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December 3, 2009

The digital divide is the difference between life with and without the Internet. How is life different for people with and without Internet? The digital divide has impacts in every arena of life.

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November 21, 2009

An article on municipal ownership of cable, franchise renewal, and SMBI from The City Eagle.

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November 16, 2009

To prepare for negotiating a cable franchise renewal with Time Warner Cable (TWC), the city of Syracuse hired Sue Buske of The Buske Group, Inc. to perform a needs assessment for community broadband services. A large component of this was a series of six public workshops in which participants expressed their views,concerns, and desires regarding the cultural and economic development of Syracuse, and how public access to our local broadband infrastructure can strengthen the community.

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July 18, 2009

A common description of Net Neutrality goes something like this one from Google...

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May 22, 2009

We have created a rationale and proposal document describing the Syracuse Municipal Broadband Initiative in greater detail. You will find the HTML and PDF versions here. This will probably be a "living" document, updated over time as the project evolves.

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May 22, 2009

We have created a one page document describing the Syracuse Municipal Broadband Initiative. You will find the HTML and PDF versions here.

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May 21, 2009

Our local telecommunications (TV, Internet, phone) infrastructure is crucial to the social, economic, and democratic health of our community. It is equal in importance to our public roads, schools, and utility services. As technology progresses, and the diversity of services grow, we will become evermore connected, reliant, and dependent on our communications network. We are foolish if we as a community do not take action to secure public control of our communications network.

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May 7, 2009

Welcome to the new website of the Syracuse Municipal Broadband Initiative.There is still a lot to do on the technical side. And there isn't much content, yet, but it will grow over time. We are writing and gathering documents and resource links in order to provide visitors a complete resource of information on municipal broadband in general, and on the Syracuse initiative in particular...

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