Ten Simple Things Your Community Can Do
Ten simple, low fee or no fee projects and activities that can be done easily by any community that wants to be more "connected."
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We have over ninety years of combined staff experience with community telecom and Internet fiber and broadband planning, design, maintenance and management -- more than any other company in the United States. We offer a full range of broadband and Internet planning, design, and project management expertise and start-to-finish infrastructure services.
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Our handouts and magazine articles provide brief and concise discussions of various aspects of community-owned broadband topics of interest. Some of our most popular items are our "worst practice" articles written by our CEO, Andrew Cohill, in response to the number of questions he gets on "what is best practice?"
Ten simple, low fee or no fee projects and activities that can be done easily by any community that wants to be more "connected."
A description of how content and services can be used to increase demand for broadband. Important for communities on a budget, because fueling demand attracts private sector investment (meaning the community spends less). Useful primer on how to get started inexpensively and quickly with Open Source-based services.
A description of the five key kinds of infrastructure that are important to community networks and economic development.
Two case studies of communities that invested in broadband networks with very favorable results. An especially good handout for public meetings where not everyone may understand the value of community technology projects.
A brief description of the value and impact of community networks.
A summary of seven key principles for creating an economic development action plan focused on the changes brought about by the global Knowledge Economy
An overview of key areas of technology investment that have an immediate and direct impact on economic development strategies.
A simplified view of a network, from the user perspective. An excellent introduction to networks for people that feel uncomfortable discussing technology.
An overview of the qualities and characteristics needed by community leaders in the Knowledge Economy.
Developing a communitywide or regional broadband digital transport system follows a set of steps similar to the process used to construct a building or to develop a water or sewer project.
A set of five steps guides a set of parallel processes that ensure that telecom infrastructure invesments actually deliver measurable impacts to the community. During the master planning process, a planning framework is used to consider governance, business plans, network management, education and training, economic and entrepreneurship development, and service provider development.
Design Nine projects have included the award-winning nDanville municipal open network, The Wired Road open access network, New Hampshire FastRoads, Rockbridge Area Network Authority network, the City of Eagan, Minnesota open access network, and over two hundred other planning efforts for communities in more than twenty-two states, Canada, and the Caribbean. The senior leadership of Design Nine has extensive, hands-on experience designing and managing telecommunications and broadband systems.
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