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Technology Plan Resources
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Collaborative Members In The News
- Urban Renewal, the Wireless Way
Thanks to Wi-Fi networks, cellphones and global positioning locators,
there's a new sense of place in the city.
By Linda Baker, Salon.com, November 29, 2004
- Goal is to Bring High Tech to Low-income Area
A media center and computer education are part of a plan for
the Temple University community.
by Anthony S. Twyman, Philadelphia Inquirer,
October 11, 2004
Technology Plans by Collaborative Members
- APM Technology Plan (not yet available online) (2004)
Asociacion de Puertorriquenos en
Marcha
The plan suggests a neighborhood-based strategy focused on utilizing
technology to reinforce the social, physical and economic
objectives of APM and their partners.
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Riverdale e-Village
and Network Station: Toward a Cyber Southland (2003)
Executive
Summary [PDF], Vision
Report [PDF], Technical
Report [PDF]
The Riverdale e-Village is an example of a village-scale Digital
Center. The Cyber Southland section of the Technical Report describes
how the Digital Centers Strategy would be applied to the Southern
Suburbs of Chicago.
- Hudson
County Cyberdistrict Feasibility Study [PDF] [More]
(2001)
Hudson County Office of Strategic Revitalization
The study is a comprehensive initiative to integrate technology into
Hudson County 's economic development, workforce, educational and physical
environment.
Known Technology Plans
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- Prospectus
for a Regional Telecommunications Planning Program,
[PDF] (2003)
Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (SEWRPC)
The purpose of this prospectus is to explore the need for,
and recommend the means by which, a technically sound and feasible
regional telecommunications planning program can be established for
the Southeastern Wisconsin Region. The prospectus is intended to
provide the information required to permit the various levels of
government and the telecommunications service industry to consider
the benefits and costs of such a program and to determine the desirability
of its execution. (72 pages)
- Utah's Public-Private Fiber-to-the-Premises Intiative, (not available
online) (2003)
UTOPIA: Utah Telecommunication Open Infrasturcture Agency
UTOPIA is an interlocal-governmental agency formed by 18 Utah cities comprising
a third of Utahís population. UTOPIA's purpose is to build, maintain and
operate a telecommunications infrastructure that gives each home and business
the opportunity to have reasonably-priced access to an ultrahigh- speed network
offering. (25 pages)
- Network
NYC: Building the Broadband City,
[PDF] (May, 2003)
New York City Council
At over $130 million in annual expenditures, the City of
New York is the largest municipal
buyer of telecommunications goods and services in the United States.
Despite this fact, the City has never published a comprehensive,
long-range vision statement for its telecommunications infrastructure.
This document discusses and makes preliminary recommendations about
a long-term strategic plan for how the City could better organize
this public and private infrastructure to encourage a truly citywide
deployment of affordable, high speed networking capacity. (22 pages)
- Technology
Element, Comprehensive Plan, [PDF] (2002)
City of Plano, Texas
Provides a broad overview of policies to use technology to ehance 1)
quality of life, 2) competitive business advantages/economic development, and
3) efficient communications. (4 pages)
- Technology
Element, Mount Vernon Comprehensive Plan, [PDF] (2002)
Mount Vernon, WA
The City of Mount Vernon is working to fund and install a fiber optic cable ring
throughout the community for public and private use. This initiative links public
agencies together via fiber optic cable, while providing external broadband telecommunications
access for public agencies and private entrepreneurs. (19 pages)
- Communications
Technology Link of the Comprehensive Plan, [PDF] (2002)
City of Kerrville, TX
The plan examines the issues associated with the planning, provision, and access
to communications technology services in the City. (9 pages)
- Information
Technology Element, Blacksburg 2046 Comprehensive Plan (2001)
Blacksburg, VA
The plan explains how the City will use technology to expand
community cohesiveness, to take advantage of new technological opportunities,
to enhance public services, and to make Blacksburg a model community
in the use of technology to improve quality of life. Categories include:
Community Technology, Public Access in Blacksburg, Telecommunications
Providers, Current Technologies, Opportunities, Challenges, What
is Changing, General Policies, Action Strategies. (27 pages)
- Technology and Telecommunications Element of the Vacaville General
Plan, (not available online) (2001)
City of Vacaville, CA
Summary: This document addresses the provision of telecommunications services
to businesses, residence and the city; provides a framework for dealing with
new technology isues, and seeks to protect public resources from installation
of infrastructure. (8 pages)
- CivicNet
Plan, [PDF] (2001)
Author: City of Chicago, IL
At the time, considered the "most ambitious public-private fiber optic network" in
the United States. Chicago's three-year-old CivicNet effort seeks to completely
redesign the municipal, business, and residential telecom network in Chicago
by guaranteeing city telecom billing over a period of ten years.
- Wireless
Communications Technology Element: 2010 Land Use Plan,
[PDF] (2000)
Author: Henrico County, VA
The goals of the wireless communications technology amendment
focus on ensuring the adequate provision of telecommunications infrastructure
in the county that will meet industry needs while minimizing impact
on adjacent and surrounding land uses. (10 pages)
Books
- Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places,
Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin, Routledge, London and New York,
1996
- City of Bits: Space: Place and the Infobahn, William J.
Mitchell, MIT Press, Cambridge and London, 1995
- e-topia: urban life, Jim - but not as we know it, William
J. Mitchell, MIT Press, Cambridge and London, 1999
Other Interesting Documents
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