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StrategicGoa Is and Actions <br />Hawaii understands that advanced broadband services are essential infrastructure for an <br />innovation economy and a knowledge society in the 21s' century. As a result of proactive policy <br />initiatives, Hawaii residents and businesses throughout the State have access to advanced <br />broadband services of the caliber and at the pricing available in the leading developed nations <br />of the world. <br />Vision Statement <br />Hawaii Broadband Task Force <br />2008 <br />Our ability to access, to connect our families to the world, to create jobs, to educate our <br />people, that's what's going to restore us. We can't do this if we are not connected. This is <br />about the survival of Hawaii. <br />Jack Wong <br />CEO <br />Kamehameha Schools <br />Hawaii Broadband Hui meeting, August 19, 2020 <br />It isn't usually until crisis or dramatic changes in society occur that risk and opportunity <br />lock steps. In the past decade there have been numerous attempts to lift the <br />opportunities and inequities of Internet access as a tool for new industry and <br />foundational infrastructure in modern economics for all of Hawaii. The advantages, <br />barriers, and opportunities have been documented and reported to hopefully inspire <br />the investments of capital, policies, and programing necessary to provide equity and <br />more in this high-speed communication world. <br />It would be good to recognize who can take advantage of high-speed access. The <br />answer is simple: Anyone and everyone who has access, the necessary tools, and <br />computer literacy. With open network protections, tool has no bias for the user. What <br />might the advancing of Hawaii's Broadband Initiative mean to a community that has <br />overall a higher tolerance and acceptance of differences in people? What might it <br />mean to a community that has lenses of creativity and innovation because of our <br />-5- <br />