Wall Street Journal profiles ConnectKentucky’s role in state’s economic development

Esme Vos | July 28, 2008 at 8:41 am

ConnectKentucky, a non-profit in Kentucky whose goal is to expand the availability of broadband in the state, got a write-up in the Wall Street Journal about its efforts to bring high-speed connections to businesses and people who work from home. The WSJ article mentions, but does not expand upon, people using broadband to work from their homes. With the rising price of petrol, more people should work from home, but without affordable broadband service, that’s impossible.

I am surprised that improving broadband infrastructure - wired and wireless - and making it even more widely available and cheap, is not part of a national energy and environmental policy. It seems to me that this would go hand in hand with improving public transportation and encouraging the development of renewable energy sources (e.g. solar power).

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