NextGenWeb recently traveled to the National Press Club to attend an event hosted by the Technology Policy Institute and the Center for European Policy Studies titled “Transatlantic Perspectives on Broadband Policy”. During the forum, speakers discussed different approaches to broadband policy along with their successes and failures. Thomas Hazlett, a Professor of Law and Economics at George Mason University, discussed the benefits of deregulation and statistics pointing to rapid growth in the broadband industry as a result. Click below to see highlights from his presentation.

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NextGenWeb recently attended an event hosted by the Alliance for Public Technology titled “Digital Communication in the 21st Century: Ensuring Access by People with Disabilities”. The event was focused on different technologies that are being utilized by the disabled community in order to ensure smoother communication. Many of these technologies rely on broadband to ensure applications such as internet relay, internet captioning and instant messaging perform to their best capability.

Click below to view NextGenWeb’s interview with Lisa Hamlin from the Hearing Loss Association of America as she discusses the benefits of broadband and how it is making every day life better for people with disabilities.

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NextGenWeb recently traveled to Philadelphia, PA for a facility tour at the School of the Future.  The School of the Future is a public school in the Philadelphia School District that utilizes state of the art broadband technology to provide a real 21st century learning experience for its students.

The School of the Future is financed using public funds, and did not cost more to build or to maintain than any other public school. Through innovative thinking and new learning models, the School of the Future is able to apply new technologies to everyday learning while operating on a public school budget.

Throughout the school students and teachers have access to high speed broadband.  This is necessary due to the fact that classes are conducted on what is called the “portal”, an online environment that serves many purposes. The “portal” allows students and teachers to view their classes, assignments, calendar, meal plan, as well as fill out student operated surveys. Broadband also comes in handy as the students use instant messenger services to communicate with other students and teachers.

Click below to view a tour of the School of the Future

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Nextgenweb recently hosted a Capitol Hill briefing on rural health care. Walter B. McCormick, Jr. (President & CEO, USTelecom, The Broadband Association) moderated the panel which discussed how broadband brings more accessible and cost-efficient health care to rural Americans. The panelists included Michael Manley (Outreach Director, UAMS Center for Distance Health) and Nina Marie Antoniotti, Ph.D (Program Director, Marshfield Clinic TeleHealth Network). Both Michael and Nina discussed the benefits broadband provides to rural communities. Michael pointed to the increasing demand for specialized care in rural communities of Arkansas while Nina highlighted how broadband is bringing world class healthcare to rural communities in Wisconsin.

Click below to watch highlights of their presentations.

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Join Walter B. McCormick, Jr., with USTelecom, The Broadband Association, as he addresses The Media Institute’s Communication Forum at 1:00 pm EST, Wednesday, May 14th.

This event is now over. Please click below to watch an archived version

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Center for Connected Health Stories

Connected Cardiac Care

E-Visits Patient

Allowing Patients to Live Their Lives

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Click Below to Watch NextGenWeb’s recent video on Internet Regulation

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I would like to invite you to watch an inspiring video about “Computers 4 Kids,” a program just launched by Connected Tennessee.  You will hear the story of Lotez Holloway, a foster care child who has been in six homes in five years, but retains his enthusiasm and drive for educational excellence. “At school these days, basically you need a computer to get along,” Holloway says. “It’s like your pencil now.”

Through the Computers 4 Kids program, Connected Tennessee and its partners are placing 1,000 computers in the homes of underprivileged children each year for the next three years.  Why are we doing this?  Simple.  Students need a computer at home in order to succeed at school. 

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The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) released a new study today on broadband policy at the National Press Club in Washington. The report, titled “Explaining International Broadband Leadership”, looks at policies in nine nations and finds that, while we shouldn’t look to other nations for silver bullets or assume that practices in one nation will automatically work in another, U.S. policymakers should look to broadband best practices in other nations.  Learning the right lessons and emulating the right policies will enable the United States to improve our broadband performance.

The broadband leadership study, which I co-authored with ITIF’s Daniel K. Correa and Julie A. Hedlund, put forth a number of key lessons for American policymakers:

Click below to read more and view the full presentation along with an interview with Rob Atkinson

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NextGenWeb recently attended Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) annual conference in Washington DC. The Center for Aging Services Technologies is leading the charge to expedite the development, evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies that can improve the aging experience. CAST has become an international coalition of more than 400 technology companies, aging services organizations, research universities, and government representatives. After the event, NextGenWeb caught up with Majd Alwan, Director of CAST, and Larry Minnix, President and CEO of AAHSA, to discuss how they are using broadband technologies to provide first-rate care while reducing health care costs.

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