An Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) grantee will...
An Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) grantee will kick off a new “stakeholder alignment approach” in about two weeks, project leader and University of Illinois Professor Jon Gant told NATOA Saturday in New Orleans. Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband is…
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a middle-mile project with a last-mile component, Gant said. “We're going out and doing a new study to talk to stakeholders,” he said. The study will entail identifying their priorities -- and significantly, identifying overlap of priorities in what he called a z-flower, he said. The database will result in charts with green and red to show the overlap and will help create community partnerships that will benefit Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband, he said. The Illinois project relies on these partnerships because the BTOP grant only funds the fiber and acquisition of customers for the network but not digital literacy elements or computers for public centers or anything else, Gant said: “We're having to reach out across our community."