Connected Nation Inc. estimates that national broadband deployment programs in the U.S. would result in an economic stimulus of over $134 billion annually. This table illustrates the breakdown of where Connected Nation believes that money would come from.
This chart from The Mercury News illustrates that Silicon Valley companies donated five times more money to President-elect Barack Obama than to his opponent Sen. John McCain:
It's a wild Web out there. Get a glimpse of it with these links from Newsvine (hit "refresh" if headlines don't appear right away):
Venture capital funding in high-tech sectors, as a % of total VC investment (2005 or latest available year)
Source: OECD STI Scoreboard 2007
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