Mar 31, 2015 | Blog Entry, News
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...
Mar 26, 2015 | Blog Entry, News
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...
Mar 26, 2015 | NCC News, News
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...
Mar 25, 2015 | NCC News, News
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,...
Mar 24, 2015 | Blog Entry, News
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...
Mar 23, 2015 | NCC News, News
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...
Mar 20, 2015 | Blog Entry, News, Spotlight City
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...
Mar 19, 2015 | Blog Entry, News, Spotlight City
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...
Mar 17, 2015 | NCC News, News
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...
Mar 17, 2015 | NCC News, News
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...
Mar 16, 2015 | Blog Entry, News
This post was written by Susanna T. of Leverett, MA. While my neighbors in central Massachusetts were sitting on the edge of their seats during the Super Bowl last month, I was sitting on the edge of my seat…waiting for my email to download. In our small town of...
Mar 14, 2015 | NCC News, News
Santa Cruz Mayor Don Lane announced earlier this week that the City of Santa Cruz has joined Next Century Cities, a bipartisan, city-to-city initiative dedicated to ensuring the availability of next-generation broadband Internet for all communities…
