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Cataloging Broadband – Infrastructure or Innovation platform. Brad Wynter 18 March 2011. Information Economy.
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Cataloging Broadband – Infrastructure or Innovation platform Brad Wynter 18 March 2011
Information Economy Economy in which knowledge is the primaryraw material and source of value. It is characterized by (1) convergence and integration of communication and data processingtechnologies into information technology (IT), (2) pervasiveinfluence of IT on economicactivity such that the most workers are information workers and most products are information products, and (3) application of IT networks throughout the economic institutions, organizations, and processes resulting in a very highdegreeflexibility, weakening of regulatory control, and acceleration of globalization.
Information Economy Broadband is the new transport system for the information economy Local Communities will become more reliant on electronic transport and less reliant on physical transport
Intelligent Community Councils are in the business of creating and maintaining sustainable communities Broadband provides the opportunity to strengthen local communities
Sustainable Community People leave their local community to: Further their education Get work Address health related issues Participate in new communities