The U.S. Department of Agriculture was asked to be more flexible on ReConnect, during a virtual listening session Tuesday. Consider changing more program loans to grants, said Yurok Tribe Council member Lana McCovey. "The repayment process would be hard to do." Akiak Technology CEO Kevin Hamer agreed: "The only way that we're going to get access as an unserved area is through infrastructure grants, not loans." Exclude low earth orbit satellites, Hamer said. Aleut Community of St. Paul Island Tribal Government Project Manager Dylan Conduzzi asked for reconsideration of satellite technology: "There are no other back-haul options available to us." Allow more flexibility in the grant application process, said Raymond Concho, Acoma Pueblo transportation planner. "We just don't have the matching funds, especially after the past year." Guiding principles from tribal leaders in recent months included requiring tribal government resolutions of support for broadband applicants, increasing flexibility for applicants, enabling tribal governments to serve their own lands, allowing tribes to certify whether they're served or underserved, and requiring compliance with tribal government regulations for all broadband recipients serving tribal lands, USDA staff said. Comments on eligibility requirements are due April 27 (see 2102260044).
Former U.S. negotiators for the Environmental Goods Agreement at the World Trade Organization say the collapse of talks in 2016 means trying again with the countries that are major players in solar panels, wind turbines and the like is not likely to be productive this year. Mark Linscott, former assistant U.S. trade representative at the WTO, said he thinks even getting the fisheries subsidies deal done in Geneva this year is “dicey.” He recalled that it seemed promising when a plurilateral approach was taken on EGA, and China, when it was in the rotating chair at the G-20 group of nations, it pushed for a ministerial statement on the EGA that said it had found a landing zone, and the countries would “aim to conclude ... an ambitious, future-oriented EGA that that seeks to eliminate tariffs on a broad range of environmental goods by an EGA Ministerial meeting to be held by the end of 2016.”
The Section 301 tariffs on Chinese goods imposed under President Donald Trump had “a significant impact” on Panasonic North America, Jeff Werner, vice president-corporate and government affairs, told CTA’s virtual Innovation Policy Summit Wednesday. “We did everything we could to sort of mitigate that, including a robust use of the exclusions process,” he said.
The Section 301 tariffs on Chinese goods imposed under President Donald Trump had “a significant impact” on Panasonic North America, Jeff Werner, vice president-corporate and government affairs, told the Consumer Technology Association virtual Innovation Policy Summit April 14. “We did everything we could to sort of mitigate that, including a robust use of the exclusions process,” he said.
Satisfaction runs high among U.S. adults who participated in at least one telehealth visit during the pandemic between March 2020 and Jan. 30, said a COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition survey published Tuesday. The group canvassed 2,000 patients December through February, finding that 79% of respondents were happy with their telehealth visits and 73% expected to continue to receive healthcare services virtually beyond the pandemic, it said. “It’s really encouraging to see that the high satisfaction scores are consistent across age ranges, insurance type, and regardless of whether the patient lives in an urban, suburban, or rural location,” said Steve Ommen, medical director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Connected Care, who supervised the study. “Years from now, we will point to 2020 as the year that the potential of digital care delivery became a reality.”
Satisfaction runs high among U.S. adults who participated in at least one telehealth visit during the pandemic between March 2020 and Jan. 30, said a COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition survey published Tuesday. The group canvassed 2,000 patients December through February, finding that 79% of respondents were happy with their telehealth visits and 73% expected to continue to receive healthcare services virtually beyond the pandemic, it said. “It’s really encouraging to see that the high satisfaction scores are consistent across age ranges, insurance type, and regardless of whether the patient lives in an urban, suburban, or rural location,” said Steve Ommen, medical director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Connected Care, who supervised the study. “Years from now, we will point to 2020 as the year that the potential of digital care delivery became a reality.”
Satisfaction runs high among U.S. adults who participated in at least one telehealth visit during the pandemic between March 2020 and Jan. 30, said a COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition survey published Tuesday. The group canvassed 2,000 patients December through February, finding that 79% of respondents were happy with their telehealth visits and 73% expected to continue to receive healthcare services virtually beyond the pandemic, it said. “It’s really encouraging to see that the high satisfaction scores are consistent across age ranges, insurance type, and regardless of whether the patient lives in an urban, suburban, or rural location,” said Steve Ommen, medical director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Connected Care, who supervised the study. “Years from now, we will point to 2020 as the year that the potential of digital care delivery became a reality.”
FuboTV bought exclusive livestreaming rights for English and Spanish commentary to the South American Football Confederation’s Qatar World Cup 2022 qualifying matches, it said Thursday. Rights include the remaining 70 matches, scheduled to begin in June; additional match windows are scheduled through 2021 and into 2022, it said. Re-air and highlight rights are included.
FuboTV bought exclusive livestreaming rights for English and Spanish commentary to the South American Football Confederation’s Qatar World Cup 2022 qualifying matches, it said Thursday. Rights include the remaining 70 matches, scheduled to begin in June; additional match windows are scheduled through 2021 and into 2022, it said. Re-air and highlight rights are included.
FuboTV bought exclusive livestreaming rights for English and Spanish commentary to the South American Football Confederation’s Qatar World Cup 2022 qualifying matches, it said Thursday. Rights include the remaining 70 matches, scheduled to begin in June; additional match windows are scheduled through 2021 and into 2022, it said. Re-air and highlight rights are included.