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    Hello all.  This new community broadband toolkit from the University
    of Alberta might be of interest.<br>
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    Marita<br>
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            <div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael
                McNally</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a
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              Date: Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:32 AM<br>
              Subject: [CCA-LIST] Understanding Community Broadband: The
              Alberta Broadband Toolkit<br>
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                      <div style="font-size:12.8px">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
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                      <div style="font-size:12.8px"><i>Understanding
                          Community Broadband: The Alberta Broadband
                          Toolkit </i>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.</div>
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                      <div><span style="font-size:12.8px">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. </span></div>
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                              style="font-size:12.8px">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
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                    class="m_713107199643237597gmail-im">This Open
                    Access Toolkit is housed at the Education &
                    Research Archive at the University of Alberta and
                    can be found here: </span><font color="#000000"><span
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                        href="https://doi.org/10.7939/R3H41JR36"
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                    style="font-size:12.8px">Further questions or
                    comments about the toolkit can be directed to: <a
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                        <div>Michael B. McNally,<br>
                          Assistant Professor, School of Library and
                          Information Studies, <br>
                          3-03 Rutherford South, University of Alberta<br>
                          Edmonton, Alberta CANADA T6G 2J4<br>
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                          Fax: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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