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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Tracey Sawicki
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In 2009, more than 26 million people used public library computers to get government or legal information or to access government services.
In 2009, more than 26 million people used public library computers to get government or legal information or to access government services.
As the Pew Internet and American Life Project recently found, “some 74% of internet users – representing 55% of the adult population – went online in 2008 to get involved in the political process or to get news and information about the election.
The passive infrastructure represents the highest-cost portion of new network investment (often cited as close to 80% of total cost) and this is an area where governments could easily invest and boost competition with minimal market distortion (29).
More than half of respondents said government should be ‘‘wholly’’ or ‘‘very’’ responsible for protecting an individual’s online privacy, according to the survey of more than 1,000 Americans conducted by TRUSTe.
Integrating the installation of high-capacity dark fiber bundles into all Federal-aid and direct Federal highway projects offers the most cost-effective means to bring high-speed fiber connectivity to nearly every community in the nation and create a nationwide fiber infrastructure of unrivaled capacity.
The telecom sector is investing more in the broadband infrastructure than the Federal government is investing in all forms of transportation.
Nearly four in five internet users (78%) have visited government websites to seek information or assistance.
They most commonly visit a local, state or federal government website: a total of 71% have done this, including 66% in the past year. About two in five (38%) have gone online to research official government documents or statistics, including 35% who have done it in the past year. About one in four (24%) have gone online to get advice or information from a government agency about a health or safety problems and 22% have gone online to get information about, or apply for, government benefits.
Most Americans expect their government to make information and services available online.
Seven in ten (70%) say they expect to be able to get information or services from the government agency website when they need it. Only 23% do not expect that.
Internet users are much more likely to contact the government than non-users, whether or not they actually used the internet to make that contact.
Two-thirds of internet users (65%) say they have contacted the government in the past year, compared with 36% of those who do not use the internet.
The U.S. government administers two funds dedicated specifically to broadband deployment through the USDA.
The USDA estimates it has provided $6 billion since 2001 for telecommunications infrastructure, especially broadband deployment, in rural areas.
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