Coalition to support broadband for schools, libraries, and healthcare is formed
Leaders in the education and healthcare industries have come together to form a coalition to promote broadband access in schools, libraries, and healthcare facilities. The formation of the public-private partnership Schools, Health, and Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition was announced Thursday, June 11 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, in Washington, D.C.
Representatives from the New America Foundation, the American Library Foundation, and Microsoft spoke at the event.
"High-speed broadband is the key infrastructure that K-12 schools, universities, libraries, hospitals, clinics and other health-care providers need to provide 21st-century education, information and health services," said John Windhausen, coordinator of the coalition. "These institutions serve the most vulnerable segments of our population: rural, low-income, disabled, elderly consumers, students and many others."
As the Obama administration continues to order the apportionment of the $7 billion allocated to broadband expansion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), this coalition will work to promote the importance of high-speed broadband access in the centers of our communities: schools, healthcare facilities, and libraries.
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