Bill Coleman was pleased to accept the EDAM award for economic development initiative on behalf of the Blandin Foundation last week. (learn more)
The Blandin Foundation Broadband Initiative is a unique effort to stimulate the deployment of broadband networks and to increase the effective use of these networks as a means to enhance community vitality.
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Bill Coleman recently worked with the Blandin Foundation to present a Broadband Policy Seminar in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The seminar was held as a precursor to the Ultra High-Speed Broadband Task Force meeting, also held in Grand Rapids.
The seminar was well attended and received. Several of the participants went on to make public comments at [...]
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CTAC founder, Bill Colem and and the Dakota Future were recently in the Rosemount Town Pages. Bill is leading the county-wide economic development group in an effort to become one of the top seven Intelligent Communities in the world by 2012. The award promotes smart use of broadband technology.
Pursuing the award is a good way [...]
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This summer the Minnesota Ultra High-Speed Broadband Task Force will be on the road:
June 19 – Grand Rapids
July 17 – Mankato
August 21 – Fergus Falls
Also if you’re in or near one of these areas, on behalf of the Blandin Foundation, I’d like to invite you to attend an accompanying Broadband Policy Seminar. The seminars are [...]
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(as posted on Blandin on Broadband)
Broadband is in the news these days. Stimulus funding, the state broadband task force, municipal networks, new technologies are all topics for discussion – not just for techies anymore. Some skeptics are right to ask, “What’s the point?”
My answer is, “The point is to become more intelligent, as individuals, communities, [...]
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