As director of TRC, Gene is working to ensure that Net access reaches rural Texans in a meaningful way. TRC, the state's Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund, and emerging community networks (such as Austin Free-Net) are putting Texas way ahead of the rest of the nation in supporting widespread local Net development and universal access to Internet technology. The Internet made us think globally; community networks are teaching us to act locally with network technology, closing the digital divide between the information haves and have-nots.
