Free Press launches promising Internet for Everyone initiative
Internet for Everyone? Sounds good to us.
That's the name of a new campaign launched by Free Press that hopes to draw attention to the widening digital divide and support efforts to close it.
As Free Press Executive Director Josh Silver said,
"Internet for Everyone recognizes that it is outrageous that the country that invented the Internet cannot ensure fast affordable internet access to all businesses, all hospitals, all schools, all libraries, all churches, all public safety officials, all community organizations."
As a start, the organization plans to hold four public forums across the country to increase coordination between the main stakeholders in the high speed Internet field, with the ultimate goal of a national high speed Internet policy.
FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, who has previously expressedhissupport for universal high speed Internet access on many occasions, praised the Internet for Everyone effort:
"We need a national broadband policy," he said. "We at the FCC regularly hear from giant telecom and cable companies that we oversee and they're an important part of the picture. [But] we need to engage the public [and] that's what Internet for Everyone is all about."
While we're still a long way off from universal high speed Internet access, it is encouraging to see momentum building for reaching this goal.
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