Belinda Johnson Quotes

Society always needs a level playing field. In order to do that, you have to have opportunity, and providing that opportunity begins with 'how do we bridge that gap,' that so-called Digital Divide? How can we get internet into every home possible?

What we figured out was that in order to get everyone in the world to have basic access to the Internet, that's a problem that's probably billions of dollars. Or maybe low tens of billions. With the right innovation, that's actually within the range of affordability.

In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.

Internet and government is Topic A in every nation, all around the world. There is the question of getting the Internet built. That involves persuading government to have regulatory policies. It involves new technology to bring the Internet to rural places.

We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet.

We feel there is already widespread broadband available today.

We know that for every 1 person who get access to the Internet, one new job gets created, and one person gets lifted out of poverty. So in theory, going and connecting everyone on the Internet is a large national and even global priority.

The most important thing is, we really want to make sure the American people are able to get to any Web site they'd like to get to.

Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

If we're the country that makes Amazon and Facebook and Twitter, why can't the federal government have websites and digital services that are awesome?

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.

Improving the Internet is just one means, albeit an important one, by which to improve the human condition. It must be done with an appreciation for the civil and human rights that deserve protection - without pretending that access itself is such a right.

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

Governments should look at investment in broadband as a national priority on the grounds that having broadband access for virtually everyone creates opportunities for the development of the economy that wouldn't otherwise be available.

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

I believe that interconnectivity is a human right.

There's no such thing as the 'Irish Internet.' It's just the Internet.

If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.

Digital India is about empowering the citizen - it's mobile, it's cloud, it's storage - we are in all those areas.

If getting young people computer-literate through putting school systems online is a no-brainer, at least in retrospect, getting older people and those in rural areas online can be a tougher nut to crack.

Digital life and digital services are a multi-wave business.

I think that wireless has the opportunity to solve a whole bunch of problems, including I believe world poverty.

If accessing the Internet becomes more difficult for low-income communities, academic and employment competition may be undermined, and could damage the prospects of upward mobility for low-income New Yorkers and further exacerbate income inequality.