Wide and appropriate use of technology in homes, schools, business, and local government to perform everyday tasks. Connected citizens and civic groups engaging the community and bringing people closer together. Careful attention to community planning and economic development issues with the goal of maintaining a prosperous and high quality of life for all residents. People use the network to communicate with other people. The network exists to help people communicate better.
Content is the knowledge and information created by people.
Content could be a Web page containing the text of a bill passed recently by the legislature, it could be an email, it could be a university professor teaching a class via the Internet to dozens of students located around the state. Services are the way content is delivered. The World Wide Web is a service that uses the Internet. Email is another service. Videoconferencing is a service.