Transcript South East Central Success Stories December 6, 2012 South East Central eTeam      11/6/2015 Team Effort Meet about quarterly Usually at Lakeland Look at high speed Internet access and adoption.

South East Central
Success Stories
December 6, 2012
South East Central eTeam
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Team Effort
Meet about quarterly
Usually at Lakeland
Look at high speed
Internet access and
adoption needs of
Region and how to
address
Input appreciated
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Adoption
Digital Divide Grant
Lakeland
College
Hutsonville Schools
Broadband Innovation Fund (BIF)
Newton
$15,000
Effingham $50,000
Mattoon $35,000
Charleston $32,668
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Out of the entire state, the region was awarded
$132,668 of the $500,000 total BIF grant. There
are 10 regions, so this region won a lion’s share.
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Adoption
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Numerous eTeam and committee
meetings were held this year.
Multiple county broadband informational
meetings were held.
Cellular One has offered both staff and
locations for community training.
A Lakeland training program was
customized and advertised for new
computer users. The eTeam helps to
market training.
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Adoption
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Broadband will be an educational topic at the
Farm Bureau meeting in January.
Lakeland College, the Farm Bureau, and eTeam
members are working on training plans for the
Coles County Farm Bureau in February.
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Adoption
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We are gathering training
opportunities
We are gathering computer access
locations
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Data
The providers of the region
and the eTeam have worked
hard to update the data
showing area access. The
eteam assisted in contacting
providers and verifying data.
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Access
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Frontier, Joink, Cellular One, and other providers
have service in several new locations and we have
assisted in getting the word out
Shiloh School was able to work with Metro
Communication to greatly improve their Internet
The community of Dieterich worked very hard for a
new Verizon Tower
Frontier is working on developments outside of
Paris, Illinois which we believe will reach Morecraft
Subdivision - A need that came up at an Edgar
County broadband meeting
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IRHN is working on a
plan to provide Lawrence
County Hospital double
their speed. A need
brought up in an eteam
meeting.
Flat Rock Telephone will
be upgrading their
services due to new
options for more
bandwidth
Two providers from our
region applied for Gigabit
Grants.
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Access
Working with the CCDA and the
Robinson Palestine Water District,
Joink was able to get access to a
water tower to provide wireless
Internet to a rural location
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Access
Sue Randle of Hutsonville
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Jeff Fryman of Beecher City
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Justin Smith of Effingham
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Ed Thomas of Robinson
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Roger and Tammy Liston of Annapolis
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Vicki May of Trimble
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Kristen Noblitt of West Union
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Barbara Webster,
Regional eTeam Coordinator
618-843-8433
[email protected]
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