The Internet Innovation Alliance's National Broadband strategy symposium is happening at the Newseum today. The event is streaming live on the IIA website, and you can follow various attendees on Twitter with the hashtag #iia.
This morning, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project released data on broadband adoption, and it's quite interesting. Despite the recession, broadband adoption is increasing.
In response to this good news, Arts+Labs Co-chairs Mike McCurry and Mark McKinnon have released the following statement.
This morning, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project released data on broadband adoption, and it's quite interesting. Despite the recession, broadband adoption is increasing.
Home broadband adoption stood at 63% of adult Americans as of April 2009, up from 55% in May 2008.What's more, 55% of home broadband users said "broadband was very important to at least one dimension of their lives and community, such as communicating with health care providers, government officials, sharing information about the community, or contributing to economic growth."
The latest findings of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project mark a departure from the stagnation in home high-speed adoption rates that had prevailed from December 2007 through December 2008. During that period, Pew Internet Project surveys found that home broadband penetration remained in a narrow range between 54% and 57%.
In response to this good news, Arts+Labs Co-chairs Mike McCurry and Mark McKinnon have released the following statement.
The continued growth in broadband adoption shows that even in tough economic times Americans are excited by the emerging digital society. This trend is driven in part by content providers' growing enthusiasm for distributing their work on the web, which stimulates broadband adoption by making the Internet more valuable to consumers.
By embracing legal content, consumers, in turn, support a prosperous digital society by encouraging the creative and technology communities to expand their investment in the Internet and its infrastructure.
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