"Here’s the challenge: nearly 40% of all Americans do not have broadband in the
home. And if you are earn less than $50,000 a year, or you are a minority or you live in a rural area, chances are better than 60 percent that you are on the wrong side of the digital
divide."


I am flipping through the FCC documents released on their website for opportunity and inspiration.

As an indirect government employee, that provides a federally sponsored service I believe there is a common intersection in the FCC's broadband goals with the digital (internet based) product on which I work. First of all the Federal Office of Special Education share's obvious funding and civic missions with the Federal Communications Commision. Second transparency is an omnipresent theme in government and internet reality these days, something makes me think that the win win situation (that of making the FCC's success our success) is just right around the corner or barried in a pile of URLs and PDF documents. Third, the obvious similarity to a federal agency sponsoring an internet based educational product and the words of Chairman Genachowski,

"The statute is clear about what our goals must be. We must find ways to ensure that all
people of the United States have access to broadband. We must devise a detailed strategy
to ensure affordability of broadband. We must evaluate the nation’s deployment of
broadband, including via federal grants. And we must ensure that our broadband
infrastructure and services advance national purposes, including job creation and
economic growth -- whose importance was emphasized by today’s new unemployment
numbers -- education, health care, energy, public safety, civic participation and many
others."


I understand the process of my mind, I start conceptually big and widdle down subcategories and and allies of potential direction.

I already have a solid contact in the FCC who is a long time user and champion of my cause.

The question I will focus on answering is ......
well i don't have that yet so let me rattle out a couple subcategories.

Obama style campagning: internet technology leveraged for politics.

Rural/underserved America.

Our goals overlapping with the FCC's goals. What are our goals?

How do our goals overlap with the FCC goals.

what does this mean to Puerto Rico?

Genachowski quote:

"It matters for the same reason that previous generations built systems of canals, and railroads,
and interstate highways, and a telephone network that stretched to every corner of America.
Infrastructure, a clunky word, I know – but infrastructure matters. It is the way jobs and
commerce, innovation and progress of all kinds – in education and health care and energy – are
spread across the country. And in the 21st Century, broadband infrastructure will be the platform
for growth and opportunity for us, our children, and our children’s children."