Defining Your Community

Public broadband networks can encompass a few blocks, a neighborhood, a city, multiple towns or cities, portions of or a complete county, or an entire rural region. Some entities like an electric cooperative may be legally or politically bound by a defined service area. A city government may decide that the easiest and clearest pathContinue reading “Defining Your Community”

Public Broadband Pathways

Role of Community Leadership Community broadband leadership can emerge from the top down—by either elected officials or top-level administrators—identifying community broadband as either a proactive strategy for economic and community development or a reaction to community complaints—or from the bottom up—with organized efforts by community activists advocating for better broadband networks. In either case, communityContinue reading “Public Broadband Pathways”