Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle Asks Legislature to Create Communications Commission to Enhance Broadband and IT Infrastructure - Government Technology

Among the administration's priorities, as outlined by the governor in her state of the state address on Monday, includes long-term initiatives to upgrade and modernize the state's critical infrastructure, such as the six-year, $4.2 billion Highways Modernization Plan; a five-year, $240 million "Recreational Renaissance" plan to reinvigorate the state's land- and ocean-based recreational facilities to renew and care for state parks, trails, small boat harbors and forest reserves; and the creation of a new Hawaii Communications Commission to focus on enhancing the state's broadband and information technology communications infrastructure.

Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle Asks Legislature to Create Communications Commission to Enhance Broadband and IT Infrastructure - Government Technology