[Advisors] TC -- moving ahead in 2015

[Garth Graham]

> On Jan 25, 2015, at 9:27 PM, James Van Leeuwen <jvl at ventus.ca> wrote:
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> …..just better leadership… ….Leadership that smacks people up the sides of their heads... figuratively speaking.

Just as I said - dysfunctional and egomaniacal psychopaths - just kidding.


> What if TC were to focus on researching, defining, measuring and communicating the economic, social and environmental benefits of digital inclusion and community broadband?
> 
> Almost every analytic or metric I've seen has focused on "internal" cost/benefit of broadband development for facility owners and/or operators. 
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> I haven't seen anyone taking a systematic and comprehensive approach to assessing external economic, social and environmental costs and benefits, which is the real bone marrow of community broadband.

I am aware of an extensive literature on this - on two levels: national/regional and local.  But the problem is the underlying assumptions that structure the various models are usually different, unclear or ambiguous, making cross-comparison very difficult.  A state of the art review of the exiting literature from a community point of view would be a HUGE undertaking, but a useful starting point for developing an open cost-benefit analysis template.  I’ve sort of been wading around in that but am overwhelmed by the magnitude of the task.  I suspect there are some pretty good ones but that they are proprietary to consultants.

GG

> On Jan 25, 2015, at 4:18 PM, Garth Graham <garth.graham at telus.net> wrote:
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>> A quiet Sunday has given me an opportunity to muse on TC’s mandate.