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By Winter Casey, Reporter, BroadbandCensus.com

WASHINGTON, November 18, 2009 - The opening speaker of a summit focused on improving broadband penetration to minority and low-income areas of the country, and criticized advocates of Net neutrality for being out of touch with the needs of minorities as he attempted to enlist the mantle civil rights leader Martin Luther King into his cause. “[L]et us remember the worlds of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face-to-face with another problem,’” said Julius Hollis, the founder of the Alliance for Digital Equality, in prepared remarks. “If we fail to find common-ground on the issues before the U.S. Federal Communications Commission relative to the rulemaking governing broadband adoption, the financing of broadband infrastructure and the over-arching issue of net neutrality, the long-term socio-economic chaos that will be inflicted upon our society would be far too devastating to comprehend,” warned Hollis. Hollis delivered his remarks Wednesday during his group’s 2009 Minority Broadband Summit, which was held at the Newseum with roses on the table and a view of the Washington skyline. Hollis dove into the issue of Net neutrality or whether the FCC should step in and regulate internet access...

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WASHINGTON, October 16, 2009 - BroadbandCensus.com on Friday released, for FREE, the full-length video of the Broadband Breakfast Club event on October 13, 2009: "Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan: Health Care and Telemedicine." The event is available on BroadbandCensus.com at the following link. The event featured Dr. Adam Darkins, who leads the National Telehealth Programs for U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Dr. Ted Eytan, Medical Director, Delivery Systems Operations Improvement, Kaiser Permanente; Col. Ron Poropatich, M.D., Department of the Army, who is responsible for a range of telemedicine activities of the military; and Dr. Jay Sanders, CEO, Global Telemedicine Group; often dubbed the "father of telemedicine." To register for the next Broadband Breakfast Club, to be held on Tuesday, November 10, 2009, please visit http://broadbandbreakfast.eventbrite.com. The Broadband Breakfast Club is sponsored by the Benton Foundation, the International Broadband Electric Communications, Inc., and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association. Additional sponsorship opportunities are available. For further information, contact sales@broadbandcensus.com, or call 202-580-8196. The Broadband Breakfast Club is Copyright © Broadband Census News...

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By Christina Kirchner, Reporter-Researcher, BroadbandCensus.com

WASHINGTON, October 13, 2009 - Hospitals and health care are the last of the industrial-age institutions that have yet to go online as department stores, banks, and venues entertainment have already gone, panelists said at the Broadband Breakfast Club Tuesday morning. With the Federal Communications Commission charged with developing a National Broadband Plan by February 2010, health care is one obvious area potentially impacted by greater broadband. One of the most significant ways in which broadband is likely to impact health care is through the integration of technology into the fabric on consumers’ lives, as with greater use of smart phones. Ron Poropatich, a doctor and colonel in the U.S. Army , said that physicians dealing with returning active members of the military suffering from traumatic brain injuries or post-traumatic stress syndrome find that art of text messaging has become a vital source of scheduling and reminding. “[Physicians] would send e-mails to patients in the military of when their appointments would be and the e-mail would be sent back because their e-mail boxes are full,” said Poropatich. “When we would ask them about it, they would say, ‘oh, just send me a text.’” This advancement has been applied in other contexts,...

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