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01/25/12
The Summit Series #7: Wired For Success - Nevada In Action
There is an old African proverb that says, "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Connect Nevada’s new “Connected” community certification program is designed to bring all of the state’s broadband achievers together to carry the impact of their work much farther AND faster than they could do it alone. We just couldn't wrap up our Summit blog series without talking Connected! So, in this bonus (seventh!) installment of our 6-blog series, Wired For Success: Nevada In Action, Connected Nation’s Michael Ramage details how “Connected” will bring all of Nevada’s working parts together to meet the...
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01/19/12
The Summit Series #6: Wired For Success - Nevada In Action
Nevada faces a number of broadband challenges that need to be addressed. The sometimes-astronomical cost of buying broadband service is a problem many rural residents and business owners face. In this sixth final installment of our 6-blog series, Wired For Success: Nevada In Action, state broadband summit panelist Kevin Hayes explains how building a solid statewide infrastructure is the first huge step toward bringing the costs down and leveling the local broadband playing field. “What all of these grants do… what all of these projects will do is open up the competition to that and begin to solve that problem through that...
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01/12/12
The Summit Series #5: Wired For Success - Nevada In Action
Expanding Nevada’s broadband infrastructure is a huge undertaking, but one that can be accomplished with the right community leaders working together toward the common goal. In this fifth installment of our 6-blog series, Wired For Success: Nevada In Action, Connected Nation’s Michael Ramage discusses the importance of full community involvement and highlights “informed action” as the key to success. “One of the things that is so important is to get the entire community thinking about technology and really making it a priority. We’re looking at the entire state and there’s a large portion of the state that lives in one county. Once we...
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12/15/11
The Summit Series #4: Wired For Success - Nevada In Action
Broadband is needed even in seemingly unrelated fields of the state’s industry sectors. That’s the a key point made by Work Force Training panelist Ryan Costella at Nevada’s first-ever broadband summit. In this fourth installment of our 6-week blog series, Wired For Success: Nevada In Action, Costella demonstrates how high-speed Internet access and skills are critical to filling jobs in an area where there will soon be lots of openings. “Our owners, we looked out into the next five, even ten years and realized that the Baby-boomer machinists are going to be retiring and we have this giant number of skilled workers that we need to...
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