<font color="#000000"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">We just got back from a week traveling (Disney!) and saw this.</font></font></font><div><font color="#000000"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Richard: the big question is how does this effect NM & Santa Fe? Is it just an election year stunt?</font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br>
</font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"> -- Owen</font></font></font></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Richard Lowenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rl@1st-mile.com" target="_blank">rl@1st-mile.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/06/13/we-can-t-wait-president-obama-signs-executive-order-make-broadband-const" target="_blank">http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/06/13/we-can-t-wait-president-obama-signs-executive-order-make-broadband-const</a><br>
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We Can’t Wait: President Obama Signs Executive Order to Make Broadband<br>
Construction Faster and Cheaper<br>
<br>
White House Also Announces 100-Partner “US Ignite” Broadband Initiative<br>
<br>
Tomorrow, the President will sign an Executive Order to make broadband<br>
construction along Federal roadways and properties up to 90 percent<br>
cheaper and more efficient. Currently, the procedures for approving<br>
broadband infrastructure projects on properties controlled or managed by<br>
the Federal Government—including large tracts of land, roadways, and<br>
more than 10,000 buildings across the Nation—vary depending on which<br>
agency manages the property. The new Executive Order will ensure that<br>
agencies charged with managing Federal properties and roads take<br>
specific steps to adopt a uniform approach for allowing broadband<br>
carriers to build networks on and through those assets and speed the<br>
delivery of connectivity to communities, businesses, and schools.<br>
<br>
"Building a nationwide broadband network will strengthen our economy<br>
and put more Americans back to work," said President Obama. "By<br>
connecting every corner of our country to the digital age, we can help<br>
our businesses become more competitive, our students become more<br>
informed and our citizens become more engaged."<br>
<br>
The White House is also announcing that nearly 100 partners—including<br>
more than 25 cities as well as corporate and non-profit entities—will<br>
join with more than 60 national research universities to form a new<br>
public-private partnership called “US Ignite.” The US Ignite Partnership<br>
will create a new wave of services that take advantage of<br>
state-of-the-art, programmable broadband networks running up to 100<br>
times faster than today’s Internet. By bringing software developers and<br>
engineers from government and industry together with representatives<br>
from communities, schools, hospitals, and other institutions that will<br>
benefit from faster and more agile broadband options, the partnership<br>
aims to speed up and increase the development of applications for<br>
advanced manufacturing, medical monitoring, emergency preparedness, and<br>
a host of other services. These applications will improve services to<br>
Americans and drive job creation, promote innovation, and create new<br>
markets for American businesses.<br>
<br>
Executive Order<br>
<br>
The Executive Order (EO) will require the Departments of Agriculture,<br>
Commerce, Defense, Interior, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs as<br>
well as the US Postal Service to offer carriers a single approach to<br>
leasing Federal assets for broadband deployment. The EO also requires<br>
that available Federal assets and the requirements for leasing be<br>
provided on departmental websites, and it will require public tracking<br>
of regional broadband deployment projects via the Federal Infrastructure<br>
Projects Dashboard (<a href="http://permits.performance.gov" target="_blank">permits.performance.gov</a> ). In addition, the<br>
Executive Order will direct departments to help carriers time their<br>
broadband deployment activities to periods when streets are already<br>
under construction—an approach that can reduce network deployment costs<br>
along Federal roadways by up to 90 percent.<br>
<br>
US Ignite<br>
<br>
Today, more and more of the Nation’s broadband infrastructure is<br>
capable of moving huge amounts of information quickly and in novel,<br>
programmable ways, but software developers have been unable to create<br>
applications that take full advantage of this new capacity—in part<br>
because potential user communities such as factories and hospitals have<br>
lacked the means to coordinate their needs with developers capabilities.<br>
The new US Ignite Partnership (<a href="http://www.us-ignite.org" target="_blank">www.us-ignite.org</a>) will create a national<br>
network of communities and campuses with ultra-fast, programmable<br>
broadband services, operating at speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second.<br>
This network will become a test-bed for designing and deploying<br>
next-generation applications to support national priorities areas such<br>
as education, healthcare, energy, and advanced manufacturing. US Ignite<br>
will challenge students, startups, and industry leaders to create a new<br>
generation of applications and services that meet the needs of local<br>
communities while creating a broad range of job and investment<br>
opportunities. This initiative will open up countless new opportunities<br>
for households and small businesses, helping them experience the<br>
economic and community benefits of next-gen applications while<br>
demonstrating a path for other communities to join.<br>
<br>
Among the commitments being announced today by participants in the new<br>
partnership:<br>
<br>
- Industry partners offer support to partnership: Global industry<br>
leaders including Cisco, Juniper, NEC, and Hewlett-Packard are offering<br>
programmatic and in-kind support to communities while carriers, like<br>
Verizon and Comcast, are announcing new pilot cities on their network<br>
that will participate in US Ignite.<br>
New tools for communities: Non-profits, like the Mott Foundation, are<br>
working with the partnership to deliver new community programs, such as<br>
hack days and startup weekends, to accelerate the transition these<br>
applications into the marketplace.<br>
<br>
- National coalition of universities: The National Science Foundation<br>
(NSF) is committing $20 million to prototype and deploy new technologies<br>
to advance the development of ultra-high-speed, programmable broadband<br>
networks. That is in addition to the ~$40 million that NSF has invested<br>
over four years in the Global Environment for Networking Innovations<br>
(GENI) project, which currently connects more than a dozen universities<br>
with next-generation broadband connections. Built with the technological<br>
contributions of more than 300 NSF-funded researchers at more than 60<br>
universities, GENI is already serving as a virtual laboratory and<br>
testbed for next-generation applications in healthcare, energy<br>
efficiency, education, and other national priority areas.<br>
<br>
- Next-gen apps challenge to spur innovation: NSF and Mozilla<br>
Foundation, with support from the Department of Energy, are announcing a<br>
$500,000 design competition to develop applications for high-speed<br>
communities around the country.<br>
Building on current broadband investments: Departments of Commerce and<br>
Agriculture are announcing their support for US Ignite with over six<br>
carriers that received funding for expanding their broadband networks<br>
while creating new community-based services.<br>
<br>
- Supporting military families and communities with new applications:<br>
Department of Defense is connecting military families on base with new<br>
US Ignite services, while creating new research opportunities to<br>
students at West Point. HHS’s Beacon Community Program, starting with<br>
the Mayo Clinic, and the Federal Communications Commission’s Rural<br>
Healthcare Pilot Program are partnering with US Ignite to provide new<br>
healthcare applications, such as remote surgical theatre and patient<br>
monitoring.<br>
<br>
- Additional details on these public and private commitments, and on<br>
the participants in today’s activities, are detailed in a Fact Sheet<br>
HERE:<br>
<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/broadband_fact_sheet_06_13_2012.pdf" target="_blank">www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/broadband_fact_sheet_06_13_2012.pdf</a><br>
<br>
Building on Success<br>
<br>
These announcements build on past successes and the President’s<br>
commitment to deploying high-speed broadband networks as a nationwide<br>
foundation for sustained economic growth and prosperity. Broadband<br>
deployment programs already underway include:<br>
<br>
- NTIA’s Recovery Act projects are increasing broadband access in<br>
communities across the country, with more than 56,000 miles of networks<br>
providing broadband access to more than 8,000 schools, libraries,<br>
hospitals, and public safety entities.<br>
<br>
- USDA’s Rural Utilities Service is currently on target to complete<br>
over $3 billion in Recovery Act investments ensuring that rural<br>
communities and anchor institutions are connected to high-speed<br>
broadband networks.<br>
By taking full advantage of the latest broadband technologies as they<br>
evolve, the United States can continue in its role as a global leader<br>
while strengthening its economy, building new industries and creating<br>
jobs.<br>
<br>
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Richard Lowenberg<br>
1st-Mile Institute<br>
Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504<br>
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