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The Internet Innovation Alliance is a broad-based coalition of business and non-profit organizations that aim to ensure every American, regardless of race, income or geography, has access to the critical tool that is broadband Internet. The IIA seeks to promote public policies that support equal opportunity for universal broadband availability and adoption so that everyone, everywhere can seize the benefits of the Internet - from education to health care, employment to community building, civic engagement and beyond.
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80% of parents say the Internet helps children with their schoolwork.
41% of students use email and messaging to contact teachers or classmates about schoolwork.
Students without broadband connections lack access to the same level of information as their connected peers.
65% of teens go online at home to complete Internet-related homework.
71% of teens say Internet has been primary source for recent school project.
About 5,400 public libraries now offer e-books, as well as digitally downloadable audio books, but the collections are still tiny compared with print troves.
The New York Public Library has about 18,300 e-book titles, compared with 860,500 in circulating print titles, and purchases of digital books represent less than 1 percent of the library’s overall acquisition budget.
A 2007 American Library Association report noting that nearly three-quarters of the nation’s public libraries were the only source of free public access to the Web.
Nearly four million college students took at least one online course in 2007.
65% of public libraries have benefitted from the E-Rate program.