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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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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
jurisdictions. </div>
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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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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><span
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
Alberta. </span><br>
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<div class="m_713107199643237597gmail-adL"
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Access Toolkit is housed at the Education &
Research Archive at the University of Alberta and
can be found here: </span><font color="#000000"><span
style="font-size:12.8px"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://doi.org/10.7939/R3H41JR36"
target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.7939/<wbr>R3H41JR36</a></span><span
style="font-size:12.8px">. Text is licensed under
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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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