This “Secret Startup Guy” talks about the intersection of technology, broadband access and job growth. His simple message resonates loud and clear: tech leads the way for job creation in California while other sectors lag far behind.
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The Amazing, Spectrum-Crunching Mobile-Palooza!
A demo and discussion presented by SFNewTech and CalInnovates
Desperately Seeking Spectrum
Consumer and Business members of CALinnovates were treated to a panel discussion featuring Chairman Julius Genachowski, CALinnovates Board Member Ron Conway, Andreessen-Horowitz VC Jeff Jordan, Twilio’s Jeff Lawson, Lookout’s John Hering and foursquare’s Holger Luedorf in San Francisco at the Founders Den. The panel, moderated by CALinnovates Executive Director Mike Montgomery, addressed the need to unleash spectrum in order to stimulate the economy, create jobs, speed up our networks, and support innovation at every level.
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Increase Broadband and Unleash Spectrum for Economic Benefit
As a Managing Partner of Compass Lexecon and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, Jon Orszag is an expert on the economic and inherent benefits of increased access to broadband and spectrum for consumers and economic growth.
Spectrum Crunch
The FCC created an infographic that details the challenges and the opportunities facing the mobile and wireless industry.
Interested in what this means for consumers, job creation and data usage? Click HERE.
Mobile Broadband Expansion Means Jobs Growth, Experts Say
By Matt Hamblen | Computerworld
Expanding mobile broadband services in the U.S. in the coming years would produce thousands of new jobs and help reverse today’s downward employment trend, a group of economic development and business officials said Wednesday.
“As mobile broadband is built out, you are likely to see jobs created,” said Michael Mandel, chief economic strategist for the Progressive Policy Institute during a conference call sponsored by the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA).
Connect people to health by increasing access to technology
By Kweisi Mfume
5:32 p.m. EDT, August 15, 2011
When we think of the technological advances of the past 20 years, one in particular will probably come to mind for most Americans: wireless technology, which now enables us to access the Internet from anywhere. But when most Americans think of the top uses for the wireless Internet, health care is probably not the first thing on that list. Perhaps, in the near future, it will be.
Access to Technology & Broadband
“105 families in California add a broadband connection every hour”
The term “broadband” refers to the high-speed internet service which allows users to access a large volume of data very quickly. Think of it like a highway: the more lanes there are, the more traffic that can pass through efficiently. For instance, a very narrow road (or single-band signal) only has the capacity for light traffic, or Morse Code, for instance. Larger bandwidth can handle more types of data – such as telephone communication or music on the radio. A broadband “highway” has the capacity to move more complex and larger data vehicles very rapidly.
Towards Universal Broadband: Flexible Broadband Pricing and the Digital Divide
Reaching Universal Access through Affordability at All Income Levels1
Driven by the conviction that the widespread use of broadband can support economic recovery and help the United States achieve other important national goals, President Obama has proposed that every American should have the opportunity to connect to broadband service. On his campaign web site, the President declared: “America should lead the world in broadband penetration and Internet access” and he promised to bring “true broadband to every community in America.”2 In enacting the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the Congress signaled its agreement by providing $7.2 billion in dedicated funding to advance broadband’s spread and by directing the Federal Communications Commission to develop a national strategy to achieve universal broadband.
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Hospitals, doctors jumping into the digital age
By Andrea Suozzo | Addison County Independent
While iPad-carrying doctors might seem futuristic, that image is not too far off for Porter Medical Center’s staff.
On Aug. 1, Porter flipped the switch on the first part of an information system that will digitize most functions at the hospital and its 11 satellite practices.