Olympia Snowe: “I think that it is key to be at the front end of it to identify those opportunities and not when it is too late.”

In closing, libraries are vital community technology hubs, and we simply cannot allow inadequate bandwidth to be the limiting factor for what our students and our nations can achieve.

The E-Rate program has fundamentally transformed education in this country.

I just encourage all of us to think about children, about the problems they face, and about our responsibility to help them navigate their way through those waters.

We need to create E-Rate 2.0.