Cataloging Broadband – Infrastructure or

Innovation platform

Brad Wynter 18 March 2011

Information EconomyEconomy in which knowledge is the primary raw material and source of value. It is characterized by (1) convergence and integration of communication and data processing technologies into information technology (IT), (2) pervasive influence of IT on economic activity such that the most workers are information workers and most products are information products, and (3) application of IT networks throughout the economic institutions, organizations, and processes resulting in a very high degree flexibility, weakening of regulatory control, and acceleration of globalization.

Broadband as innovation platform

Broadband as innovation platform

Broadband as innovation platform

Broadband as innovation platform

Information Economy

• Broadband is the new transport system for the information economy

• Local Communities will become more reliant on electronic transport and less reliant on physical transport

Intelligent Community

• Councils are in the business of creating and maintaining sustainable communities

• Broadband provides the opportunity to strengthen local communities

Sustainable Community•People leave their local community to:• Further their education• Get work• Address health

related issues• Participate in

new communities

How can broadband transform libraries?