Today’s San Francisco Chronicle features an op-ed from Ram Shriram, founder and managing partner of Sherpalo Ventures, on where the FCC’s forthcoming national broadband plan recommendations should be focused. Shriram says the plan should focus on three key areas: Set a national goal to make high-speed Internet access universal; connect every public library, school, hospital and public housing facility and expand wireless access:

With the United States facing tremendous economic challenges, the Internet and technology offer great opportunities - but it all hinges on whether we can deploy a communications infrastructure that can handle the demands of the 21st century.

Access to broadband will be just as vital to economic growth as the interstate highway system and the electric grid were to growth in the previous century. As Washington debates how to grow the economy, the most important link to creating more jobs may be the one that's connected to our routers.

You can read the full piece here.