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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.
Does this Gigabit-Wired Building Hint at a New Model for Phone and Internet Delivery?
Could telco providers use the gigabit infrastructure to develop new product lines? Could building owners and developers use the gig to pilot entirely new residential/retail VoIP services to their tenants? A quiet little story involving Kansas City-based provider Avid and a building in the Crossroads points to both of those things being possible.
Innovators Gather for Inaugural Digital Health Forum
A crowd of 50 health care innovators from Kansas City and guests from the Midwest Health Informatics & Telemedicine Conference gathered on Aug. 20 at Sprint Accelerator for KC Digital Drive’s first Digital Health Innovation Forum. The use of technology to improve patient care and launch business ventures is not unique. But today’s entrepreneurs are […]
The UMKC-developed App WiFi-Honk! Could Save Your Life
A new smartphone app in the works at UMKC’s Computer Science School uses wi-fi signals to warn pedestrians when a car is coming dangerously close.