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- Bring K-12, community colleges, universities, libraries, museums, and cultural centers into appropriate regional, national, and international advanced networking efforts, via the "Sponsored Education Group Participant" (SEGP) process.
- Serve as a convener and catalyst, helping to encourage and sustain partnerships among these education institutions, the private sector, and government
- Enhance teaching and learning by facilitating projects that explore the ways in which advanced network applications, services, tools, and digital content can extend access to education and educational resources
- Develop mechanisms for timely communication across all educational sectors and regions in order to enable quick, pervasive technology diffusion.
- Work with government agencies to ensure the appropriate policies and regulations are in place that allow K20 institutions the flexibility to choose the cost effective broadband options and the ability to shape their own IT futures.
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Why We Do It
Many in the Internet2 community believe that an important lesson learned from previous networking and technology experiences (e.g., World Wide Web) is that big payoffs come from getting tomorrow's technologies into the hands of as many innovators and sectors as quickly and as "connectedly" as possible. This time, with the Internet2 K20 Initiative, it seems possible to bring in the broader education community much closer to launch by inviting innovators across the educational spectrum to engage in initiatives involving Internet2 technologies - without over-promising, overextending, or losing focus on its advanced technology missions.