Canadians as well as the citizens and residents of many other countries take services such as roads, sewer/water, electrical power and phone service as basic rights.
Should broadband be in this category too? Especially given the country, the founding home of the telephone, has vast distances and complex geography that make extensive communications services a necessity?
Via TMCnet Posted by: Steve
Darryl Kramp, MP Prince Edward-Hastings visited Limerick Lake Lodge in Limerick Township, on April 7, to commend the lake’s cottagers association, The Limerick Waterways Ratepayers Association, (LWRA), for its partnering with CFDC to bring broadband service to one of the most sparsely populated areas of southern Ontario.
The lake has over 150 seasonal residences which are in use during the three cottage seasons. Many of those cottagers hold positions in the business world that can be performed by tele-commuting…
Via Bancroft This Week – Ontario, CA.
According to a new report released by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation faster broadband networks will be crucial to enabling next-generation Web-based applications and services that will play important roles in improving quality of life and boosting economic growth. While getting broadband service to the Americans who lack it is an important policy target, next-generation broadband will deliver a wave of new benefits to consumers, society, businesses, and the economy.
The report suggests that “deploying next-generation broadband networks will have profoundly positive benefits for consumers, businesses, academic institutions and society in general.”
There is an important message here for Northern Ontario where we not only should be thinking about basic connectivity to the Net for everyone but we also need to make sure we are keeping pace with the larger urban centers in terms of speed and delivery options. Steve
Via Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
A year ago, the outlook for corporate telecommuting seemed optimistic. More and more businesses and government agencies were taking the risk to allow their employees to telework. This was good news to cubicle dwellers who saw teleworking as a way to achieve better work-life balance and for business owners to attract top talent and cut costs in the long run.
Then, the economy turned out in such a way that taking these risks suddenly became too risky. In times like these, businesses will lean towards one of two approaches to this dilemma:
Via WebWorkerDaily