by Jason Harper | Dec 2, 2014 | Computers in the Home
Kansas City digital inclusion nonprofit Connecting for Good has just launched a program that will make it even easier for families across the digital divide to get online. Through partnerships with two national digital inclusion nonprofits, Connecting for Good has...
by Jason Harper | Nov 5, 2014 | Global Roundtables
When we started to ask two years ago what our success metrics should be for the gigabit fiber rollout in Kansas City, I was looking for a number of households—how many gigabit homes should be a marker of a successful experiment? A conversation with Blair Levin, author...
by Jason Harper | Nov 5, 2014 | Fiber to the Community
A study conducted in the summer of 2014 by KC Digital Drive in partnership with the Kansas City EDC’s LaunchKC initiative revealed that gigabit access for tenants is not currently available at most local coworking and startup incubator spaces. The high cost for the...
by Jason Harper | Oct 20, 2014 | Community Education and Awareness
This past Friday, Oct. 17, at the Kansas City Public Library, everyone who came in through the big, vaulted doors to Kirk Hall was encouraged to disconnect. To shut down their devices — or put them in airplane mode — and experience the lack of a...
by Jason Harper | Oct 15, 2014 | Global Roundtables
Ultrafast internet will change the way cities work, making towns smarter, faster, and ultimately better places to live. It’s already demonstrating a measurable impact on GDP. While 143 U.S. communities have gigabit access, most of these cities lack metro-wide...
