larry irving and the 'digital divide'

Attending the IUG's keynote address, with Larry Irving, a former Clinton administration official who worked to focus on the concept of the 'digital divide'; he now runs a technology company. He is emphasizing the importance of YouTube (7-10 percent of the current activity on the Internet) and broadband (with access to broadband taking the place of Internet access from a decade ago). He's describing the fact that many foreign counties have higher thresholds (in megabits) of bandwidth performance in comparison to the relatively low expectations in the US. Irving noted the importance of changing these expectations and the level of bandwidth penetration in the US.