by Jason Harper | Mar 19, 2015 | Government Innovation
Kansas City’s “first skyscraper” was built in 1888 for a million dollars. The 12-story brownstone New York Life building today overlooks Baltimore St. between 9th and 10th streets downtown — a path well worn by the sneakers of schoolchildren on field trips to...
by Jason Harper | Mar 11, 2015 | Gigabit Ecosystem Building
Kansas City Teams Up with San Francisco, Chattanooga and Burlington for GIGHACKS, a 2-day Hackathon to Ignite the Gigabit Experience. A recent NPR story said using our current technology on a gigabit network is “like riding a bicycle on NASCAR track.” Here at KC...
by Jason Harper | Mar 11, 2015 | Global Roundtables
If you were there, you saw it. January 12 – 15, 2015: More than 200 innovators and visionaries from 50 communities converged on Kansas City for the inaugural Gigabit City Summit – North America. If you weren’t there, though, you can catch up with a...
by Aaron Deacon | Mar 11, 2015 | Fiber to the Community
Wow, well, that got political pretty quickly. The FCC made two notable rulings at the end of February regarding community broadband and net neutrality, and, depending on which side of the aisle you were on, you probably either rejoiced or wanted to rip the cables out...
by Bridget Koan | Mar 9, 2015 | Telehealth Pilot
KC Digital Drive’s third Digital Health Innovation Forum continued on the journey to highlight Kansas City health projects that utilize high-speed fiber-optic Internet. The Feb. 26 Forum at the Sprint Accelerator, “Reaching Into the Home,” addressed the themes of...
