Government Technology
Broadband Brings Varied Economic Impacts to Local Areas, States
Broadband companies can improve regional economic development, though positive effects vary depending on local and state contexts, said experts during a National Telecommunications and Information Administration webinar. Lauren Mathena, director of economic development and community engagement with the Mid-Atlantic Broadband Communities Corporation (MBC), spoke on how MBC allows Internet service providers to connect to its 1,900-mile fiber network in southern Virginia.
Digital Cities 2020: IT Foundation Key to COVID Response (Government Technology)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 11/10/2020 - 13:34Smart City Work Laid the Foundation for COVID Innovations (Government Technology)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 11/02/2020 - 10:42MIT Conference Weighs How to Make Tech More Equitable (Government Technology)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 10/22/2020 - 17:39CIOs on How to Reframe the Future With Emerging Tech (Government Technology)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 10/16/2020 - 12:04How Will the Latest Wi-Fi Tech Affect Local Areas?
Recently the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that the Federal Communications Commission doesn’t have to delay opening up the 6 Gigahertz spectrum band for unlicensed Wi-Fi. The court’s decision was in response to a request from public safety and utility organizations, as well as other groups such as AT&T, to grant a stay to the FCC order to open up the 6GHz band.
West Virginia Quickly Builds Statewide Network for Students
With its mountainous topography and sparsely populated areas, West Virginia understands this un-ideal reality as well as any state, so it created what some might call a Band-Aid solution: the Kids Connect Initiative, a unified education network with hundreds of Wi-Fi access points. The project started in early Aug, leaving little time for implementation before Sept 8, the first day of school in West Virginia. The concept was to allow any K-12 or college student the ability to use Wi-Fi from any access point within a network spread over the entire state.
Dan Lohrmann | Online Learning Still Struggles – Especially With Security (Government Technology)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 09/21/2020 - 11:00The Farms of the Future Hinge on High-Speed Internet
Farms could contribute billions more dollars to the US economy with the help of precision agriculture technology, but this can’t happen without more broadband, said experts during a National Telecommunications and Information Administration webinar. Titled “Smart Agriculture: Driving Innovation in Rural America,” the webinar featured, among other speakers, Megan Nelson, an economic analyst with the American Farm Bureau Federation.