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		<title>Internet &amp; Education: States Turning To Online Programs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When thinking of a high school classroom, one would expect to see rows of desks filled with students listening to a lecture from their teacher. Now, some states are changing that image and the environment in which kids learn. For students in Florida, a typical classroom might be at their kitchen table listening to that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The “Value” of Telework</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As access to broadband Internet grows, teleworking has become more widely accepted by businesses and individuals alike. Psychologically, telework can improve the productivity and morale of workers as they are able to do their job from an ideal environment. Can a monetary value be placed on telework? Many surveys on telework have produced similar conclusions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FCC Focuses on Next Generation 9-1-1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The FCC is encouraging the adoption of a next generation 9-1-1 system that would allow individuals to send text messages, voice calls, videos and photos to emergency responders, simultaneously providing automatic location information to decrease response time. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced a five-step plan to deploy the next generation services at a meeting of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile Innovation and the Advancement of Healthcare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On July 26, the Institute for Policy Innovation held a briefing on Capitol Hill to discuss the future of healthcare, emphasizing mobile innovation as the biggest driver of change. New developments in health information technology are rapidly changing the way medical professionals deliver care and patients manage their own health. Merrill Matthew, a resident scholar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Learning On-The-Go” Promotes Broadband for Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Communications Commission recently launched a pilot program called “Learning On-The-Go” to promote education beyond the classroom made available through broadband technology. The program will provide $9 million to 20 schools and libraries across the country for them to use in innovative ways during the 2011-2012 school year. The initiative is part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Rep. Urges Congress to Go Green By Going Paperless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[California Representative Mike Honda urged his colleagues in the U.S. Congress to start thinking about going green by reducing the amount of paper Congress uses and becoming more dependent on technology. “I believe every member can support moving toward a more paperless Congress as technology allows. I would join my colleagues on both sides of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Businesses Can Learn From the Telework Act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, President Obama signed the Telework Enhancement Act requiring all government agencies to develop telework policies and processes. The deadline to comply with the Act, June 9, is quickly approaching. For businesses interesting in starting, expanding or improving their own telework policies, some lessons in cloud computing can be learned from the government agencies’ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nextgenweb.org/home/what-businesses-can-learn-from-the-telework-act</link>
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		<title>Recent Study Shows Health IT is Environmentally Healthy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent report by Kaiser Permanente found that Health IT adoption not only improves healthcare, but it also can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The study calculated that adoption of electronic health records, digital prescriptions and other health IT technology could save over 1,000 tons of paper that would have been used for medical charts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best of NextGenWeb in 2010…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve covered a lot of ground here on NextGenWeb in the past year.   Going from conferences to events to intimate meetings, we’ve brought the action to you through interviews, blog coverage, livetweets and more! So what were our favorites?   It’s hard to pick.  We’ve been to the leading technology events like Consumer Electronics Show, SxSW [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zogby Survey Finds People Can’t Live Without Broadband Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What technology has had the greatest impact on our society and is the one that people say they can&#8217;t live without?  Not surprisingly, broadband Internet ranked at the top according to the recent survey results of Zogby Interactive. 24 percent named high-speed Internet, followed closely by Facebook at 22 percent. As CNET points out, gender [...]]]></description>
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