“Stim-Novation”: Investing in Research to Spur Innovation and Boost Jobs
The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
By Daniel Castro and Rob Atkinson
January 27, 2009

• Spurring additional investment in research will modernize our nation’s research laboratories and facilities, spur additional research, and provide an immediate boost in employment for our economy. Federal support for R&D is critical to innovation.

• 20 billion investment in our national research infrastructure will create or retain approximately 402,000 American jobs for one year.

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Economic Effects Of Tax Incentives For Broadband Infrastructure Deployment
Jeffrey A. Eisenach
Hal J. Singer
Jeffrey D.West
Fiber-To-The-Home Council

• Investments in next generation broadband infrastructure, generate both immediate and long-term benefits for the U.S. economy.
• In the short run, increased capital investment leads directly to increased employment and output.
• In the long run, the rapid deployment of affordable broadband services transmitted over next generation infrastructure is essential to U.S. competitiveness.
• Tax incentives to encourage deployment of these high-speed broadband services therefore represent an efficient mechanism for increasing both short-term economic growth and long-run economic competitiveness.

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The Digital Road to Recovery: A Stimulus Plan to Create Jobs, Boost Productivity and Revitalize America
The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
January 2009
By Robert D. Atkinson, Daniel Castro and Stephen J. Ezell

• ITIF estimates that spurring an additional investment of $30 billion in America’s IT network infrastructure in 2009 will create approximately 949,000 U.S. jobs
• Investments in America’s digital infrastructure will lead to higher productivity, increased competitiveness, and improved quality of life in the moderate to long term.

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Enabling Healthcare Reform Using Information Technology
Recommendations for the Obama Administration and the 111th
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
December 17, 2008

• 2009 is the year for healthcare reform in the United States. The federal government must take action.

• It is essential that health IT be harnessed as a tool to transform healthcare, improve quality by delivering information where and when it is most needed, reduce costs, empower consumers in their healthcare decisions, and provide for the privacy and security of personal health information.

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Accelerating Progress: Using Health Information Technology and Electronic Health Information Exchange to Improve Care
State Alliance For E-Health

• Health information technology (HIT) and electronic health information exchange (HIE) are critical tools in states’ efforts to transform health care in this country.
• HIT has strong potential to drive health system improvements, and states have taken steps in recent years to promote widespread use of HIT and enable access to information through electronic exchange.

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Harnessing the Mobile Revolution
New Policy Institute
October 8, 2008

• In developing countries, mobile devices will be the gateway to a global information network.
• In low-income communities, mobile devices might be used to arrange for life-saving medical care, obtain a loan for a small business, or allow a farmer to get a better price for his crops.
• Working with the private sector, non-profit organizations, and developing country governments, the next Administration can help people around the world make the most of these new opportunities.

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Broadband Policy: Does The US Have It Right After All?
Jeffrey Eisenach
Progress & Freedom Foundation
September 2008

• The deregulatory American approach to broadband policy produces positive results, including high levels of investment and innovation, broadband availability, high and increasing levels of penetration, falling price, and high levels of consumer satisfaction.
• The American model for broadband has been widely criticized.   The criticisms do not hold up.  

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Home Broadband Adoption 2008
Pew Internet & American Life Project
July 2008

• Home broadband adoption increased from 47% from March 2007 to 55% in April 2008.
• Respondents age 50 and over reported a 26% growth in broadband adoption from 2007 to 2008.
• Monthly broadband bills are 4% lower in May 2008 than at the end of 2005, but monthly dial-up bills have risen.

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Critical Mass: The Worldwide State of the Mobile Web
Nielsen
July 2008

• There were 40 million active users of the mobile Internet in the US, with individual sites that attract millions of unique users.
• The number of US subscribers who paid for mobile Internet increased 28 percent between the first quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of 2008 (from 74 million to 95 million).
• Mobile internet use will continue to grow rapidly.

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The Increasingly Important Impact of Wireless Broadband Technology and Services on the U.S. Economy
Ovum
July 2008

• By 2016 the value of the combined mobile wireless voice and broadband productivity gains will reach $427 billion per year.
• Between 2004 and 2005, the productivity enhancements generated by the use of mobile wireless broadband tripled in value.
• In 2005, productivity improvements due to use of mobile broadband solutions across the U.S. health care industry were worth almost $6.9 billion. By 2016, that number will triple to $27.2 billion.

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