The decision to bundle the provision in this way has lead experts to surmise that a large take-up of the internet system will take place, for which the implications in communications and learning are dramatic.
Many local groups in the city are speculating over the way in which the new technology will affect their lives. These discussion groups, which have emerged spontaneously, speculate that the new internet capabilities, which will be provided by the Google Broadband service, can massively improve the ease of access for telemedicine and distance learning.
Mike Burk is co-chairman of a committee, selected to consider the best ways in which the city could put the Google broadband system to use, whose members are drawn from Kansas city (Kansas) and Kansas city (Missouri). He said that no one has a solid perspective on what the new internet system will mean, adding that it is not the case that it will chance the way people access information suddenly and independently, rather that it will depend on the people of the City using this opportunity in the best way they can.
The Kauffman Foundation, an organisation which aims to improve education and assist entrepreneurship, launched a website called KCGideas.com in response to Google’s decision and in order to explore ways in which the City could use this resource. Some of its notable suggestions included making Kansas city into a videoconferencing hub, which would have great implications for distance learning.
Gigabit Challenge, an organisation which aims to promote the most inventive use of the new Broadband system across the world, has offered $100,000 for the start-up company that utilises the broadband connection in the most inventive way. [Competition entries are via GigabitChallenge.com]
The Google Broadband system utilises fibreoptic technology and should allow bandwidths of up to 1 Gigabit (1,000 Megabits). This represents a colossal advance in communications (a common link-up speed in the UK is 4 Megabits), meaning that the new bandwidths are an order of magnitude faster than that of their predecessors.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Oliver Cox
Quelle/Source: PAB News, 07.11.2011
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