On the cusp of Bernadine Joselyn’s testimony earlier this week to the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, the Blandin Foundation’s Kathy Annette implores policymakers to look adoption rural adoption in an editorial in The Hill…

Minnesota arguably leads the country in rural broadband adoption, despite spotty access.  Why?  Because we have knit together whatever resources available—partnerships, money, leadership—to get the job done.  We have no interest in being left behind by a global economy.  Our children have the same desires to learn and be successful as children anywhere. By tackling broadband, we can connect to the world and still live in the places we love and call home.  And we do whatever we can to get the job done.

One of Blandin Foundation’s first rules of community leadership is, “You have to do it yourself, but you can’t do it alone.”  Never has this been truer than when it comes to broadband.  Despite our fierce independence out in the countryside, we know that we can be so much more successful on broadband access and adoption with the support of our fellow Americans, via Congress.