In this interview, Joy Howell, the Director of the “How Broadband Changed My Life Campaign” at the Alliance for Public Technology, discusses how broadband is leveling the playing field for the elderly. Joy highlights how broadband is enabling seniors to live independently and keeping them better connected to their families and communities. Joy also emphasizes how the use of broadband technologies provides seniors with vital health care information and increases access to specialists who may be thousands of miles away. Joy concludes, “Broadband is changing people’s lives in every possible way”.

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NextGenWeb recently hosted a briefing on Capital Hill titled “The Potential and Promises of Broadband”. Featured speakers included Congressman Zack Space representing Ohio’s 18th Congressional District, Michael Manley, Outreach Director at the UAMS Center for Distance Health, Ronald Blackburn-Moreno, President of ASPIRA Association, and Tom McDonald, CEO of BeSafe. The purpose of the event was to provide the speakers a platform to share how broadband has positively impacted their respective fields, including healthcare, education, and public safety. Michael Manley of the UAMS Center for Distance Health discussed how the ANGELS program in Arkansas is bringing high quality health care to residents that have historically been underserved.

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NextGenWeb recently hosted a Stakeholder Briefing on Capital Hill titled “The Potential and Promises of Broadband”. Featured speakers at the event included Congressman Zack Space (Ohio’s 18th Congressional District), Michael Manley (Outreach Director, UAMS Center for Distance Health), Ronald Blackburn-Moreno (President, ASPIRA Association Inc.), and Tom McDonald (CEO, BeSafe). The purpose of the event was to provide the speakers a platform where they shared how broadband has positively impacted their respective fields, including the economy, healthcare, education, and public safety. Congressman Space discussed specific instances in which broadband has led to more job growth and greater opportunity for people in his district.

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NextGenWeb recently spoke with Geraldine Tibbs, Director of Communications and Public Relations for the Madison County School District located in northern Alabama.

The Madison County School District participates in the ACCESS Distance Learning Program. The acronym stands for Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators and Students Statewide, a state-funded initiative that uses broadband to connect students to classes in other schools. The program is available to 23,000 students in 170 high schools across the state. As a result, young people in rural and underserved areas are able to access advanced courses not available at their own schools. Larger schools are also able to use the program to enhance their own course offerings.

The ACCESS program is producing good results. School districts are sharing resources, expanding educational opportunities and creating a more dynamic learning environment; all of this is possible through the power of broadband.

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NextGenWeb recently attended the Alliance for Public Technology luncheon “bringing educational opportunities to rural and urban America”. The event included a live demonstration of PEBBLES. PEBBLES is an innovative system that combines video conferencing technologies with simple robotics technology to allow medically fragile students confined in the hospital or at home to attend his/her school. Stephen Wooten, the second place winner of APT’s “how broadband changed my life contest” spoke about the educational opportunities that were opened to him through broadband technology. The event also featured findings from a forthcoming report examining the impacts of IT on education. Robert Atkinson president of the information technology and innovation foundation discussed how IT and broadband can improve education.

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NGW recently spoke with Fritz Nordengren, Education Technology Strategist for the College of Health Sciences at Des Moines University. Our podcast explores how broadband technology has enhanced the educational experience for students and professors at the College of Health Sciences and how new media has revolutionized the classroom environment.

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When Ft. Wayne, Indiana Mayor Graham Richard took office in 2000, he formed a team dedicated to incorporating technology into the community’s public safety programs.  In a few short years, this task force has created a highly mobile and efficient first responder community. 

Broadband access in Ft. Wayne has led to the establishment of the following public safety initiatives:

• Firehouse College: Firefighters connect with online educational resources while they are in-between response calls.   By educating the firefighters and leveraging their time with training, the community is creating a better prepared and efficient group of first responders.
• Training: A brand new, $27 million high-tech facility was built in Ft. Wayne to coordinate collaborative communication efforts between the 5,000 public safety volunteers in the local five county region.  This coordination center has partnered with similar organizations in the country to create a national public safety community for information and best practice sharing. 
• More secure and efficient ways to store and transmit data: Using remote broadband connections, public safety officials are able to send and receive data in real-time from the scene of the crime.

These initiatives created through the use of broadband technology have lowered crime in the Ft. Wayne area to the lowest level in 27 years.

Since 2001, the community has had a steady decrease in the crime rate.  For 2007, as of the end of October, Ft. Wayne experienced a 5.5% decline.

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Rich Wonders, Vice President–Marketing and Business Strategy for Alcatel-Lucent recently spent some time with NextGenWeb to talk about what his company is doing to get broadband to underserved areas. He also touches on some of the life-improving applications like e-Health and e-Learning that are associated with access to high-speed Internet.

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NextGenWeb recently spoke with Maria Pallavicini, Dean of Natural Sciences at the University of California Merced, who is spearheading efforts to establish a San Joaquin Valley eHealth Network. The project is made possible due to three grants totaling nearly $1million from the ATT Foundation, the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley , and the California Emerging Technology Fund. The program will improve access to health care and connect underserved communities with advanced communications services. In this interview, Maria highlights the vital role broadband deployment plays in creating the eHealth network, and how the telehealth network will help bridge the digital divide in San Joaquin.

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While attending USTelecom’s Executive Business Forum in San Jose, NextGenWeb had the opportunity to chat with Walter Delph, Director of Content and Programming at Verizon about the relationship between broadband deployment and FIOS. Walter shared his version of “FIOS 101” and touched on the importance of continued broadband deployment for services like FIOS to be delivered to consumers.

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