[1st-mile-nm] Joanne Hovis to testify tomorrow on Capitol Hill about "A Better (Broadband) Game Plan"

[Richard Lowenberg]

I am posting this because Joanne and her company have been working
under contract with the NM DoIT State Broadband Program on some
good study/reports and actions, and because the following list of
six steps forward are clear, intelligent, achievable and economy-
stimulating.  Click on the URL for the web site and links for tomorrow.
RL

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CLIC CEO, Joanne Hovis, will testify tomorrow on Capitol Hill about  "A 
Better Game Plan" on how to utilize broadband infrastructure to reduce 
the digital divide.

https://mailchi.mp/2f4a755016d4/our-way-forward-2661433?e=c51c3e32df

Joanne Hovis, CLIC’s CEO and owner of CTC Technology and Energy, will be 
testifying at the House Energy & Commerce Communications & Technology 
Subcommittee tomorrow during a hearing titled “ Closing the Digital 
Divide: Broadband Infrastructure Solutions.”

During her testimony, Joanne will be offering “a better game plan,” one 
whose strategies “address the core reason the digital divide persists: a 
lack of return on investment in many areas of the country.”  Its six 
components include:

    Support public-private partnerships that ease the economic challenges 
of constructing rural and urban infrastructure;

    Incent local efforts to build infrastructure -- ones that private 
service providers can use -- by making bonding and other financing 
strategies more feasible;

    Target meaningful infrastructure capital support to rural and urban 
broadband deserts, not only to attract private capital but also to 
stimulate private efforts to gain or retain competitive advantage;

    Empower local governments to pursue broadband solutions of all types, 
including use of public assets to attract and shape private investment 
patterns, so as to leverage taxpayer-funded property and create 
competitive dynamics that attract incumbent investment;

    Require all entities that benefit from public subsidy to make 
enforceable commitments to build in areas that are historically unserved 
or underserved; and

    Maximize the benefits of competition by requiring that all federal 
subsidy programs are offered on a competitive and neutral basis for bid 
by any qualified entity.



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Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director
1st-Mile Institute     505-603-5200
Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504,
rl at 1st-mile.org     www.1st-mile.org
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