The Open Technology Institute at New America recently released a paper to guide community planning of broadband projects. Entitled “Building Broadband Commons: Tools for Planners and Communities,” the paper gives an overview of different models communities can deploy to help provide fast, affordable, and reliable Internet to all their citizens, and suggestions for how government, […]
This past week, the Missouri Senate Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee voted in favor of Senate Bill 266, advancing the legislation closer to passage by the Senate. The bill would inhibit communities from developing high-quality gigabit Internet networks by barring any municipality from developing a network in an area currently served by a
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The Hagerstown City Council continued its discussion this week of fostering innovation and stimulating economic growth downtown through the expansion of broadband-fiber Internet availability in the city. The city received eight responses from implementation and consulting companies as the result of a January request for information. City officials discussed the project’s possible next steps during a council
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Join Chris and several other experts on municipal networks on April 25th as they address a crowd in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Yellow-Springs.Net, a group of residents who have rallied together to organize a movement to explore broadband as a utility in their community, will host the Fiber Forum. The event is titled “Building a Municipal
Yesterday, the White House announced the formation of a new Broadband Opportunity Council. This new forum of 25 federal agencies builds off the President’s proposed broadband policy agenda, unveiled in January in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and will be co-chaired by the Departments of Commerce and Agriculture. At Next Century Cities, we know that federal policy
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Two candidates for Champaign mayor say the traveling they did at taxpayer expense during 2014 brought back benefits that made them well worth the thousands of dollars they cost. The News-Gazette filed Freedom of Information Act requests for 2014 reimbursement records for the four candidates for Champaign mayor: Deb Frank Feinen, Karen Foster and Don
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This post by Bruce Patterson, Technology Services Director for the City of Ammon, Idaho, is written as part of our “Spotlight City” feature. For more information on Ammon, check out this case study and this video. A Resolution recognizing broadband as a ‘basic and essential service’ which could be cared for by a municipal utility was unanimously
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Next Century Cities is committed to helping lift up the stories of its partner communities and sharing their successes. To do that, Next Century Cities is proud to feature regular Spotlight Cities, a feature in which cities can share their experiences in bringing fast, reliable, and affordable broadband Internet to their citizens. Our latest Spotlight City is
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Local organization Springs-Net, which is working toward bringing a municipal broadband network to Yellow Springs, will present a forum, “Building a Municipal Fiber Network in Yellow Springs,” on Saturday, April 25, 9 a.m.–1 p.m., at the Miami Valley Educational Computer Association. The forum will provide community members with insights on the advantages of having a
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Society has entered a time in which technology enables us to be constantly connected, not only with one another, but also to devices and platforms. But we want faster ways to access and share information. Current connections aren’t enough yet. Gigabit networks are emerging as a transformative technology that provides rich connectivity and opens up
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