By Brian McNeall | Columbia Business Times | January 5, 2011 Last year’s topics from the Columbia Business Times’ annual Power Lunch series provided plenty of food for thought. From January to November, 10 Power Lunch noon meetings brought together leaders in business, government, politics and nonprofit organizations to discuss a variety of subjects
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By Joan Engebretson | Connected Planet | December 12, 2011 The Gig U project said late last week that it has received “dozens of favorable responses” to its request for information (RFI) seeking approaches for accelerating the deployment of ultra-high-speed networks to university communities around the country. Gig U, headed up by National Broadband Plan
As a reminder to those interested in submitting responses to the Gig.U RFI, we have extended the response deadline to December 2nd. We hope this extension will provide potential respondents with the time they need to prepare their submissions. Respondents should submit 3 hard copies of their response documents as well as an electronic
Earlier today Mayor Mike McGinn and University of Washington President Michael Young joined Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at UW, and Louise Little, Greater University Chamber of Commerce, at the UW Medical Center to announce a partnership to bring high-speed fiber to the neighborhoods surrounding UW. Gig.U Executive Director, Blair Levin, had
Based on feedback from a number of potential respondents, the Gig.U members have decided to move the RFI response date back from November 16 to Friday, December 2nd. Additional Information Links We have also posted links to more community-specific information such as economic & demographic profiles, information about top local employers and/or local redevelopment or
Based on feedback at our RFI Workshop on September 26th, Gig.U members have decided to update the schedule for responding to the RFI. We are pushing back all deadlines by one week, giving folks more time to digest what they have heard, organize internally and work on responses. Please see below for the updated schedule.
By Anders Bylund | The Motley Fool | September 27, 2011 Remember the fiber-optic networks that Google is building in Stanford and the twin Kansas Cities? Big G wants to do more of those. This time, it’s bringing some friends to the party. The aptly named Gig.U project aims to connect research universities across America
Today, Gig.U releases a Request for Information (RFI) seeking creative strategies for our members to work with the private sector to achieve their goals for ultra-high speed broadband. This step is the result of extensive collaboration between the 37 university and community pairs that make up the membership of Gig.U. Our challenge was to develop
ATTENTION CONSULTANTS: As a member of the Roanoke Regional Commission, member university Virginia Tech is taking part in an RFP process to solicit proposals from consultants specializing in broadband planning and deployment. Interested parties should visit http://www.rvarc.org for more information. The deadline for submission is September 16. — A coalition of regional organizations involved in