Welcome to Gig.U

The University Community Next Generation Innovation Project, or Gig.U, is a broad-based group of over 30 leading research universities from across the United States. Drawing on America’s rich history of community-led innovation in research and entrepreneurship, Gig.U seeks to accelerate the deployment of ultra high-speed networks to leading U.S. universities and their surrounding communities. Improvements to these networks drive economic growth and stimulate a new generationof innovations addressing critical needs, such as health care and education.

Gig.U members understand that next-gen networks lead to next-gen opportunities.

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President Obama announces ConnectED

Today, President Obama announced a new initiative called ConnectED and called on the Federal Communications Commission to take the steps necessary to build high-speed digital connections to America’s schools and libraries, ensuring that 99 percent of American students can benefit from these advances in teaching and learning.

Gig.U Executive Director and former Director of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan had this to say:

“I applaud the President’s initiative. In the global, bandwidth-delivered economy, the United States needs a strategic bandwidth advantage and that should begin in our nation’s classrooms.”

Gig.U_ConnectEd Statement

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Blair Levin’s remarks to Wisconsin Broadband Summit

Gig.U Executive Director Blair Levin addressed the Wisconsin Broadband Summit and discussed why he believes United States leadership in the global broadband economy is more likely to depend on municipal efforts than federal policy. In the speech, he will take on claims that the 2011 Universal Service Reform effort was “a model of entitlement reform.” [...]
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