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Technology advocates discussed collaboration, access at Digital Health Innovation Forum
Collaboration was the theme of KC Digital Drive’s Dec. 4 Digital Health Innovation Forum. At this second event in an ongoing, quarterly series, around 40 participants interested in digital health and innovation gathered at the Sprint Accelerator in Kansas City, Missouri, to share ideas for improving health care.
Living the Gig: Yet Another Provider Opens Up Gigabit Service in Kansas City
Consolidated Communications urges Kansas Citians to “Live the Gig” with its $69.95 fiber-to-the-home offering.
Connecting for Good Adds Data-Enabled Devices to Its Arsenal
With pay-as-you-go plans for connected devices, Connecting for Good gives Kansas City families the Internet on the go.
Kansas City Looks to the Connected Future with Next Century Cities
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 of the National Broadband Plan, added another dimension […]
Announcing Gigaspots: Bringing Gigabit Access to Area Entrepreneurs
KC Digital Drive conducts a study and launches a program to address the “gigabit gap” in local coworking and incubator spaces.
Digital Inclusion Summit Raises Questions of Access for a Whole Community
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 technological tether for one whole day. No, it wasn’t […]
Announcing the 2015 Gigabit City Summit – North America, Jan. 13-15 in Kansas City
Conference organized by KC Digital Drive aims to help city officials develop technology plans to maximize economic and social impact.
Digital Storytelling Is on the Way to Becoming Big Business in KC
With 34,000 digital storytellers living and working in KC, the industry already has a foothold. DigiSTORYCenter’s Ron Green wants to make it even bigger and better for the community.
Will Free Gigabit Lure KC Startups Northward?
North Kansas City is a part of the metro that has been somewhat silent in recent discussions of gigabit Internet in the region. But the whole city is about to get a free gig to its churches, public institutions — and even homes and businesses.
Connected Learning is Reshaping American K-12 Education
The concept of “connected learning” could bring about the change American K-12 education needs. It will take lots of bandwidth to execute, both technical and human.