Jeff Deckman
President, Capability Accelerators, and former chair of the Rhode Island Technology Council
Providence, RI
As a small business owner in Rhode Island, I was encouraged to hear about President Obama’s Jobs Summit. In a previous blog for NextGenWeb, I detailed the integral role broadband has played in how I operate my business. Not only have I experienced these benefits first-hand, I am an independent business advisor and have seen the innovative ways other business owners I advise are using broadband to grow their business and create new jobs.
During this challenging time for our nation’s economy, we are poised for a promising economic transformation made possible by the power of broadband. We have heard the President and other members of his cabinet emphasize the role broadband plays in job creation and I expect it was a central part of the summit discussions among top business and labor leaders inside the White House.
Green job creation, health IT technology that creates jobs and reduces health care costs, expanded educational opportunities to give more people access to job opportunities, broadband is the common denominator making all of this possible. I pay close attention to these developments having served as the chair of the Rhode Island Technology Council. Recent studies have shown that an accelerated broadband push would provide a nationwide economic stimulus of $134 billion while creating 2.4 million new jobs. While all of the competing studies out there in the public domain may come up with different facts and figures, they all show that broadband is a job-creation MVP.
Broadband providers invest significant capital in infrastructure that has positive ramifications throughout the U.S. economy. The public and private sector, elected officials, business and community leaders must all work together to ensure we have the right policies in place that will continue to foster the private investment necessary to help our economy realize the full potential of broadband. It is essential to the future of my business, my state, and our nation’s economic future.
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