Last week, Dakota Future held a Broadband Forum. It included a keynote from Michael Langley who spoke on the importance of regional economic development, local broabdand providers and local government/IT folks. It also included some stories of broabdand success. I have included videos of the presentations below:

David Riggs from Inver Hills Community College speaks about the impact broadband and social media has had on education. Twenty-five percent of the classes offered are either entirely online or a blended class (meaning some aspects are online). Both students and teachers are interested in using mobile devices – they use them on campus and from home. Video is a huge component of many classes.

Dr. Sonja Short from Fairview Ridges talks about how the hospitals have been using broadband to provide services to patients and streamline hospital adiminstration.

David Mason from Wings Financial talks about online banking and how they use broadband for efficiency, security and innovation. They have been able to change how they operate through broadband – especially in terms of centralizing IT administration.