can’s and uwex’s btop application connecting southwest wisconsin 4-22-10
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CAN’s and UWEX’s BTOP Application
Connecting Southwest Wisconsin4-22-10
Why U.W. Extension?
Building Organizational Capacity
• It describes the work of the university’s extension faculty in building some of the state (and nation’s) great organizations and movements.
• “There is a formula to this history,” said Somersan. “It has to do with the people involved in creating self-sustaining organizations and movements. They have all been tops in their field, they all had a deep passion for what they were doing. They had very strong bonds with community leaders, partnered very well with others, and were willing to do the grunt work it takes to nurture organizations from birth to graduation.”
GRANeT 1995 (WICIP)http://www.wicip.uwplatt.edu/index.html
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Neenah Technology Workshop
Sponsored By:•City of Neenah•UW-Extension: Center for Community & Economic Development•Virchow, Krause & Company, LLP.
September 28, 2005
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Professor Andrew B. LewisCommunity Development
SpecialistCenter for Community Economic Development
Tel: 608-263-1432
Thomas Asp, Partner, Virchow, Krause & Company, LLP.
Workshop Presenters
Bob Herbst,Senior Manager, Virchow, Krause & Company, LLP.
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/economies/broadband/index.cfm
Community Indicatorshttp://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/economies/communityindicators/index.cfm
July 2006
The $7.2 Billion Dollar Solution??
Round 1
Round 1
Round 2
Less Than Half the Applications in Round 2 for NTIA funding
http://www.telecompetitor.com/ntia-receives-fewer-applications-11b-in-funding-requests-for-round-2/
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Chippewa ValleyInternetworking Consortium (CINC)
MissionThrough a coordinated regional communication infrastructure, position the Chippewa valley to be innovative, competitive, and economically viable for present and future generations.
CAN’s As Part of the Solution:• Facilitating solutions vs. competing with private sector
business• Filling gaps that private sector does not offer or can’t offer at
an economically feasible cost. (dark fiber & high speed and highly engineered collaboration networks)
• Provides a common technology roadmap for the regional area for current and future technology visions
• Enables regional area to keep and maintain a competitive edge• Assists the public and private non-profit organizations in
determining current and future costs for technology.• Provides a platform for more collaborative process
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Charter Organizations: CINC
• City of Eau Claire• Eau Claire County• Eau Claire Area School
District • L.E. Phillips Public Library
• CESA 10Chippewa Falls School District
• Chippewa Valley Technical College
• UW-Eau Claire
Demonstration Communities
Comprehensive Community Infrastructure (CCI) & Sustainable
Broadband Adoption (SBA)Building Community Capacity through
Broadband (BCCB)
CCI = $42.7 million ($29.9 request, $9.2 cash match, $3.6 in-kind contribution)
SBA = $3.2 million ($2.4 request, $875,000 match)
Planned Broadband Leadership Development & Educational Programming
Logic Model
Community Anchor Institutions (182)
Broadband funds stimulate laments from companies…
Forbes magazine, 4/11/2010
“It is extremely unfair that the government comes in and uses big government money to harm existing private businesses”, says Gary Shorman, president of Eagle Communications, a Kansas cable company with about 16,000 customers.
Lawrence Strickling, Head of National Telecommunications and Information
Administration“It’s a little disappointing that companies that
aren’t adequately serving these areas are trying to undercut those of us who are trying to step in and get the service where it’s needed.”
Many Existing Systems Lack the Capacity to Meet Mushrooming Demand for
Bandwidth
The new stimulus funded networks will provide far more robust connections – many with speeds of up to 100 megabits or even 10 gigabits per second to schools, libraries and other “anchor institutions.” That’s roughly 20 to 2,000 times faster than the DSL and cable wires linking most American homes today.
Strickling argues that private companies could benefit from the new government-funded networks. These networks MUST BE open to other carriers that want to lease bandwidth, which could enable existing carriers to reach new customers. The stimulus program was designed not only to bring access to homes. It also aims to ensure that hospitals, schools, businesses, and other community institutions have the ultra-fast connections needed for cutting-edge applications.
Senator Bob Jauch, Joint Legislative hearing on Information Policy and
Technology on March 17, 2010.“Well, let me, I must be missing something, the
campuses you identified are already connected under Badgernet. It isn’t that the campuses are not connected. Badgernet connects to those campuses. So what is it that’s not, what is it, what is the gap in connection to U.W. Superior?”
It’s No Longer About Being “Connected”
• Anyone with a phone is “connected”• Many of the connections that our public
institutions have, are nearly the equivalent of dial up given the volume of data that needs to be transmitted. AND…many of these financially strapped public institutions can’t afford the private sector rates for the services they demand.
What is Broadband?
http://www.linktionary.com/b/bandwidth.html
Local Government Institute Report: http://www.localgovinstitute.org/?q=node/92
A Roadmap for Government Transformation
Key findings include:· Wisconsin has a history of successful intergovernmental cooperation for service delivery where necessity, convenience or regulation dictate. However there are further significant opportunities to achieve efficiencies;· Reducing the units of government may not be as effective or practical for reducing the cost of government as cooperation to consolidate delivery of services and pool capital investments across a multi-jurisdictional service area;· Successfully changing the way in which services are delivered within an area requires an approach that is unique to the local governments involved. A “one-size-fits-all” approach will not work given the wide range of local situations that exist across the state;
A Roadmap for Government Transformation
Key findings include:
There are six factors that clearly contribute to the success of efforts to transform the delivery of public services within an area, notably:• Trust between leaders • Shared perception of need • Clear fiscal benefit • Improved service quality • Collaborative leadership • Community support
A Roadmap for Government Transformation
Key findings include:· Wisconsin has a history of successful intergovernmental cooperation for service delivery where necessity, convenience or regulation dictate. However there are further significant opportunities to achieve efficiencies;· Reducing the units of government may not be as effective or practical for reducing the cost of government as cooperation to consolidate delivery of services and pool capital investments across a multi-jurisdictional service area;· Successfully changing the way in which services are delivered within an area requires an approach that is unique to the local governments involved. A “one-size-fits-all” approach will not work given the wide range of local situations that exist across the state;
Coordinate Fiber Runs With Public Works Programs
Ninety-nine percent of the Internet's physical distance has been strung with fiber already; just a minor hop, and home and business users can have a fully fiber connection. The obvious question is, why has fiber been rolled out in globe-spanning networks without any public discussion whatsoever, while deploying fiber in the last mile is a huge deal? The answer is two-fold: money, and natural monopolies.
Source: Fiber-to-the-X: the economics of last-mile fiber, By Herman Wagter, http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/03/fiber-its-not-all-created-equal.ars
FCC KICKS OFF UNIVERSAL SERVICE REFORM
4-21-2010The Federal Communications Commission today took its first step toward a once-in-a-generation transformation of the Universal Service Fund from supporting networks providing plain old telephone service into an effective and efficient tool for making affordable, high-quality broadband communications service available to all Americans. The National Broadband Plan that the Commission sent to Congress last month identified the need for comprehensive universal service reform that does not unnecessarily burden consumers. Today’s Notice of Inquiry (NOI) and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) begin the hard work of implementing the Plan’s recommendations, which include cutting inefficiencies in existing support of voice services and creating a Connect America Fund (CAF) that directly supports broadband without increasing the size of the Universal Service Fund over the current baseline projection.http://www.fcc.gov/
County Discussion Groups:
-Was there anything you learned today that needs to be pursued within our county?
-Were there any models or best practices that were learned today that could be easily replicated in our county?
-Which institutions within our County would be most interested in the expansion of broadband?
-Who do we need to be working with in order to advance the level of connectivity within our County?
-How might the public sector work with the private sector to better serve the community anchor institutions, businesses and residents?
Questions?
Professor Andy Lewis Community Development Specialist
Center for Community and Economic Development, 610 Langdon Street, Room
328, Madison, WI 53703-1104
Phone: (608) 263-1432 E-mail: [email protected]
Web:http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/andylewis.cfm
For a more comprehensive program on this topic, see program #2: http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/communities/ConferencePrograms200910.cfm