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Overland Park, Kansas, Announces Agreement with AT&T GigaPower
With the news that Overland Park, Kansas, will receive AT&T GigaPower in addition to Google Fiber, the KC metro is even closer to becoming a more connected city.
KC Digital Inclusion Fund Showcase and Call for Applications
The Kansas City Digital Inclusion Fund is seeking applications for its next round of grants. In the meantime, learn about the 2013 at the Grantee Showcase on Thursday, August 7, at the Fiber Space.
Digital Health Innovation Forum Debuts at Sprint Accelerator August 20, 2014
Join the KC Digital Drive on the eve of mHIT2014, the Midwest Health Informatics & Telemedicine Conference at Children’s Mercy, to learn about exciting projects leveraging high-speed fiber optic internet to deliver healthcare in new ways.
TWC Joins Google and AT&T in Wanting to Bring More Speed to KC
As Google completes its community-reshaping fiber-to-the-home buildouts in KCMO and KCK and starts moving into the suburbs, Time Warner and AT&T are preparing to launch their own new service initiatives.
Gigabit City Summit Identifies 5 Key Areas for Regional Tech Advancement
On July 29, 2014, more than 75 local technology advocates and civic leaders gathered at the UMKC Bloch School Executive Hall for the first-ever Kansas City Regional Gigabit City Summit. In addition to hearing reports from city leaders, the audience joined in and brainstormed ideas for civic focus.
Ten Projects Receive $165,400 from Mozilla Gigabit Community Fund
In July Mozilla announced ten projects in Kansas City and Chattanooga that will receive funding from the Gigabit Community Fund, an initiative to support learning programs that utilize gigabit connectivity.
Gigabit City Summit Comes to UMKC July 29
On Tuesday, July 29, the Kansas City Digital Drive invites local civic leaders interested in exploring the possibilities of gigabit connectivity to attend the first Gigabit City Summit for the Kansas City metro area.
Gigabit Explorer Team Opportunites
As we prepare for our Gigabit Explorer event on Nov 1-3, one critical threshold for success is our ability to identify project teams to tackle meaningful, substantive issues for Kansas City using the next generation web. It’s hard to build something impactful in 48 hours, especially when it involves new and unfamiliar technology. As we did […]
Gigabit City Summit 3 Recap: Toward a Smarter, More Collaborative City
Recap from third Gigabit City Summit global roundtable.
Gigabit City Summit, Session 2: Farther Beyond Broadband
If the first Gigabit City Summit was about how cities learn from each other, then the second installment was where the real learning got started.