[governance] Internet for All ... this time from the UK

[Michael Gurstein]

Hi Roland,

"The simple provision of Broadband access" of which I wrote wasn't meant to
refer only to the UK case of which I know very little, but rather to the
overall inclusion of Broadband as an element in the variety of
infrastructure supports which are being included in economic recovery
packages in various jurisdictions such as Canada and the US (among I'm
assuming others such as that of the UK...

Best to all,

MBG

-----Original Message-----
From: Roland Perry [mailto:roland at internetpolicyagency.com] 
Sent: February-01-09 11:21 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: Re: [governance] Internet for All ... this time from the UK


In message <C5C6560F9A524F4B826F15C29FBD7418 at userPC>, at 08:34:35 on 
Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> writes
>What I think needs to be added to Parminder's comments though is that 
>the simple provision of Broadband access is quite insufficient without 
>the parallel and associated investment in socially directed training, 
>enabling of locally accessible technical maintenance and support and 
>community focussed applications development (as for example in the area 
>of health management, support for local education and locally based 
>training, environmental management and so on... In the absence of these 
>investments in Broadband "access" are simply gifts to the telcos or 
>other service providers.

The *universal* access of which I spoke, relates only to the remaining 
10% of the population that telcos find too expensive to service using 
normal commercial rules. Governments mandating that they *do* service 
these customers (at the same price as the easy 90%) doesn't sound much 
like a "gift" to those telcos.
-- 
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