[Advisors] Fwd: Understanding Community Broadband: The Alberta Broadband Toolkit

[Marita Moll]

Hello all.  This new community broadband toolkit from the University of 
Alberta might be of interest.

Marita

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From: *Michael McNally* <mmcnally at ualberta.ca <mailto:mmcnally at ualberta.ca>>
Date: Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:32 AM
Subject: [CCA-LIST] Understanding Community Broadband: The Alberta 
Broadband Toolkit
To: CCA-LIST at lists.mcgill.ca <mailto:CCA-LIST at lists.mcgill.ca>


Dear Colleagues,

For individuals or groups working in the areas of community, rural and 
remote broadband and community informatics or working with communities 
on broadband related matters, I wanted to pass along that a community 
broadband guide has recently been developed for use in communities 
across Alberta, though much of the information may be relevant in other 
jurisdictions.

/Understanding Community Broadband: The Alberta Broadband Toolkit /has 
been designed for use by Alberta communities to assist in developing 
broadband solutions. The toolkit is organized into three general 
sections - learning about broadband, thinking about broadband, and 
planning broadband. Together these sections aim to identify the key 
knowledge and actionable steps that a community and its leaders can use 
to develop and achieve local broadband solutions. The Toolkit is 
specifically written for a general audience so that community leaders 
and local broadband champions can become informed on basic broadband 
information and develop a knowledge base to both engage the public on 
broadband and deal with consultants.

The toolkit provides an overview broadband technologies, models of 
broadband ownership, importance of community engagement and best 
practices in local broadband planning.  The toolkit also contains case 
examples of broadband solutions from communities across the province. 
The Toolkit was made possible by funding from the Government of Alberta 
- Economic Development and Trade.
Understanding Community Broadband was developed in response to 
discussions at several Digital Future symposia held by the Van Horne 
Institute, with the aim of enabling communities to further local 
discussions about connectivity.  The toolkit was also informed by a 
series of eight consultative workshops held in partnership between the 
Government of Alberta's Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and 
the research team at the University of Alberta.

This Open Access Toolkit is housed at the Education & Research Archive 
at the University of Alberta and can be found here: 
https://doi.org/10.7939/R3H41JR36 <https://doi.org/10.7939/R3H41JR36>. 
Text is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License 
(CC-BY-4.0).
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Further questions or comments about the toolkit can be directed to: 
digicom at ualberta.ca <mailto:digicom at ualberta.ca>

Michael

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Michael B. McNally,
Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies,
3-03 Rutherford South, University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta CANADA T6G 2J4
mmcnally at ualberta.ca <mailto:mmcnally at ualberta.ca>
Phone: 780-492-3934 <tel:%28780%29%20492-3934>
Fax: 780-492-2430 <tel:%28780%29%20492-2430>
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