[1st-mile-nm] Obama Broadband Executive Order

[Owen Densmore]

We just got back from a week traveling (Disney!) and saw this.

Richard: the big question is how does this effect NM & Santa Fe?  Is it
just an election year stunt?

   -- Owen

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/06/13/we-can-t-wait-president-obama-signs-executive-order-make-broadband-const
>
> We Can’t Wait: President Obama Signs Executive Order to Make Broadband
> Construction Faster and Cheaper
>
> White House Also Announces 100-Partner “US Ignite” Broadband Initiative
>
> Tomorrow, the President will sign an Executive Order to make broadband
> construction along Federal roadways and properties up to 90 percent
> cheaper and more efficient. Currently, the procedures for approving
> broadband infrastructure projects on properties controlled or managed by
> the Federal Government—including large tracts of land, roadways, and
> more than 10,000 buildings across the Nation—vary depending on which
> agency manages the property. The new Executive Order will ensure that
> agencies charged with managing Federal properties and roads take
> specific steps to adopt a uniform approach for allowing broadband
> carriers to build networks on and through those assets and speed the
> delivery of connectivity to communities, businesses, and schools.
>
> "Building a nationwide broadband network will strengthen our economy
> and put more Americans back to work," said President Obama. "By
> connecting every corner of our country to the digital age, we can help
> our businesses become more competitive, our students become more
> informed and our citizens become more engaged."
>
> The White House is also announcing that nearly 100 partners—including
> more than 25 cities as well as corporate and non-profit entities—will
> join with more than 60 national research universities to form a new
> public-private partnership called “US Ignite.” The US Ignite Partnership
> will create a new wave of services that take advantage of
> state-of-the-art, programmable broadband networks running up to 100
> times faster than today’s Internet. By bringing software developers and
> engineers from government and industry together with representatives
> from communities, schools, hospitals, and other institutions that will
> benefit from faster and more agile broadband options, the partnership
> aims to speed up and increase the development of applications for
> advanced manufacturing, medical monitoring, emergency preparedness, and
> a host of other services. These applications will improve services to
> Americans and drive job creation, promote innovation, and create new
> markets for American businesses.
>
> Executive Order
>
> The Executive Order (EO) will require the Departments of Agriculture,
> Commerce, Defense, Interior, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs as
> well as the US Postal Service to offer carriers a single approach to
> leasing Federal assets for broadband deployment. The EO also requires
> that available Federal assets and the requirements for leasing be
> provided on departmental websites, and it will require public tracking
> of regional broadband deployment projects via the Federal Infrastructure
> Projects Dashboard (permits.performance.gov ). In addition, the
> Executive Order will direct departments to help carriers time their
> broadband deployment activities to periods when streets are already
> under construction—an approach that can reduce network deployment costs
> along Federal roadways by up to 90 percent.
>
> US Ignite
>
> Today, more and more of the Nation’s broadband infrastructure is
> capable of moving huge amounts of information quickly and in novel,
> programmable ways, but software developers have been unable to create
> applications that take full advantage of this new capacity—in part
> because potential user communities such as factories and hospitals have
> lacked the means to coordinate their needs with developers capabilities.
> The new US Ignite Partnership (www.us-ignite.org) will create a national
> network of communities and campuses with ultra-fast, programmable
> broadband services, operating at speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second.
> This network will become a test-bed for designing and deploying
> next-generation applications to support national priorities areas such
> as education, healthcare, energy, and advanced manufacturing. US Ignite
> will challenge students, startups, and industry leaders to create a new
> generation of applications and services that meet the needs of local
> communities while creating a broad range of job and investment
> opportunities.  This initiative will open up countless new opportunities
> for households and small businesses, helping them experience the
> economic and community benefits of next-gen applications while
> demonstrating a path for other communities to join.
>
> Among the commitments being announced today by participants in the new
> partnership:
>
> - Industry partners offer support to partnership: Global industry
> leaders including Cisco, Juniper, NEC, and Hewlett-Packard are offering
> programmatic and in-kind support to communities while carriers, like
> Verizon and Comcast, are announcing new pilot cities on their network
> that will participate in US Ignite.
> New tools for communities: Non-profits, like the Mott Foundation, are
> working with the partnership to deliver new community programs, such as
> hack days and startup weekends, to accelerate the transition these
> applications into the marketplace.
>
> - National coalition of universities: The National Science Foundation
> (NSF) is committing $20 million to prototype and deploy new technologies
> to advance the development of ultra-high-speed, programmable broadband
> networks. That is in addition to the ~$40 million that NSF has invested
> over four years in the Global Environment for Networking Innovations
> (GENI) project, which currently connects more than a dozen universities
> with next-generation broadband connections. Built with the technological
> contributions of more than 300 NSF-funded researchers at more than 60
> universities, GENI is already serving as a virtual laboratory and
> testbed for next-generation applications in healthcare, energy
> efficiency, education, and other national priority areas.
>
> - Next-gen apps challenge to spur innovation: NSF and Mozilla
> Foundation, with support from the Department of Energy, are announcing a
> $500,000 design competition to develop applications for high-speed
> communities around the country.
> Building on current broadband investments: Departments of Commerce and
> Agriculture are announcing their support for US Ignite with over six
> carriers that received funding for expanding their broadband networks
> while creating new community-based services.
>
> - Supporting military families and communities with new applications:
> Department of Defense is connecting military families on base with new
> US Ignite services, while creating new research opportunities to
> students at West Point. HHS’s Beacon Community Program, starting with
> the Mayo Clinic, and the Federal Communications Commission’s Rural
> Healthcare Pilot Program are partnering with US Ignite to provide new
> healthcare applications, such as remote surgical theatre and patient
> monitoring.
>
> - Additional details on these public and private commitments, and on
> the participants in today’s activities, are detailed in a Fact Sheet
> HERE:
>
> www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/broadband_fact_sheet_06_13_2012.pdf
>
> Building on Success
>
> These announcements build on past successes and the President’s
> commitment to deploying high-speed broadband networks as a nationwide
> foundation for sustained economic growth and prosperity.  Broadband
> deployment programs already underway include:
>
> - NTIA’s Recovery Act projects are increasing broadband access in
> communities across the country, with more than 56,000 miles of networks
> providing broadband access to more than 8,000 schools, libraries,
> hospitals, and public safety entities.
>
> - USDA’s Rural Utilities Service is currently on target to complete
> over $3 billion in Recovery Act investments ensuring that rural
> communities and anchor institutions are connected to high-speed
> broadband networks.
> By taking full advantage of the latest broadband technologies as they
> evolve, the United States can continue in its role as a global leader
> while strengthening its economy, building new industries and creating
> jobs.
>
>
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> Richard Lowenberg
> 1st-Mile Institute
> Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
> 505-989-9110 / 505-603-5200
> www.1st-mile.com   rl at 1st-mile.com
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