Digitally Connected Community Guide

The University of Missouri (UM) System's Digitally Connected Community Guide is a collection of tools and resources that communities can use to become digitally connected. Communities that are digitally connected have access to affordable, reliable high-speed internet service and use internet-based technologies and applications to improve the health, education, and economic opportunities for everyone in the community. The Guide uses a five-step plan, informed by an online workshop, to bring high-speed internet to unserved Missouri communities. In addition, there is the Digitally Connected Community Guide Course, a Canvas-based series that consists of narrated lectures, targeted tools and supporting materials that community stakeholders can follow to produce a comprehensive proposal. The course is designed to help local governments, private businesses and nonprofits in digitally connecting their communities. To help communities navigate the course and five-step plan, Extension and campus-based faculty at UM System are available to provide course facilitation. Learn more here.