Saturday, November 05, 2011

Broadband Access Must Be Global. - Douglas E. Castle - The Internationalist Page

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Broadband access to the full use of the communications, commercial and social networking capabilities of the Internet is increasingly critical to the economic, educational and social welfare of the World's populace. Peoples in geographical areas without this lifeline resource are suffering, and will increasingly continue to suffer a growing disparity with their 'better connected' counterparts.

It is imperative to get all of the world connected as rapidly as possible in order to reduce the incidence of poverty, ignorance, enslavement amongst those without access. Correcting this inequity would go a great distance toward narrowing the dangerous divide between countries and cultures -- the type of divide that historically has fomented wars.

Broadening broadband would help to reduce many of the dividers between members of the international community which lead to hostilities. And for those of you who are strictly pragmatic capitalists... this would lead to the opening of new markets and labor forces. Simply stated, "How can you reach prospective customers and employees who cannot receive your signal?"

A brief report from some time ago (courtesy of the UN Newswire) cites the United Nations' goals with respect to the proliferation of broadband access.


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Douglas E Castle for The Internationalist Page and The Global Futurist.



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