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The Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition

The Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition. John Windhausen, Jr. Coordinator, SHLB Coalition www.shlbc.org (202) 256-9616 jwindhausen@telepoly.com. SHLB Coalition Members (examples). Schools (CCSSO, ISTE, CoSN ) Community Colleges (AACC, ITC) Health (AHA, NRHA, HIMSS)

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The Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition

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  1. The Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition John Windhausen, Jr. Coordinator, SHLB Coalition www.shlbc.org (202) 256-9616 jwindhausen@telepoly.com

  2. SHLB Coalition Members (examples) • Schools (CCSSO, ISTE, CoSN) • Community Colleges (AACC, ITC) • Health(AHA, NRHA, HIMSS) • Libraries(ALA, COSLA, ULC) • Higher Education (EDUCAUSE, ARL) • National R&E Networks (Internet2, NLR) • State R&E Networks (The Quilt, Merit, NYSERNET, NCREN) • Municipalities(NATOA) • Public Media (Access Humboldt) • Public Safety (NENA) • Private Sector (Microsoft, Google, Sunesys, Zayo, ENA) • Public Interest (New America Foundation, Public Knowledge) • Foundations (Gates, Benton, Knight)

  3. SHLB Coalition Mission To ensure that schools (K-12 and higher education), libraries, health care providers, public safety, public media, and other anchor institutions have affordable, high-capacity broadband.

  4. Anchor Institutions are unique: Neither residential nor business. Anchor Institutions provide essential services: Digital literacy, distance education, remote telemedicine, job-training, e-government services, basic research. Anchor institutions serve diverse and often vulnerable community members: Elderly, low-income, disabled, homeless, travelers, youth and even residential.

  5. SHLB Advocacy 2009-2010 • BTOP: SHLB asked for Infrastructure projects to focus on anchor institutions. Success. • UCAN: SHLB supported creating a Unified Community Anchor Network to aggregate traffic and broadband resources to serve all anchor institutions. Success • E-Rate: SHLB asked for inclusion of dark fiber and lit fiber. Success

  6. SHLB Advocacy 2011 • Rural Universal Service Fund/Connect America Fund: SHLB has asked the FCC to fund broadband to anchor institutions in rural, high-cost regions. Pending • U.S. Ignite: SHLB is engaged in discussions with Obama Administration on next-generation broadband platform and applications. Pending

  7. SHLB Advocacy/Our Goal: National Broadband Plan Goal No. 4: Every American community should have affordable access to at least 1 gigabit per second broadband service to anchor institutions such as schools, libraries, hospitals and government buildings.

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