Community Network Development Guide
A short (8 page) checklist style guide to the key activities needed to start and sustain community network projects, including infrastructure development.
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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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White Papers are by Andrew Cohill and Design Nine. These papers are typically 10-20 pages in length and explore a single topic in detail.
A short (8 page) checklist style guide to the key activities needed to start and sustain community network projects, including infrastructure development.
A discussion of the roles of community networks and their impact on communities, with special attention to social issues and the question of the digital divide.
A brief (two page) itemized description of the services that should be offered by community network efforts (including public and private offerings).
An extensive discussion of the long term implications of technology and its impact on the life of communities, with special attention to egovernance and community decisionmaking.
Written in 1999, this paper is still very relevant to any community technology project. The nine questions provide a framework for evaluating the impact of such projects.
A discussion of the importance of the "eCommunity" concept and how it can have an impact on community and economic development, especially in rural areas.
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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