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Gordon Brown suggests office broadband could save jobs
05/01/2009
Prime minister Gordon Brown has unveiled plans for an economic new deal, of the kind unveiled in the 1930s in the US, which would see large investment in a new superfast home and office broadband network.
In an interview with the Observer over the weekend, Mr Brown said that a new broadband network will be a key part of his plan to create 100,000 more jobs through investment in infrastructure.
According to Computing, Mr Brown compared the investment to the Keynesian New Deal introduced by President Roosevelt in 1930s America, which saw massive investment in railways, roads and communication infrastructure in an attempt to help the US out of the great depression.
Mr Brown told the Observer: "When we talk about the roads and the bridges and the railways that were built in previous times - and those were anti-recession measures taken to help people through difficult times - you could [by comparison] talk about the digital infrastructure and that form of communications revolution at a period when we want to stimulate the economy."
Recently Jose Manual Barroso, the head of the European commission, echoed Mr Brown’s assertions by saying that investment in broadband could play a key part in helping Europe’s economy out of the recession.
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