Mayor Stephanie Rawlings - Blake on google fiber
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>> Hello, I'm Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor of Baltimore.
This is a [inaudible] moc operation room at Johns Hopkins University.
It's part of the nation's number one program in computer assistive surgery and medical robotics.
The surgical team here includes engineers
and computer scientists along with doctors and nurses.
Together they're inventing new ways of seeing inside the body,
new ways of detecting changes in organ and tissues.
New ways of getting surgeons the information they need in real time.
It's all happening here in Baltimore.
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Baltimore has a history of being a City of Firsts in technology.
In 1800 the first investment banking house
in America was founded in Baltimore by Alexander Brown.
In 1828 the B and O Railroad Company was established
as a first railroad for commercial transportation.
In 1844 the world's first telegraph line was established between Baltimore and Washington
and in 1946 Johns Hopkins produced the first photograph of the earth from space.
None of these important firsts would have been possible if not for Baltimore's dedication
to exploring and inventing new technology.
Baltimore's interest in the Google Fiber For Communities project is
in the spirit of this innovation.
I see Google's plan to build and test the new network technology in U.S. cities
as a win-win for Google and for Baltimore.
Baltimore will respond to the Google Fiber For Communities, RFI.
Delivery of internet at speeds 100 times faster
than what many citizens have today is an amazing project
with limitless potential and opportunities.
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As Mayor I'm interested in what that means for economic development and job creation,
building stronger schools and institutions
and even enhancing our city's public safety infrastructure.
Baltimore is uniquely positioned not only to readily serve as a trial location
for testing ultra high speed networks but also to facilitate broadband elsewhere
and bring significant benefits to residents and institutional partners,
collaborating with us in this bmore fiber effort.
Joining us in the bmore fiber effort are partners like the Walter's Art Museum
which is working to digitize its one of a kind collection
to make it more accessible to the public.
The Baltimore city public school system
where our student's have made great progress would use this expanded internet infrastructure
to build on their progress and to bridge the digital divide in Baltimore City.
A huge portion of all stored data in the world is medical images,
imagine high resolution 3 D medical images all on the web, this is the future of medicine.
A Google partnership with institutions like Johns Hopkins and the university
of Maryland Medical Center to expand fiber networks would advance life saving
and life enhancing medical technology.
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Baltimore is also an emerging national leader in biotechnology and life sciences innovation
with two growing biotechnology centers, the University of Maryland Biopark
and the East Baltimore Biotech Park.
It's all happening here.
Baltimore's home to major players in finance and energy like Mason, T. Rowe Price
and Constellation Energy are all Fortune 500 companies with increasing demand
for speed data networks to support their complex operations.
These are just some of Baltimore's unique assets.
Baltimore is an economic powerhouse in close proximity
to Washington D.C. We have a 133 billion dollar gross regional product.
I want to thank Google for inviting American cities to demonstrate our rich heritage,
our economies and spirit of ingenuity.
There's no doubt in my mind that Baltimore is the best city in America to invest
in new fiber internet infrastructure.
Baltimore is a City of Firsts and we should be Google's first choice,
thank you again for the opportunity to showcase Baltimore.
