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Reading List
Paving our
Electronic Dirt Roads: A
Call to Action (PDF file) by Miles Fidelman from New
Rules magazine discusses
community strategies for improving access to broadband
services.
Rural Telecommunications: Why
Your Community Isn’t Connected and What You Can Do About it by
Thomas Rowley explores community strategies.
Blacksburg
Electronic Village Digital Library
contains an interesting collection of articles and
reports.
Getting
Online: A Guide to the Internet for Small Town Leaders, produced by the National Center for Small Communities, is
a useful resource. Chapter
5: Attracting High-Speed Telecommunications Services
includes several examples of communities which have secured high speed
telecommunications services.
Bringing
the Internet to the Masses by Andy Oram from Webreview.com
highlights three successful efforts to accelerate the deployment of
affordable broadband services through aggregation of demand.
Deployment
of Advanced Telecommunications Capability: Second Report (PDF
file), report from the FCC, includes case studies of four communities, including two Midwestern
towns: Miller, South Dakota and Muscatine, Iowa. The report also
identifies a number of best practices, including demand aggregation,
anchor tenancy, and strategic planning.
If you would like to suggest an
addition to the reading list, please e-mail abyers@notes.state.ne.us
08/28/2001
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