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WHILE Virginia's Public Private Partnership Act may be experiencing growing pains as projects from the Midtown and Downtown tunnels to HOT lanes on Interstate 95 see the light of day and invite public scrutiny, there is little doubt that PPPs, or P3s, are the wave of the future. Indeed, the United States is something of a laggard in embracing this financing tool, which draws upon private-sector capital and management to build roads and other infrastructure. Europe has roughly five times the P3 investment as the U.S. Even Latin America exceeds the U.S. as a market for this type of project.
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A public-private partnership between Jackson County, Oregon, and several city governments in the county and a private library management company saved the county's public libraries from indefinite closure after they had been shuttered for a six-month period because of a countywide budget crisis. In July 2007, the county issued a request for proposals (RFP) in search of creative but sound solutions for reopening and managing the public library system on a significantly smaller operating budget.
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Our nation's first responders deserve 21st- century interoperable broadband com- munications. Broadband means first responders can send and receive video and images that can save lives. Interop- erability means first responders from different agencies can communicate readily with one another to avoid the tragic loss of lives and time that we saw in the Sept. 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina. Congress must decide between a fiscally irresponsible 20th- century model of dedicated, expensive public-safety networks that become rapidly obsolete or a 21st-century model of cost-effective public-private, shared infrastructure. Our country can afford neither billions of dollars to build and operate a new dedicated public-safety network nor the reallocation of commercial spectrum to dedicated publ...
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WASHINGTON, March 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) commends President Obama for calling for education innovation through learning technologies, and for recognizing the important role played by technology and content companies in meeting these education needs. SIIA also called on Congress to support related investments, including both the Obama Administration's ARPA-ED research proposal as well as funding for the Enhancing Education through Technology (EETT) program as needed to bring the researched learning technologies to teachers and students. The pending U.S. House-passed and Senate draft FY2011 Continuing Resolutions would eliminate funding for this program, in contrast to the technology-enabled innovation called for by the Pr...
