{"id":653332,"date":"2013-04-18T15:13:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T19:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blandinonbroadband.org\/?p=8510"},"modified":"2013-04-18T15:13:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T19:13:06","slug":"broadband-communities-summit-in-dallas-day-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/653332","title":{"rendered":"Broadband Communities Summit in Dallas: Day Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bill_Coleman\"<\/a>More news from the Broadband Communities Summit in Dallas<\/a>.\u00a0 Some very interesting stuff from the economic development track.<\/p>\n

Michael Renders is the expert on FTTH\u00a0and broadband survey research .\u00a0 He had some very interesting findings about the value of broadband and its impact on economic development.\u00a0 He estimates that a FTTH network brings $1600 per house\/business passed per year in increased economic activity to a community.\u00a0 He also estimates that people will pay up to $5500 more for a house that is connected to a FTTH network than a similar house without such a connection.<\/p>\n

Jane Patterson, former leader of broadband development in North Carolina said that 31% of rural North Carolinians made money off their network connection through home businesses and that another 14% are planning to start home businesses.<\/p>\n

SNG’s\u00a0Michael Curri<\/a>\u00a0talked about how doing business technology assessments provides great base\u00a0data as well as a pathway for direct business assistance to increase business vitality.\u00a0 (Michael Curri did a webinar for Blandin Foundation<\/a> within the last year.)<\/p>\n

Christopher Mitchell<\/a> provided a great list of success stories of how communities have spurred business growth by meeting local business’ bandwidth needs.\u00a0 He highlighted the variety of approaches that these communities have used, some community-wide, some business only.<\/p>\n

Heather Gold, FTTH Council president, demonstrated their new FTTH Community ToolKit<\/a>.\u00a0 It looks like a great tool!\u00a0 Check it out.<\/p>\n

Greg Richardson of Civitium talked about his new concept – Crowdfiber<\/a>.\u00a0 Essentially, this is using the Kickstarter\u00a0model tied to the concept of Google Fiber.\u00a0 It combines the tools of social networks with the many online payment networks with the goal of raising funds to create fiberhoods, ala Google.\u00a0 Look at www.crowdfiber.com<\/a><\/span> or follow him at @crowdfiber<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Andrew Cohill of Design Nine <\/a>helps communities take control of their future.\u00a0 He believes that money is not the determinant factor. He says that there is plenty of money for broadband – cities and counties spend tons of money on all kinds of things with little thought and that plenty of money is spent on broadband in every community every month – the goal is to capture this money for locally owned and controlled projects.<\/p>\n

Cohill believes that communities need to do the hard work of answering this question: What do we want our community to look like in 20 years?\u00a0 Vision drives the process and the results.\u00a0 Generally, this vision is similar between communities – new jobs, keep their kids,\u00a0 new businesses. The problem comes when people want these new results, but don’t want anything else to change!<\/p>\n

In response to my question about examples of incumbents willingly partnering with communities, there were no great examples; the only examples were providers late to the initiative as an attempt to save some of their market share.<\/p>\n

One interesting concept was the Reverse RFI: in essence, offering public assets like poles, right of way, fiber conduit, etc. available up for use by providers.\u00a0 The Reverse RFI is an opportunity to make better use of these public assets for better broadband.<\/p>\n

This was one session of a very interesting day!<\/p>\n

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