Investments To Build The Digital 21st Century Infrastructure With Super Fast Broadband

It is apparant that government leaders find the time ripe to invest in current and new infrastructures to support 21st century economy and society. A kind of New Deal, as in the late thirties. Barack Obama, in his weekly YouTube address, and Gordon Brown, see below, find it important to invest in new jobs, smart and green energy, infrastructure (old & new), education and healthcare.

01/03/09: President-elect Obama's Weekly Address


The UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has spoken exclusively to The Observer (Guardian) about new plans to help create 100,000 jobs through investment, including a rough statement of financial support for development of next generation superfast broadband networks.

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is seen in his front room at his home in Scotland. North Queensferry, Fife, Scotland. Photograph: Murdo Macleod
Brown suggested infrastructure such as high-speed broadband could be the modern equivalent of FDR's programme: "When we talk about the roads and the bridges and the railways that were built in previous times - and those were anti-recession measures taken to help people through difficult times - you could [by comparison] talk about the digital infrastructure and that form of communications revolution at a period when we want to stimulate the economy. It's a very important thing."

Source: ISPReview