Joshua Seidemann focuses on federal regulatory issues as well as technology and market trends affecting the rural telecom industry. He develops research initiatives and programming for Smart Rural CommunitySM, an initiative that promotes inter-industry collaboration to deploy broadband-enabled applications to improve agriculture, education, health care and other sectors. Josh is the staff liaison for the NTCA Innovation and Business Opportunity Committee and and serves on industry work groups administered variously by the Federal Communications Commission and National Institute of Standards and Technology.