Transcript 2008-2009 Building Communities Educational Series Focus on

CAN’s and UWEX’s BTOP
Application
Connecting Southwest Wisconsin
4-22-10
Why U.W. Extension?
Building Organizational Capacity
• It describes the work of the university’s extension
faculty in building some of the state (and nation’s)
great organizations and movements.
• “There is a formula to this history,” said Somersan. “It
has to do with the people involved in creating selfsustaining organizations and movements. They have all
been tops in their field, they all had a deep passion for
what they were doing. They had very strong bonds
with community leaders, partnered very well with
others, and were willing to do the grunt work it takes
to nurture organizations from birth to graduation.”
GRANeT 1995 (WICIP)
http://www.wicip.uwplatt.edu/index.html
Neenah Technology Workshop
Sponsored By:
•City of Neenah
•UW-Extension: Center for Community
& Economic Development
•Virchow, Krause & Company, LLP.
September 28, 2005
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Workshop Presenters
Professor Andrew B. Lewis
Community Development
Specialist
Center for Community
Economic Development
Thomas Asp, Partner,
Virchow, Krause &
Company, LLP.
608.240.2613
[email protected]
Tel: 608-263-1432
[email protected]
Bob Herbst,
Senior Manager, Virchow,
Krause & Company, LLP.
608.240.2497
[email protected]
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http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/economies/broadband/index.cfm
Community Indicators
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/economies/communityindicators/index.cfm
July 2006
The $7.2 Billion Dollar Solution??
Round 1
Round 1
Round 2
Less Than Half the Applications in
Round 2 for NTIA funding
http://www.telecompetitor.com/ntia-receives-fewer-applications-11b-in-funding-requests-for-round-2/
Chippewa Valley
Internetworking Consortium (CINC)
Mission
Through a coordinated regional
communication infrastructure, position
the Chippewa valley to be innovative,
competitive, and economically viable
for present and future generations.
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CAN’s As Part of the Solution:
• Facilitating solutions vs. competing with private sector business
• Filling gaps that private sector does not offer or can’t offer at
an economically feasible cost. (dark fiber & high speed and
highly engineered collaboration networks)
• Provides a common technology roadmap for the regional area
for current and future technology visions
• Enables regional area to keep and maintain a competitive edge
• Assists the public and private non-profit organizations in
determining current and future costs for technology.
• Provides a platform for more collaborative process
Charter Organizations: CINC
• City of Eau Claire
• Eau Claire County
• Eau Claire Area School
District
• L.E. Phillips Public Library
• CESA 10
Chippewa Falls School
District
• Chippewa Valley
Technical College
• UW-Eau Claire
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Demonstration Communities
Comprehensive Community
Infrastructure (CCI) & Sustainable
Broadband Adoption (SBA)
Building Community Capacity through
Broadband (BCCB)
CCI = $42.7 million ($29.9 request, $9.2 cash
match, $3.6 in-kind contribution)
SBA = $3.2 million ($2.4 request, $875,000
match)
Planned Broadband Leadership Development &
Educational Programming
Logic Model
Community Anchor Institutions (182)
Broadband funds stimulate
laments from companies…
Forbes magazine, 4/11/2010
“It is extremely unfair that the government
comes in and uses big government money to
harm existing private businesses”, says Gary
Shorman, president of Eagle Communications,
a Kansas cable company with about 16,000
customers.
Lawrence Strickling, Head of National
Telecommunications and Information
Administration
“It’s a little disappointing that companies that
aren’t adequately serving these areas are
trying to undercut those of us who are trying
to step in and get the service where it’s
needed.”
Many Existing Systems Lack the Capacity to
Meet Mushrooming Demand for
Bandwidth
The new stimulus funded networks will provide
far more robust connections – many with
speeds of up to 100 megabits or even 10
gigabits per second to schools, libraries and
other “anchor institutions.” That’s roughly 20
to 2,000 times faster than the DSL and cable
wires linking most American homes today.
Strickling argues that private companies could
benefit from the new government-funded
networks. These networks MUST BE open to
other carriers that want to lease bandwidth,
which could enable existing carriers to reach
new customers. The stimulus program was
designed not only to bring access to homes. It
also aims to ensure that hospitals, schools,
businesses, and other community institutions
have the ultra-fast connections needed for
cutting-edge applications.
Senator Bob Jauch, Joint Legislative
hearing on Information Policy and
Technology on March 17, 2010.
“Well, let me, I must be missing something, the
campuses you identified are already
connected under Badgernet. It isn’t that the
campuses are not connected. Badgernet
connects to those campuses. So what is it
that’s not, what is it, what is the gap in
connection to U.W. Superior?”
It’s No Longer About Being
“Connected”
• Anyone with a phone is “connected”
• Many of the connections that our public
institutions have, are nearly the equivalent of
dial up given the volume of data that needs to
be transmitted. AND…many of these
financially strapped public institutions can’t
afford the private sector rates for the services
they demand.
What is Broadband?
http://www.linktionary.com/b/bandwidth.html
Local Government Institute Report:
http://www.localgovinstitute.org/?q=node/92
A Roadmap for Government
Transformation
Key findings include:
·
Wisconsin has a history of successful intergovernmental
cooperation for service delivery where necessity, convenience or
regulation dictate. However there are further significant opportunities to
achieve efficiencies;
·
Reducing the units of government may not be as effective or practical
for reducing the cost of government as cooperation to consolidate
delivery of services and pool capital investments across a multijurisdictional service area;
·
Successfully changing the way in which services are delivered
within an area requires an approach that is unique to the local governments
involved. A “one-size-fits-all” approach will not work given the wide range of
local situations that exist across the state;
A Roadmap for Government
Transformation
Key findings include:
There are six factors that clearly contribute to the
success of efforts to transform the delivery of public
services within an area, notably:
• Trust between leaders
• Shared perception of need
• Clear fiscal benefit
• Improved service quality
• Collaborative leadership
• Community support
A Roadmap for Government
Transformation
Key findings include:
·
Wisconsin has a history of successful intergovernmental
cooperation for service delivery where necessity, convenience or
regulation dictate. However there are further significant opportunities to
achieve efficiencies;
·
Reducing the units of government may not be as effective or practical
for reducing the cost of government as cooperation to consolidate
delivery of services and pool capital investments across a multijurisdictional service area;
·
Successfully changing the way in which services are delivered
within an area requires an approach that is unique to the local governments
involved. A “one-size-fits-all” approach will not work given the wide range of
local situations that exist across the state;
Coordinate Fiber Runs With Public
Works Programs
Ninety-nine percent of the Internet's physical distance has
been strung with fiber already; just a minor hop, and home
and business users can have a fully fiber connection. The
obvious question is, why has fiber been rolled out in globespanning networks without any public discussion
whatsoever, while deploying fiber in the last mile is a huge
deal? The answer is two-fold: money, and natural
monopolies.
Source: Fiber-to-the-X: the economics of last-mile fiber, By Herman Wagter,
http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/03/fiber-its-not-all-created-equal.ars
FCC KICKS OFF UNIVERSAL SERVICE REFORM
4-21-2010
The Federal Communications Commission today took its first step toward
a once-in-a-generation transformation of the Universal Service Fund from
supporting networks providing plain old telephone service into an effective
and efficient tool for making affordable, high-quality broadband
communications service available to all Americans.
The National Broadband Plan that the Commission sent to Congress last
month identified the need for comprehensive universal service reform that
does not unnecessarily burden consumers. Today’s Notice of Inquiry (NOI)
and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) begin the hard work of
implementing the Plan’s recommendations, which include cutting
inefficiencies in existing support of voice services and creating a Connect
America Fund (CAF) that directly supports broadband without increasing
the size of the Universal Service Fund over the current baseline projection.
http://www.fcc.gov/
County Discussion Groups:
-Was there anything you learned today that needs to be pursued within our county?
-Were there any models or best practices that were learned today that could be
easily replicated in our county?
-Which institutions within our County would be most interested in the expansion of
broadband?
-Who do we need to be working with in order to advance the level of connectivity
within our County?
-How might the public sector work with the private sector to better serve the
community anchor institutions, businesses and residents?
Questions?
Professor Andy Lewis
Community Development Specialist
Center for Community and Economic
Development, 610 Langdon Street, Room
328, Madison, WI 53703-1104
Phone: (608) 263-1432
E-mail: [email protected]
Web:
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/andylewis.cfm
For a more comprehensive program on this topic, see program #2:
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/communities/ConferencePrograms200
910.cfm