Rep Watson Wants Broadband Strategy to Create 'Global Students'

Rep Diane Watson (D-CA) said broadband-enabled technology is an indispensable tool for educating a generation of young Americans to operate in a globalized world and share knowledge with their peers worldwide. but she warned that gaps in technological capabilities between societies may increasingly place them on threshold between what Alvin Toffler called the Second and Third Wave of Civilization. Rep Watson praised the Obama administration's broadband initiatives with an "innovation agenda" capable of tackling the "grand challenges."