Updated broadband presentation for July 2010

1. Broadband- Connecting for health, education and civic engagement. July 20,2010 Municipal Clerks Institute Paul Treadwell Cornell Cooperative Extension Distance Learning Consultant

2. What is Broadband? High speed data transmission. Always on connection. Encompassing a variety of technologies.

3. Why Broadband Matters Now, broadband is essential to opportunity and citizenship. Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan http://www.broadband.gov/

4. Why Now? National Broadband Plan released March 2010. Stimulus funding and re-invigoration of Federal Programs supporting broadband. Increased understanding of competitive advantages brought by access.

5. The National Broadband Plan FCC March 2010: Presents an ambitious agenda for expanding access. Emphasis on technology as “enabling”. Robust vision of connectivity.

6. Broadband Adoption Exhibit 3-1 from Connecting America | FCC March 2010

7. The Digital Divide Is the gap between people with effective access to digital and information technology and those with very limited or no access at all. Is a kind of capability deprivation. As the “world” moves online, those who aren’t are excluded.

8. Growing Expectations Citizens are, increasingly, expecting services to become available online: Shopping Paying Bills Interacting with elected officials Organizing

9. The Internet

10. The Civic Net

11. More than Bandwidth or Access The fuss about broadband, then, extends beyond access to information to active participation in the online commons. Broadband: What’s All the Fuss About? Pew Internet and American Life Project

12. Marketplace and/or Commons 2 ways of viewing the internet: Marketplace: Access to goods Buying and selling Commons: Access to ideas Interaction and exchange

13. How do You See Broadband? What role can it play?

14. Broadband Enabled Services E-government Providing access to government information Providing space for engagement E-commerce Access to the global marketplace Technology training / digital literacy/ civic literacy

15. Case study – Ontario county Ontario County e-government http://www.co.ontario.ny.us/ Access to governmental information Online survey for community input

16. Case study – Threadless E-Commerce and the crowd: http://www.threadless.com/

17. Case Study – Engaged Youth Civic learning: Engaged Youth http://www.engagedyouth.org/

18. Case Study – Squeaky Wheel Digital/Media Literacy: Squeaky Wheel http://www.squeaky.org/

19. Barriers to Adoption Availability. Cost. Exclusion. Literacy. Security.

20. Sustainable communities Broadband should be a component of any platform for sustainability. Connecting (rural) communities to the world. Sustaining locality.

21. Civic participation Bringing it back home: Tools for online engagement: National Coalition for Dialog and Deliberation http://www.thataway.org/ my.barackobama.com http://my.barackobama.com/ National project connecting local participants

22. Education Broadband opens up a channel to media rich educational opportunities: MIT OpenCourseware: http://ocw.mit.edu ScienceVideos: http://sciencehack.com/ Youtube: Teachertube: http://www.teachertube.com/

23. Opportunities Resurgence of funding opportunities creates a space for innovative programming. Current Extension programming National e-Commerce Extension Initiative. http://srdc.msstate.edu/ecommerce/ Connecting rural communities. Others?

24. Innovating Digital literacy: For community. For educators. Skills for an online world Community brainstorming: Games to spark planning around technology. Useful Games http://www.usefulgames.co.uk/

25. Appropriate Technology ? Change is coming, continually Understanding the transformative power of connectivity is necessary. Change is not, necessarily, good. Wise decisions will need to be made about when, where and how to use the power of this connectivity.

26. The value of open networks “Strangely enough, digital technologies are forcing us to recognize the power of the collective and social” - David Bollier The Commons as a New Sector of Value-Creation http://www.onthecommons.org/content.php?id=1813 Open standards-Open source-Open networks

27. Resources Documents, sites and case studies referenced in this presentation are available online at: http://ccedigitaldivide.pbworks.com/Clerks2010

28. Contact Paul Treadwell Distance Learning Consultant Cornell Cooperative Extension 356 Roberts Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 pt36@cornell.edu http://www.paultreadwell.com @ptreadwell