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Technology summit. It is an honor for us to be here today to support this important event for the city and county of San Francisco. My name is ann, and i direct the state Broadband Initiative of the National Telecommunications and information administration, which is in washington, d. C. Our agency and tii is part of the u. S. Commerce department, and it is the executive Branch Agency that is in charge of advising the president on telecommunications and information policy issues. We are at the f...

He discovered for the administration is the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program or btop. This program was established in 2009 by the american reinvestment and recovery act and is administered by ntia. We have nearly 4 billion invested in roughly 230 projects across the country, all aimed at expanding Broadband Access and adoption in the country. And i want to tell you a little bit about the programs and then tell you about why we care so much about this issue. So, we have the btop for inf...

This needs to go well beyond health care. It includes the availability of private housing, employment, education, meaningful relationships, as well as social participation. In addition, we will be working with the centers for medicare and Medicaid Services to develop, refine, and strengthen policies that promote independent living among all populations, especially those served by medicaid. We would also look with cms to promote home and communitybased services and support. Last but not least, i ...

And they allow me to represent San Francisco as the Innovative Center for all the rest of the cities across the country. So we get to compare information and there. What these days i will get to talk to you while i am in washington, d. C. , and you can hear what i am saying across there, so we can enjoy it wherever i go, you know i will be working and not fooling around. Finally, we also are using technology to join our private companies in hiring san franciscans. Hopefully some of your kids, so...

I will be going to rosa parks Senior Center. We just spent 2 million of federal monies to redo that whole Senior Center and allow that to be one of the sites that will post the Technology Advances you are experimenting with today. Our own residents at every location of our Senior Centers are going to enjoy the Technology Advances that we have as a society. This is why we work in a great city like San Francisco. We want everybody connected. We want to make sure the San Francisco connected Program...

Members of our community. This needs to go well beyond health care. It includes the availability of private housing, employment, education, meaningful relationships, as well as social participation. In addition, we will be working with the centers for medicare and Medicaid Services to develop, refine, and strengthen policies that promote independent living among all populations, especially those served by medicaid. We would also look with cms to promote home and communitybased services and suppo...

Will post the Technology Advances you are experimenting with today. Our own residents at every location of our Senior Centers are going to enjoy the Technology Advances that we have as a society. This is why we work in a great city like San Francisco. We want everybody connected. We want to make sure the San Francisco connected Program Reaches all of our seniors, all of the people with disabilities. There is no reason why people ocean not be connected up, and therefore no reason why people shoul...

Senior centers that you live and work in and enjoy yourselves in. Youre going to be able even to read a book online or be able to just have a game and download a game and play with your friends as well. We are all lucky to live in San Francisco, because so many of our Technology Companies have located their headquarters here in San Francisco. [cheers and applause] and because theyre located here, we can always ask them for a favor here and there and make sure no one is left out, because that is ...

What are the technologies and what theyre doing in San Francisco and what the latest discoveries are that we can possibly use to help improve our city. Finally, as someone you know, i celebrated my 60th birthday last week. [applause] and my staff gave me an ipad, and is looking at it i might have to go and join your classes to be able to appreciate all the applications that we have there. So do not be surprised if the guy next to you has a mustache. When i leave here this morning, i will be goin...

The rest of the year. If you read those magazines and they love the candle firethey loved the the candle fire tabletcandkindletablets. Guest these are the programs and you do most you have the net and reedbirds you can dotos, open documents or play games and for example amanda opened up the apps center on my and maybe i will go to the amazon apps store to get new or by new so i can do that. S is also simple to do at every day the amazon apps store has 40 app of the day and it is out of this worl...