Prior experience assures us that the most help by far will be provided by word of mouth, once a minimum set of routine users are established in each community. Some examples may illustrate the unique network offerings and what would occur if the citizens did not have a network in place. An unique offering the data superhighway can provide is for students in small communities. These communities have difficulty in attracting teachers better prepared to teach modern courses and would normally have to do without. But, with a net work in place they can get live interactive instruction just like any child at any of the wealthiest suburban public schools.
Networks can provide access to remote specialists and experts in their respective fields.
The system provides free on -line access to the main database and allows an inventor or somebody researching an idea to see who's basing their technology on yours, who's working in a similar area or very similar area, or who might be infringing. Arizona inventors can now quickly file patent applications by computer. A job seeker simply views on-line the job announcements and finds one of interest and sends his application and resume to the employer electronically . Instead of a job seeker having to call many job hot lines and driving to all the human resources departments to get an updated weekly list of all federal, state, and local government jobs, it is available twenty fours hours a day via the network. To take advantage of some of these unique offerings, some states have passed legislative bills and state appropriations to construct a state network.