Advanced Resources
The Resource Center develops, houses, and references a collection of FAQs, tools, kits, templates, studies, research results, best practices and other materials to help you in your journey towards creating a sustainable connected community.
Please browse the topics below and be sure to check back frequently as new content will appear often. If there are topics or research you’d like us to include, please send us your suggestions.
A set of answers to frequently asked questions concerning universal access, connected communities, wireless projects, and broadband.
Documents and links that provide basic definitions, statistics, forecasts, and economics regarding broadband, community broadband, digital inclusion, universal access, and the main topics inherent in these discourses.
Documents and links that provide best practices, working examples, contracts, suggestions, and contacts for business, financial, and governance models employed in universal access projects of all types.
Documents and links that provide news, research, blogs, and reviews on the network types and services, hardware and devices, and applications and software that power community broadband projects.
Program Areas/Drivers
Documents and links that provide research, thought leadership, best practices, working examples, documented results, historic perspectives, current issues, and news on the wide variety of programs that drive community broadband projects.
-Digital Divide/Inclusion
-Health Care
-Workforce Development
-Economic Development
-Education
-Social Services
-Community Engagement & Democratic Process
-Government Services
-Public Safety & Emergency Response
Links focused on digital literacy, computer, and technology training skills to bridge the digital divide.
Resource material for use by communities striving to build awareness around community broadband initiatives.
Links providing presentations, papers, research, commentary, and analysis, regarding current and impending legislation and regulatory issues affecting topics such as digital privacy rights and spectrum ownership.
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