Law Enforcement
This video showed how rural law enforcement in Mississippi is embracing mobile technologies by equipping squad cars to wireless data systems.   This allows police to more efficiently inspect commercial vehicles and gives them instant access to criminal history and outstanding warrants.   This technology not only improves public safety, but the safety of law enforcement as well.

Education
The video showed how Montclair State University in New Jersey is using Blackboard.com to connect students and faculty outside of the classroom.   Blackboard provides 24/7 access to course schedules, podcasts, feedback and discussions. Snowden notes that although some schools are embracing technology others are banning it and made the analogy to the old debate over whether it’s OK to bring calculators into the classroom.

Telemedicine
This video showed a real medical exam taking place in rural Oregon.   Only the doctor examining the patient was in downtown Idaho and performing the exam via robotics.   The patient, who was at risk of a rare pregnancy complication, was able to have access to a top specialist despite her rural location.

Civic Engagement
This time, Snowden presented a single image, but he was confident that the photo said it all. The picture was of President Obama on election night.     Broadband played an instrumental role in Obama’s win and over 20% of people were engaged in the election via cell phone.   Snowden predicts ever-increasing roles of broadband technology in future campaigns.