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Digital Divide: Expanding Broadband Access to Small Businesses

Testimony of The Honorable Lawrence E. Strickling Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information National Telecommunications and Information Administration United States Department of Commerce. Before the Committee on Small Business United States House of Representatives.

Innovation and Employment in the Intelligent Community

In 2013, Intelligent Community Forum will examine the relationship between innovation – one of the Intelligent Community Indicators – and employment in communities around the world. A massive body of evidence points to the fact that innovation creates prosperity. The prosperity flows from new demand – who needed an iPod or iPad until one was created? – or from empowering us to do more with the same resources of raw materials, people and money. But prosperity is not always the same as employment. In each recession of the past 50 years, job recovery has been significantly slower than in the previous recession. The recent recession in the industrialized world is only the most dramatic example of a “jobless recovery” – and that is in nations managing to post positive economic numbers at all.

Upgrading America and Achieving a Strategic Bandwidth Advantage

Upgrading America: Achieving a Strategic Bandwidth Advantage And a Psychology of Bandwidth Abundance To Drive High-Performance Knowledge Exchange

Fujitsu Conference on Paving the Road to Unlimited Bandwidth: Technologies and Applications for a Connected Age

San Jose, California June 13, 2012

Blair Levin Speech

Florida Fiber: Martin County Saves Big With Gigabit Network

Martin County, located on Florida’s Atlantic coast, faced a problem shared by local governments across the nation: the rapidly escalating cost of telecommunications access. For ten years, the County had connected schools and other public facilities with leased lines from the local cable company but Comcast was threatening to radically increase its prices after the lease expired in 2010.

Broadband as an Economic Driver

By David Salway

There is little debate that increasing broadband access spurs economic development, but can this be quantified? There have been numerous studies by economic and telecommunications analysts which study the correlation between broadband access and number of jobs created, as well as measuring the economic impact of broadband. There are multiple economic factors that could affect the results, as well many facets of providing broadband Internet access, which have the potential to significantly affect the results.

Strategies for Economic Improvement in Appalachia’s Distressed Rural Counties

This report provides an understanding of the challenges confronting economic and community development efforts in rural Appalachian communities and explains the ways local governments, agencies, and community organizations plan and respond to challenging issues. The authors of this report examined ten representative case study counties, which were selected using a number of criteria, including economic performance, location, infrastructure investment, and demographic factors.

Can’t Afford Broadband for Your Community? Think again.

By Craig Settles

I spent Monday and Tuesday this week at the Freedom to Connect (F2C) conference in DC, which was a great event on many levels. One truly cool aspect was hanging out with a bunch of advocates and doers who believe in the power of communities finding their best broadband solutions (from a myriad of public, private and nonprofit options) to address the dismal state of broadband in the US.

Primer: What Fiber Broadband Can Do For Your Community

From Broadband Communities Magazine

Fiber to the home (FTTH) has become the leading technology for next-generation communications networks worldwide. On every continent, telecom providers are building fiber optic networks. They know that only FTTH can meet the growing demand for broadband services that require delivering video to (and from) multiple tablets, computers and television sets in a home, all at the same time.

 

Promoting Digital Inclusion in the Nation’s Capital

A high-speed Internet connection and digital literacy skills can provide access to up-to-date job listings and new career paths, to specialized online classes and advanced educational content, to valuable healthcare resources and cutting-edge medical expertise. But even in the nation’s capital, there are still too many residents cut off from these opportunities because they are not online.