Nordic Geospatial Blog –

As the foundation of the information ‘superhighway’, broadband connectivity across the US (rural, urban, tribal, etc.) is a vital component of the critical infrastructure of our nation’s future communications and competitiveness – well done FCC maps and GIS team!

http://www.fcc.gov/maps

Great blog and small business cyber security planning resource
http://www.fcc.gov/blog/empowering-small-businesses-become-cyber-secure

For developers – http://www.fcc.gov/developers

GIS programs – http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/info/maps/programs/

Embeddable map collection > http://tiles.mapbox.com/fcc

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128004928

FCC National Broadband Plan – March 2010 -
http://download.broadband.gov/plan/national-broadband-plan.pdf

SAID, CISCO, and Olviedo Report for context -
http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/newsandevents/Documents/BQS%202009%20final.pdf

http://www.cisco.com/web/MT/news/09/news_021009a.html

Test your speed -
http://news.nsgic.org/2010/03/test-your-broadband-speed-be-part-of.html

http://www.broadband.gov/

http://www.broadband.gov/qualitytest/about/

The Economist responds -
http://www.economist.com/world/united-states/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15732610

Recent C-SPAN Congressional testimonies on broadband (Vivek Kundra/US CIO et al), and catastrophic disaster response.

CA OCIO’s GIO, Mike Byrne

http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=27&extmode=view&extid=278

http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=288264-1

http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=288057-1