[Net-Gold] Experts Call for Broadband Transparency

[David P. Dillard]

Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 19:04:26 EDT
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Newsletter Issue: October 3, 2008
Experts call for broadband transparency
Submitted by Benton Foundation on October 2, 2008 - 7:39pm
Last updated: October 2, 2008 - 7:40pm

Source: eSchool News
Author: Maya T. Prabhu
EXPERTS CALL FOR BROADBAND TRANSPARENCY

<http://benton.org/node/17537>

Mapping the areas where Americans
have access to various broadband
Internet services and making this
information publicly available are
key steps in closing the digital
divide, said attendees of a
Sept. 26 broadband policy summit --
yet current federal policies
prohibit the release of this
information. Kenneth Flamm, professor
at the University of Texas at Austin,
said people need to recognize that
broadband access is a key piece of
public infrastructure. "Broadband
infrastructure will become an
essential part of the economic
structure," he said, adding that fast
Internet connections are a
"quality-of-life" issue.
Rachelle Chong of the California State
Public Utilities Commission said
California is lucky in that
Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger has agreed
with the need for broadband expansion.
"He understood that if you don't have
broadband, you're not going to have
state-of-the-art economic development,"
she said. The utilities commission, she
explained, had to convince policy makers
that broadband access is a necessary
piece of infrastructure. "If you let it
wane, citizens are disadvantaged when
they get their education," she said,
noting that providers tend to invest in
urban areas but not in disadvantaged
areas of California. "We want to ensure
that no child is left behind because of
the digital divide."

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