What if… (broadband)

• What if… focused on keeping every rural hospital open and running – emergency room – community health clinics – drug treatment. What if… Internet speed was faster than urban Internet speed. What if… Build a message around the principle that “small towns cannot afford spectators.” Divide closed.
• What if we considered “THE BIG SORT” by a national effort to link/exchange/[illegible] rural and urban citizens and leaders?
  – Economics (supply/value chains) – Ecosystem services (watersheds) – Should be done between r/u close to each other (regions) and more distant
  National “rural electrifications” for the 21st century – fiber optic spreads to rural communities, education, health, telework