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Planning
Up one levelDetails regarding this project.
Mission
To facilitate the creation of a sustainable community owned high speed fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband network for Medicine Hat and other Alberta towns and cities. This infrastructure can help future proof our communities, enabling them to compete on a level playing field and deliver the social benefits that similar networks have been shown to deliver elsewhere.
Stage 1: Opportunity
A presentation was made to community leaders about municipal involvement in communication networks. The specific focus of this seminar is a comprehensive Fiber To The Home (FTTH) deployment to serve many local interests.
CHAT 6 & 3 News on Fiber To The Home
A short video by the local news team on the seminar we hosted on Feb11th, 2009.
Letter of Support Template
Here is a template letter of support you can use to illustrate your support of this project. Submitting this letter of support on behalf of your community, organization or family will help us gain political approval of this communications initiative.
South East Alberta ICT Alliance
Stakeholders and supporters form the entity which can best be described as the South East Alberta ICT Alliance. This is a group of organizations who may be affected by this project. Some have already expressed desire to take a collaborative approach to building the community based communication networks of the future.
Stage 2: Formal workshops
Further discussion is warranted. Additional workshops will be required of 2 or 3 days in length for city officials and department heads as well as other interested parties.
FTTH Public Private Partnership Analysis
A short document outlining some of the relevant details for how the Public Private Partnerships have come together in other parts of the world.
Federal Broadband Policy Discussion Paper
A brief paper discussing some of the issues and policy options regarding federal government involvement in broadband. The intention is to provide a high level view of some of the issues. Presented is a neutral position but one that is sympathetic toward ventures under consideration by private investors and the possibility of public private partnerships.
Government programs and funding
Links to programs and resources available from the provincial and federal government which could be accessed to help our community pursue communications master planning for a FTTH initiative.
Stage 3: Groundwork
Work to create awareness and share information with the public by establishing a broad array of local representation.
Reference Resources
Links to relevant research information for the fttx and ftth communications networks and community networking.
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