1. Broadband America • An Unrealized Vision EDUCAUSE Broadband Policy Group October 2004
• Fundamental impact - instrumentalities of learning?
• Ubiquitous = wireline,wireless,satellite,etc
• 1B “appliances” by Grove
• Smart = voice recog., multilingual, agents
• Glut = Web
• Architecturally distributed
• Economically disaggregated
• Socially disintermediated
• Specialization of knowledge & technology forces integation and collaboration

2. 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 Grove
• Smart = voice recog., multilingual, agents
• Glut = Web
• Architecturally distributed
• Economically disaggregated
• Socially disintermediated
• Specialization of knowledge & technology forces integation and collaboration

3. 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 Grove
• Smart = voice recog., multilingual, agents
• Glut = Web
• Architecturally distributed
• Economically disaggregated
• Socially disintermediated
• Specialization of knowledge & technology forces integation and collaboration

4. 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 Grove
• Smart = voice recog., multilingual, agents
• Glut = Web
• Architecturally distributed
• Economically disaggregated
• Socially disintermediated
• Specialization of knowledge & technology forces integation and collaboration