless backwater" prior to 2008, while Julius Genachowski praised the mobile industry for "America's leadership in mobile" in 2009.
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Julius Genachowski will join the Aspen Institute as a senior fellow.
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On March 16,2010, Julius Genachowski released a National Broadband Plan, titled "Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan".
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Julius Genachowski has warned of a "spectrum crunch" of public airwaves, in which demand for mobile broadband service outstrips the availability of spectrum.
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Julius Genachowski announced the process would be advised by a team of auction economics experts, led by economist Paul Milgrom.
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Julius Genachowski has pushed for spectrum sharing between current government and commercial wireless users in order to improve network capacity.
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Julius Genachowski announced the launch of Connect2Compete in 2011, an initiative to help close the digital divide by expanding broadband and computer access to low-income households.
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In January 2013, Julius Genachowski launched a "Gigabit City Challenge" to engage with broadband providers and state and local leaders to ensure ultrafast gigabit Internet is available in at least one community in all fifty states by 2015.
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Julius Genachowski launched an effort with US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to encourage the spread of digital textbooks and create a blueprint on how to harness technology for education reform.
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Julius Genachowski led a successful effort to pass data roaming rules so consumers have access to wireless Internet even in areas their provider does not cover.
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Julius Genachowski launched a Healthcare Connect Fund in 2012 to expand access to broadband for health care.
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The rule was proposed in an FCC report "The Information Needs of Communities", commissioned by Julius Genachowski and authored by Steve Waldman in 2011.
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In 2012, Julius Genachowski appointed Harvard law professor Jonathan Zittrain to chair an FCC Open Internet Advisory Committee created to evaluate the effectiveness of the neutrality rules.
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Julius Genachowski has promoted an international Multistakeholder Model of Internet governance to protect Internet freedom and warned against proposed new regulations by the International Telecommunication Union, an arm of the UN, that could result in a more government-oriented, top-down model of internet governance.
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Julius Genachowski has announced a plan to create a "Next Generation 911" emergency response system that will enable text, video, and photo messages and automatic location information to be sent to 911.
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Julius Genachowski has campaigned against "distracted driving", or the use of mobile devices or texting applications while driving.
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Julius Genachowski's parents are Eastern European Jews who survived the Holocaust.
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Julius Genachowski's cousin, Menachem Genack, is an Orthodox rabbi and the CEO of the Orthodox Union Kosher Division.
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Julius Genachowski was previously married to Rachel Goslins and to journalist Martha Raddatz.
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Julius Genachowski was named by President Barack Obama to lead the United States delegation for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.