Levin: Net Has Potential to Improve Minority Job, Health Care, Education Opportunities
Last updated: November 29, 2010 - 11:32am
Blair Levin, the man leading the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan effort, spoke at the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council's Broadband and Social Justice Summit on Friday.
He said the Internet has the potential to "exacerbate in equality," which is why universal broadband deployment and adoption is so important. Levin said keys to spurring that adoption are a "social infrastructure" that "weaves our investments in digital access into the fabric of our communities," with that fabric including libraries and community centers; "social innovation" like online credit counseling or grant programs to "micro entrepreneurs; and "social purpose media," which means high-value content from private and government sources.
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