Broadband America • An Unrealized Vision EDUCAUSE Broadband Policy Group October 2004 • Fundamental impact - instrumentalities of learning? • Ubiquitous = wireline,wireless,satellite,etc • 1B “appliances” by 2000 - Grove • Smart = voice recog., multilingual, agents • Glut = Web • Architecturally distributed • Economically disaggregated • Socially disintermediated • Specialization of knowledge & technology forces integation and collaboration
Broadband Policy Background 1996 Telecom Act did not include Internet Vendors facing backward not forward Internet2 does not deal with public Internet issues FCC/Vendor definition of Broadband is useless Vendors more interested in content than bandwidth Higher Ed hasn’t had a Broadband policy position • Fundamental impact - instrumentalities of learning? • Ubiquitous = wireline,wireless,satellite,etc • 1B “appliances” by 2000 - Grove • Smart = voice recog., multilingual, agents • Glut = Web • Architecturally distributed • Economically disaggregated • Socially disintermediated • Specialization of knowledge & technology forces integation and collaboration
Three Broadband Principles Affordable access to advanced communications services is very high public interest priority Internet-based Broadband services require a new regulatory structure Federal support of network Research and Development continues to be essential • Fundamental impact - instrumentalities of learning? • Ubiquitous = wireline,wireless,satellite,etc • 1B “appliances” by 2000 - Grove • Smart = voice recog., multilingual, agents • Glut = Web • Architecturally distributed • Economically disaggregated • Socially disintermediated • Specialization of knowledge & technology forces integation and collaboration
Five Broadband Action Areas A Revitalized and Well-Articulated Vision A 21st Century Telecommunications Act More Last Mile Competition New Universal Service Design Based on Internet Federal Cyberinfrastructure Funding • Fundamental impact - instrumentalities of learning? • Ubiquitous = wireline,wireless,satellite,etc • 1B “appliances” by 2000 - Grove • Smart = voice recog., multilingual, agents • Glut = Web • Architecturally distributed • Economically disaggregated • Socially disintermediated • Specialization of knowledge & technology forces integation and collaboration