Ray Ramsey, CEO of One Economy Corporation, highlights his three main points about the supply and demand side of universal service. Ramsey says that connectivity, public purpose content, digital literacy, and human capital are the key tools for achieving this goal. (2:14)
After the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet laughed at a few “Star Wars” references, such as likening the future of the Universal Service Fund (USF) to the struggle between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, they talked to a panel of witnesses, which included Hollywood director George Lucas, about serious issues: connecting rural America to the digital world through broadband and wireless technology and lessening the “digital divide”, which slows the U.S. down in the global market. (more…)
