This document discusses empowering and enabling communities through public Wi-Fi networks. It describes how providing free public Wi-Fi can empower city departments, promote local economic development, and enable community members. Specifically, Wi-Fi networks can help streamline city services, encourage local business growth by removing barriers to technology access, and give community members improved access to education, healthcare resources, and jobs by making broadband services more widely available. The document then reviews the costs and funding options to set up a municipal Wi-Fi network, noting initial costs of $41,464.20 but potential grants that could help cover expenses.
14. Empowering City Departments
• Sets a foundation for:
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Video surveillance
Traffic sensors
Parking meters
Digital Signage
Departmental connectivity
• Streamline City business
• Cut costs for City connectivity
15. Empowering Economic Development
• Removes entry barrier for local businesses
• Promotes use of technology
• Saves businesses time and money
– Decentralized POS, VoIP phones, cloud computing
• Provides an on-ramp to the World for local
businesses
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17. Empowering the Community
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Focuses the community on downtown area
Encourages interaction with local business
Provides a digital habitat for students & adults
Helps the City help the students
20. enable
a. To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity.
b. To make feasible or possible.
21. To supply with the opportunity to..
• Texas broadband subscribers report that finding healthcare information online saved
them an average of 2.4 trips to the doctor, and 2.4 trips to the emergency room in
the past year.
• Texas broadband subscribers report that they drive an average of 165.6 fewer miles
per month as a result of subscribing to home broadband service.
• Texas broadband subscribers are able to do things faster with broadband, resulting in
an estimated 15 hours per month that can be spent with family, developing a small
business, or helping in their communities.
The combined savings of broadband adoption on the Texas economy is $40.9
billion. An additional $700 million is saved for every 1% increase of broadband
adoption across the state.
23. Job Creation
• Broadband creates 2.6 new jobs for every one
job lost.
A 7% increase in broadband penetration could
create an additional 2.4 million new jobs.
27. Enable the community for..
• Jobs!
• Better access to education!
• Driving Economic Growth!
28. Economic Growth
• Over the past 15 years, the Internet has
enabled as much economic growth as the
Industrial Revolution generated
in its first 50 years.
• Providing businesses with connectivity spurs
their ability to compete globally.
• Social Media as an economic growth engine
30. If you build it, they will come..
• Identify locations that you want to offer
access in.
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32. If you build it, they will come..
• Identify locations that you want to offer
access in.
• Determine where to place equipment.
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35. If you build it, they will come..
• Identify locations that you want to offer
access in.
• Determine where to place equipment.
• Simulate what the coverage will look like
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37. If you build it, they will come..
• Identify locations that you want to offer
access in.
• Determine where to place equipment.
• Simulate what the coverage will look like
• Install and configure equipment
Tech in the Valley, digital inclusion, dial-up providers, etc.
Build solutions for people across the US & Canada
Supply with an ability
Enabling the small business
Enabling the community
Save a trip to the doctorThis translates into a statewide savings of $7.6 billion annually.Save some gasSave some time to spend with familyStatewide, Texas broadband subscribers save an estimated 2.1 billion hours per year, worth approximately $22 billion annually.