In Miami this week, helping the Miami-Dade community file an $80 million broadband infrastructure grant with the federal government. As you may know, broadband is an important issue to the Obama administration, and it should be to us as well. A fact you may not know: the United States, the inventors of the Internet, have slipped to #15 on the list of the 30 member countries of the OECD: the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In other words, we’re at the 50th percentile for broadband penetration in the developed world.
Huh! …you may say. Well. Better get busy there.
If you’re scratching your head as to why the Possibility Chick is posting about broadband, then you might want to read this latest report from the OECD regarding the connection between investments in communucation infrastructure and economic recovery: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/4/43/42799709.pdf.
Plus! Imagine what it will be like when $80M appears in Miami-Dade to connect public institutions at very high speeds so that they can do new and amazing things that they haven’t even yet imagined.
I am. I can see the Miami-Dade of the future, and I can’t wait to share this vision of what we can become.
If we can envision it, we can become it. We can turn our possibilities into reality.
First step: submit application tomorrow. Second step: move into the “due diligence” phase. Stay tuned!
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1 Debt Settlement Help // Sep 10, 2009 at 3:43 pm
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