Leadership
Rick Boucher
Honorary Chairman
Bruce P. Mehlman
Co-Chairman
Jamal Simmons
Co-Chairman
Tracey Sawicki
Executive Director
The Internet Innovation Alliance is a broad-based coalition of business and non-profit organizations that aim to ensure every American, regardless of race, income or geography, has access to the critical tool that is broadband Internet. The IIA seeks to promote public policies that support equal opportunity for universal broadband availability and adoption so that everyone, everywhere can seize the benefits of the Internet - from education to health care, employment to community building, civic engagement and beyond.
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The number of wireless-enabled laptops, netbooks, and wireless broadband modems reported on carriers’ networks as of December 2011 was 20.1 million
– up 48.6% from 13.6 million as of December 2010.
Definition of the Internet
The Internet is a series of private connected networks and works because of private investment. Competition and innovation make the Internet what it is. The current system has kept the Internet robust by encouraging the use of new technology to increase network efficiency and the offering of new services.