They need to help with education and training, help with funding and infrastructure and job placement. There are some exciting programs around. Programs that work. It was founded by Mark Warner, the successful telecommunications entrepreneur who ran for the U.S. Senate in Virginia. Mark brought together Virginia's historically black colleges and universities with the high-tech community.
Students get summer internship programs and job experience.
The schools get help with curriculum and with both hardware and software. That's not the only one. The Foundation for Minorities in Media is another one. It's a program run by broadcasters to identify and train students to become players in the new worlds of media. The big debate in ownership today is about consolidation.