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01:00Building the Gigabit City
Google Fiber is mighty nice, but they aren’t the only fish in the digital sea. Communities actually have many options for getting better, faster broadband, they just need to understand where and how to look. Building the Gigabit City, Craig Settles latest book, helps rural and urban communities:
1) navigate past the hype surrounding gigabit networks;
2) understand what super-fast access can and cannot do to improve communities;
3) conduct effective needs assessment; and
4) plan effective broadband strategy to leverage their options.
CEO Mark Ansboury of Gigabit Squared, Settles’ partner in this e-book project, joins the show to discuss several key issues the book addresses such as broadband’s impact on economic development. Ansboury and Settles also offer tips for consensus building to form partnerships between various stakeholders that move network projects forward.
Building the Gigabit City is Settles’ ninth book about developing strategies and tactics for using Internet, wireless and broadband technologies. This is his first e-book.
Tags: gigabit community broadband economic development highspeed infrastructure
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Austin, TX to Rock the Google Gigabit!
Is this the other shoe dropping that incumbents fear and advocates cheer? Austin is the second major city selected to receive Google fiber. Are we about to see a trickle turn into a cascade of inspired cities and towns answering the FCC’s Gigabit City Challenge?
Learn the secret to Austin's success. Two key leaders of Austin’s drive to snag the brass ring offer valuable insights. Austin Council Member Laura Morrison and Rondella Hawkins, Telcommunications and Regulatory Affairs Officer for the City of Austin, discuss how they planned and executed their campaign to bring Google to town.
Both officials have extensive experience implementing broadband projects in Austin beyond the Google effort, so they have a running start on the myriad of programs constituents can expect from the network. We discuss the potential education, economic development, digital inclusion and telemedicine goals that have stakeholders excited.
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Seattle Gets Gigabit Religion. Yowsah!
Seattle just announced a project to add "Gigabit Network" to the list of reasons you want to live and do business in their city. In partnership with Gigabit Squared, the city soon will have 12 neighborhoods with gigabit infrastructure delivering wired and wireless services. Seattle Acting CTO Erin Devoto and Ed Lazowska, Seattle's U. of Washington pointman on the project (Bill & Melinda Gates Chair at UW), explain the details of the deal and how they expect this project
Tags: seattle broadband gigabit squared strategy community broadband
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Ohio’s Gigabit City – Columbus Getting It Done.
Ironically, the nation’s excitement over muni wireless networks in 2006 set Columbus well ahead of most cities on the path to highspeed fiber networks. Columbus not only brings Ohio on line with meeting the FCC’s Gigabit City Challenge of at least one citywide gig network per state, it beat over 400 cities worldwide to become one of Intelligent Community Forums' 7 Intelligent Communities. Gary Cavin, Director & CIO of the city's Dept. of Technology, explains how the cit
Tags: columbus gigabit city challenge community strategy broadband
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Gigabit Innovation Rises from Chattanooga’s Testbed
It's Summer Camp for Geeks! 11 teams of innovators are competing in GigTank for $150,000 in prizes that will go to the two teams creating the best applications to capitalize on Chattanooga’s gigabit network. Today Gigabit Nation listeners get a sneak peek at what gig apps these teams are cooking up. Nicole Newman and Seth Bigham represent the student teams at GigTank. Anthony Guglielmo of Vigia and Toni Gamayel with Banyan represent the teams of established entrepreneurs. Without giv
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You Want Gigabit Cities? Here's How You Do That.
FCC Chairman Genachowski just announced an initiative to get a gigabit city in every state by 2015. Is this a meaningful policy objective or, as some critics claim, "empty rhetoric"? Five community broadband industry leaders tackle this question. More importantly, they detail the heavy lifting necessary to get a gig to every state. Jim Baller, President of Baller-Herbst Law Group, is a well-known telecom attorney and community broadband advocate who presents legal and policy issues
Tags: gigabit cities genachowski broadband community national
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Setting the Illinois Stage for Innovative Gigabit Apps
Chattanooga is not the only community executing a full court press to encourage and facilitate gigabit application development. Illinois is trying its hand at running contests to create the most awesome apps to run on the several networks being built throughout the state. Joining us is Drew Clark, Executive Director of the Partnership for a Connected Illinois. This non-profit collects and publishes broadband data, promotes higher-quality broadband access throughout the state and maximizes the
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Transforming Education in a Gigabit World
One of broadband's promised benefits is to dramatically change the process of educating children and adults. This broadcast explores how Kansas City can expect the new Google Fiber network to impact learning and knowledge retention while preparing students to live and work in the digital economy. Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Cynthia Lane joins us to discuss:
what KC should expect when local schools tap into a gigabit network; how broadband-based education apps alter or enhance teacher-student-parent interaction; outcomes when KC schools collaborate via broadband networks with schools nationwide or worldwide; and tactics communities can use to prevent a widening digital divide as gigabit networks advance education.
As KC and the Fiber to the Home Council begins its conference, "From Gigabit Envy to Gigabit Deployed," education is sure to be a hot topic. This interview with Dr. Lane is broadcasting live from the conference.
Tags: community broadband digital inclusion kansas city gigabit google fiber
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Are Libraries Good Beachheads for Gigabit Cities? Of Course.
Casting around for effective strategies to help meet (or exceed) the FCC’s Gigabit City Challenge, we wonder: how do we focus the myriad of broadband projects and stakeholders into one unified charge for better networks that produce great results? Libraries may be the answer. Springing from Kansas City’s Google Fiber project, the K-20 Librarians Initiative hopes to make libraries the hub of broadband buildout and adoption efforts. The Initiative bridges K-12 school, college, and un
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The Call Comes for Gigabit Cities. Will GA Legies Hang Up!?
A Georgia town used its city-run broadband net to help eliminate property taxes. Yet some state legislators are tying to eliminate communities' ability to create similar successes. Luckily, community net supporters refuse to cede the battle to forces outside or from within their state. Thomasville, GA Mayor Max Beverly joins us to provide a front-line report on their state legislature’s most recent attempt to keep local governments from running broadband networks. State House Bill 28
Tags: ALEC community broadband legislation gigabit city challenge
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Gigabit Wireless Speed: Fact, Not Fiction!
When it comes to speed, wireless advocates say this technology holds its own even in Kansas City where Google promises to deliver 1 gig connectivity. One home-grown Kansas City wireless ISP (WISP) is already delivering 2 gigabit services over a network with 10 gigabits of capacity. While the cellular industry promotes 12 Mbps speed and LTE as the future, CEO Graeme Gibson of Computers & Tele-com, Inc (CTC) explains in non-tech terms how WISPs use the latest wireless technologies to trump w
Tags: fixed wireless broadband rural unlicensed spectrum gigaom
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Can You Use $100,000? Tell Us What You'd Do with a Gigabit
Think you have the next killer gigabit app? The answer could net you $100,000. And while we're talking about it, our guest Scott Mize will discuss the investment potential of broadband networks and applications. Scott is an Advisor to Think Big Partners and proposed the idea of The Gigabit Challenge as a way to help jump-start the development of ultra-high-speed broadband applications for Kansas City's Google gigabit network (and others, of course). As venture development
Tags: kansas city broadband broadband strategy google gigabit network
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