Nebraska Law | Bringing Broadband to Rural America
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Gus Hurwitz discusses his work to bring broadband to parts of rural America.
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- [00:00:03.860]So one of the biggest problems that we face
- [00:00:05.710]in America right now is getting everyone
- [00:00:08.020]connected to the internet,
- [00:00:09.980]modern telecommunications networks.
- [00:00:11.860]And especially in rural America,
- [00:00:14.360]closing what we call the rural digital divide.
- [00:00:16.880]In my research studies, the economics of how we do this,
- [00:00:20.470]the technical challenges that we face in doing this,
- [00:00:23.190]and also a lot of the political dynamics
- [00:00:25.580]that we need to overcome
- [00:00:26.810]if we want to get everyone connected to the internet
- [00:00:39.920]Telecommunications touches on every aspect of modern life.
- [00:00:44.200]We actually in rural America have different needs
- [00:00:46.740]to get out of the internet,
- [00:00:48.550]different technological configurations,
- [00:00:50.470]different social needs, different economic needs.
- [00:00:53.150]So one of the things I'm working to understand and overcome
- [00:00:56.020]in my research is how do we get these needs
- [00:00:59.530]reflected into the regulatory tools
- [00:01:01.720]when those tools are really focused on
- [00:01:03.820]letting those in rural America
- [00:01:05.910]use the networks in the same way as those in urban America.
- [00:01:08.740]Hello everyone!
- [00:01:10.120]How are you guys doing?
- [00:01:11.326]Good.
- [00:01:13.130]One of the big issues that we face here in Nebraska
- [00:01:15.930]is the flight from rural America to urban America.
- [00:01:20.120]By building out networks, we're creating greater opportunity
- [00:01:23.870]for people to stay in their home towns,
- [00:01:25.920]to help the local communities continue to grow and thrive,
- [00:01:29.190]and to give something that people want to come back to,
- [00:01:32.230]to help with economic prosperity.
- [00:01:46.020]So I'm trying to bring folks from DC,
- [00:01:48.610]researchers doing national scale of research,
- [00:01:50.700]here to Nebraska,
- [00:01:52.020]to interact with the user base on the ground,
- [00:01:54.220]and the companies on the ground
- [00:01:55.410]to understand how are things different,
- [00:01:57.510]what are the real problems?
- [00:01:59.010]So instead of doing my own research,
- [00:02:00.880]I'm trying to really influence the research
- [00:02:02.730]that's being done globally and on a national scale.
- [00:02:21.430]Nebraska is really one of the best places in the country
- [00:02:24.850]that you can be studying these questions
- [00:02:26.320]because we're in rural America.
- [00:02:28.560]I get to go out and talk to people.
- [00:02:30.430]I get to go into the fields and actually see
- [00:02:32.950]wireless connected combines,
- [00:02:34.930]and talk to the people using them,
- [00:02:36.390]and hear about what their problems are.
- [00:02:38.700]You can't do that anywhere but rural America.
- [00:02:42.280]So it's really a great opportunity to be doing
- [00:02:44.450]this sort of research in this community, in this state.
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