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Broadband changes lives

The Alliance for Public Technology has just released a new report, Broadband Initiatives: Enhancing Lives and Transforming Communities, which documents examples of how high speed networks have changed the lives, and saved the lives, of individuals and communities in ways that many of us could not have even imagined 5 years ago. In a short video, Dr. Curtis Lowery, of the ANGELS program in Arkansas, explains how rural women who never would have had access to pre-natal care now can access it locally.

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Leaving the middle of the pack

During a recent debate at the Columbia Business School, the United States was described as being in the "middle of the pack" of broadband adoption among developed countries. Despite a pledge by President Bush in 2004 to have universal high speed Internet by the year 2007, we are still without a national high speed Internet policy -- let alone universal access. But if legislation that committees in the House and the Senate have passed becomes law, we will begin to map the future.

Leaving the middle of the pack