Technology Strategies and Tools

Connected West Virginia - www.connectedwestvirginia.com

Provided are resources and links to effective community strategies and tools involving the use broadband.

Bridges.org - e-Assessment and e-Readiness Tools
http://www.bridges.org/ereadiness/index.html

Community Guide To Broadband Development
Blandin Foundation
http://www.blandinfoundation.org/html/public_bb_guide.cfm

Tech CEO Council - Readiness Guide for Living in the Networked World
Click to read

Lonestar Broadband - Connectivity Toolkit for Underserved Texas Communities
http://www.lonestarbroadband.org/howtoguide/assesstools.htm

National Center for Small Communities
Getting Online 2.0: a small-town guide to creating 21st-century communities
 Click to read To get a free copy, send an email to info@wvconnectivity.net)

Wi-Fi for Rural Communities
Click to read

Nebraska Information Technology Commission
Building Information Communities: Community Assessment
Click to read

ConnectKentucky:
Community Benchmarking Tool - click to read

On the Road to a Gigabit Broadband: Are we there yet?
A Self-Assessment Guide for Communities
Click to read
This guide is designed to provide a benchmark of your community’s current readiness to participate in the enormous economic, social, governmental and personal changes that high-speed communications entail.  More important, this guide provides a vision of specific steps and actions your community—government, businesses, schools, community groups and citizens—can take to benefit from these changes.

Intelligent Community Forum - click to access