Each month the Blandin Foundation hosts two conversations or lunch bunch sessions. This month the second Lunch Bunch, which focuses on Digital Use and Inclusion, falls on the same day of the MN Broadband Task Force meeting. The Task Force … Continue reading
Each month the Blandin Foundation hosts two conversation or lunch bunch sessions. The first Lunch Bunch in July happens tomorrow at noon (July 14). It will be an open topic. SO bring in any questions, stories or ideas that you … Continue reading
From the MN DFL Rural Caucus… The DFL Rural Caucus is proud to host a non-partisan forum on Minnesota Rural Broadband, featuring Nathan Zacharias and the MN Rural Broadband Coalition. Learn how to conduct the “speed test” from your own … Continue reading
EPB reports… Newly-released, independent research documents $2.69 billion in community benefit during the first ten years since EPB of Chattanooga built America’s first Gig-speed community-wide network and used it to establish the nation’s most advanced smart grid power distribution system. … Continue reading
Looking at the map from the Office of Broadband Development (OBD), Koochiching County is looks unserved, but 68.8 percent of the population has access to speeds of at least 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up. On the ground that means if … Continue reading
Looking at the map from the Office of Broadband Development (OBD), Lac qui Parle (LqP) County is served. They rank third in terms of county coverage (99.57 percent) at speeds of at least 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up. The county is … Continue reading
Looking at the map from the Office of Broadband Development (OBD), Sherburne County is a mixed bag of served, underserved and unserved. They rank 49th in terms of county coverage at speeds of at least 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up. … Continue reading
Looking at the map from the Office of Broadband Development (OBD), Swift County is *nearly* green throughout, which means they are *mostly* served with speeds of at least 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up. (In fact the rank fourth for coverage!) … Continue reading
Looking at the map from the Office of Broadband Development (OBD), Rock County is green throughout, which means they are served with speeds of at least 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up. As Superintendent Todd said, they are like Little House … Continue reading
Looking at the map from the Office of Broadband Development (OBD), you can see that outside of the town of Mora, Kanabec is awash in pink (unserved) and purple (underserved). And talking to two people who live in town (served) and work … Continue reading
Looking at the map from the Office of Broadband Development (OBD), you can see that Le Sueur County has a lot of unserved places (in pink). They have been working on changing that. In fact, I think Le Sueur (in part) is to … Continue reading
Looking at the map from the Office of Broadband Development (OBD), you can see that Chisago County has very uneven access to broadband. Many areas (including some of the green area) have fiber to the home; while other areas (in … Continue reading
The coronavirus sheltering and distancing is bringing technology (and access to broadband!) to the forefront in so many ways. Today I have a bunch of tools designed for local governments, although probably just as useful to other organizations. Starting with … Continue reading
Senior Living talks about of technology in helping residents in senior living facilities… The United States and the rest of the world have seen terrible pandemics before, but arguably nothing in our lifetimes like coronavirus disease 2019, otherwise known as COVID-19. You’ve … Continue reading
MinnPost ran a fun story on how local candidates are using social media. Such as SnapChat… [Karin] Housley, a first-term Republican state senator representing the eastern suburbs, saw an opportunity. She thought the temporary, rapid-fire nature of snaps, which disappear after … Continue reading
