I’m excited by what I’m reading over at Carl Malamud’s Public.Resource.Org this morning. He makes a series of suggestions for improving our government/internet interface, including providing live and archived audio feeds from all capitol hearing rooms, creating a .gov computing cloud to provide dozens of major technical services to any government organization, putting all archived federal video and photographs online, and creating a Rural Internetification Administration. This stuff just isn’t particularly difficult, especially when rolled into existing related practices, and it’s awfully important.
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I’m liking that Rural Internetification Administration thing. But I keep hearing about failed WiFi-like systems (Pulaski and Harrisonburg come to mind).
How cool would it be to bring affordable broadband to rural America? No longer would people have to simply take Fox New’s word on whether Barack Obama was a Muslim terrorist.