Blair Levin - Next Generation of Urban Development & Next Administration - GCS16

1. Cities, Technology, the Next
Generation of Urban Development
and the Next Administration
Blair Levin
Executive Director, Gig.U
Former Executive Director, The United States National Broadband Plan
Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Brookings Institute Metropolitan Policy Program
Kansas City Gigabit Summit
Kansas City, KC
May 17, 2016

2. What We Don’t Know
1
V.
Who Wins?

3. What We Do Know
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1. Cities will lead the economy
2. The cities that will lead will be
those that ride macro-trends
3. Cities will take actions based on
long-term actions
4. More cities will focus on the
gigabit/connected cities opportunity

4. What We Do Know
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1. Cities will lead the economy
2. The cities that will lead will be
those that ride macro-trends
3. Cities will take actions based on
long-term actions
4. More cities will focus on the
gigabit/connected cities opportunity

5. What We Do Know
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1. Cities will lead the economy
2. The cities that will lead will be
those that ride macro-trends
3. Cities will take actions based on
long-term actions
4. More cities will focus on the
gigabit/connected cities opportunity

6. All Sectors Rely on Knowledge Exchange to Improve Performance
All Transformed
by Three Big
Technology
Trends
The Big
Data/Storage
Revolution
The Computing
Revolution
The Communications
Revolution
Data
Data
Collection
Analysis
Revised Course of Actions
Dissemination
Data
Feedback

7. Broadband Led Urban Development
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Transportation
•Smart Roads
•Smart Transit
Real Estate
•WiFi for parks,
tourist areas
•Building codes
•Construction
Management
Economic
Development
•Abundant
Bandwidth
•Innovation Zones
Social Services
•On-Line Delivery
•Personalized
Services
Education
•Connected
Classrooms
•Overcoming
Homework Gap
Broadband

8. What We Do Know
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1. Cities will lead the economy
2. The cities that will lead will be
those that ride macro-trends
3. Cities will take actions based on
long-term actions
4. More cities will focus on the
gigabit/connected cities opportunity

9. DC Style
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City style is, uh, different…..

10. What We Do Know
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1. Cities will lead the economy
2. The cities that will lead will be
those that ride macro-trends
3. Cities will take actions based on
long-term actions
4. More cities will focus on the
gigabit/connected cities opportunity

11. Gigabit Map of the United States 2010
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12. Google’s Map
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13. AT&T’s Map
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14. And now we got ourselves a…..
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15. What We Do Know
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1. Cities will lead the economy
2. The cities that will lead will be those that ride
macro-trends
3. Cities will take actions based on long-term
actions
4. More cities will focus on the gigabit/connected
cities opportunity
And therefore new Administration should move
forward by helping cities move forward with that
opportunity

16. What to Tell New Administration?
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Sources of Ideas

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Idea # 1
PCAST for Cities

18. One Report is Not Enough
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Idea # 2
Access Initiative

20. The Basic Equations for Addressing Barriers to Network Deployment
Benefits Accruing To:
• Investor in the network
• Content and applications
• Equipment and devices
• Local community
• The region
• The country
But the only benefits that matter for the investment
case are the benefits that matter to the investor.
Total Benefits
of High-Speed
Networks

21. C + O > (1-r)R + SB + (-CL)
C – Capital Expenditures
O– Operating Expenditures
r – Risk
R- Revenues
SB- System Benefits
(Benefits that drive increased revenues outside the communities where
the new or incremental investments are made.)
CL- Losses due to competition
Currently, the private investment equation usually looks like this:
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Current Math:
Returns Do Not Justify the Investment
Costs Benefits

22. C + O < (1-r)R + SB + (-CL)
But how do we do that in more places?
The Path Forward: Change the Math
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23. Poles: How to Lower Cost of Attachment?
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We Need:
•Climb Once/One
Touch Policies

24. MDUs: How Do We Improve Consumer Choice?
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We Need:
• No Exclusive Access for All Services
• Rules for Equitable Access

25. Thinking Ahead to the Civic Internet of Things
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Do we need new rules for access to spectrum, data?

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Idea # 3
Tax/Next
Generation
Network Deal

27. How Can We Move a Little of
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This
To Accelerate This?

28. 27
Idea # 4
IP Transition +
Adoption Surge

29. Transition Institutions and People Together
+
= Faster, Better, Cheaper Government for All

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Idea # 5
In-Q-Tel4Equity

31. Why Not For Equity?
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32. CLOSING THOUGHT
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33. How Ideas Have a Chance to Be Policies
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If on to do list
Have to be in first 100
days
If in first 100
days
Have to be in transition
If in transition
Have to be in the
conversation by
convention
If in
conversation
by convention
Have to start developing
now

34. How Ideas Have a Chance to Be Policies
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If on to do list
Have to be in first 100
days
If in first 100
days
Have to be in transition
If in transition
Have to be in the
conversation by
convention
If in
conversation
by convention
Have to start developing
now
Us. Right Here.
Right Now.

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Thank You