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This is the last of a series of articles written by Marc Canter about digital cities and fiber networks.

In the first two parts of this series I defined what I meant when I use the term “Digital City” and the basic rights that every Digital Citizen has to a JOB! I talked about a sustainable model to drive these jobs and how by paying for multimedia encyclopedias – corporations could create a 3:1 usage of their money – and write…

Broadband speed tests are nothing new to many readers of this site. Most of us probably use Speedtest.net. But the fact that the FCC has posted a broadband test tool profiled prominently on the Broadband.gov website, shows how politically sensitive broadband — its presence and absence, its cost and speed — has become. It’s getting to be like electricity. If you don’t have it, you might as well be living on another planet.

The FCC’s tool lets you measure download and upload…

This is part 2 of a series written by Marc Canter about digital cities and fiber optic networks.

As the economic roller coaster ride over the past 20 years has taken us to new highs and lows, Cleveland and the Northern Ohio region have seen their economy flatline.  Once known as the home of innovation in America, Northern Ohio has turned into a poster child of the demise of our manufacturing base, as we exemplify what it means to have…

NTIA and RUS will grant a limited extension of time to file infrastructure applications in the second funding round. Specifically, applicants for BTOP Comprehensive Community Infrastructure projects will have until March 26th to file their applications to NTIA. Applicants for BIP infrastructure projects will have until March 29th to file their applications to RUS. Applications in NTIA’s two other project categories – Public Computer Centers and Sustainable Broadband Adoption – remain due on March 15th.

If your BTOP or BIP broadband stimulus grant application was rejected in Round 1, contact us now for help in getting your Round 2 application done. I’ve been getting a number of calls and emails from people who are in a panic, and I have helped them get up to speed with their Round 2 grant application.

The new deadlines is in less than 2 weeks (15 March 2010) are 26 March 2010 for BTOP Comprehensive Community Infrastructure Projects; 29 March 2010 for…

A lot has been made recently of 1G fiber optic connections being wired up into people’s homes.  Here in Cleveland the Case Connection Zone project will be conducting research on what exactly would someone DO with all this bandwidth?   1G connections will be placed into 104 homes and apartments on Hessler St. – and the class I’m teaching at CWRU will help provide the software to those residents.

In San Francisco the city is installing fiber into some public housing blocks, as…