Transcript Lively+Duncan+Knott+Harber+Housewright

PROJECT OVERVIEW
www.connectsi.us
www.IWantMyBroadband.com
PANEL MEMBERS
• Rex Duncan – Director of Community
Development and Outreach at Southern
Illinois University Carbondale
• Kathy Lively – Executive Director/Connect SI
• Frank Knott – President/ViTAL Economy, Inc.
• Brad Housewright – VP/RidgeviewTel
• Kim Harber – Retired Communications
Industry Executive
20 COUNTIES – WORKING AS ONE
Population of 423,000 – Workforce of 195,000
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Integrating Community Vitality,
Economic, and Environmental Strategies
Integrated
Finance &
Funding
Strategy
Economic and
Community
Development
Plan
Innovation
Entrepreneurship
Incubation
Connectivity Enabled Strategy
What Characterizes CONNECT SI Initiative?
• Collaborative investment in growing regional economies
• Demand driven broadband enabled innovation economy focus
• Looks at broadband role in how we work, learn, govern, compete, collaborate
• Views economic development as the job of every citizen
• Grass roots based partnership… citizens, regional and state CED
• Brings rationality to digital divide reality…insures solutions work
• Short-term win oriented…less talk and more action
• Benchmarked and measurable in every way…record of success
• Expands local CED capacities through knowledge transfer
PHASE 1 ROADMAP - 07/01/06 – 12/31/07
STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
Phase 1 Outcomes
Greater Egypt COI Strategy
Southeastern COI Strategy
Southern Five COI Strategy
Network
Providers
COI Strategy
GIS Asset Maps
Broadband Strategy
GDP & Healthcare
Economic Models
Connect SI
Regional
CED COI
Strategy
Regional Economic
Strategy
Healthcare Strategy
Regional Economic
Framework
Greater Wabash COI Strategy
Healthcare
Providers
COI Strategy
Five-Year
Measurable Goals
Implementation &
Funding Plan
GIS Mapping Team Supports COI’s
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Phase 2
IMPLEMENTATION
Proposed Goals:
Relationship to Connect SI
Connect SI Goals
27,298 New
Hi-Wage Jobs
41,461
Existing Jobs
>$5,000/Yr
How the
Health
COI
Supports
Connect SI
$642 Million
New KBE Activity
1,600+ Firms
>$2 Billion
New Annual
Wages
+4500 Families
with Healthcare
Coverage
Lift 10,000
Citizens Out
Of Poverty
$200 Million
Information
Technology
Investment
How
Connect SI
Supports
Health
Interests
7,571 New
Hi-Wage Jobs
+4500 Families
with Healthcare
Coverage
>$250 million
New Annual
Wages
Lift 10,000
Citizens Out
of Poverty
$20 Million
Information
Technology
Investment
Win
=Win
Win
Healthcare
People
Community
Jobs, Wages,
Insurance, New
Enterprises
INDUSTRY-BASED COI’S
-Healthcare -Network Providers
Current Healthcare COI Vision Statement
• Supporting the collaboration and interconnection
among healthcare providers and patients to
improve:
– Healthcare access – Connectivity Team
– Health outcomes – Outcomes Team
– Provider profitability – Profitability Team
– Qualified healthcare workforce in Southern Illinois –
Critical Skills Team
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Connect SI Network Providers
Illinois Century
Network
INDUSTRY-BASED COI’S
-Healthcare -Network Providers
NETWORK PROVIDER PROGRESS
1. COI GOALS - BROADBAND REGIONALLY AVAILABLE IN 5 YEARS
- 54% TAKE RATE AMONG SI ADULTS
2. CONDUCTING A PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN AROUND THE
VALUE OF BROADBAND IN THE HOME AND BUSINESS
3. GIGABYTE BANDWIDTH ACCES TO SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
FOR ACCESS TO NATIONAL LAMBDA RAIL/INTERNET 2/I-WIRE
4. DEMAND AGGREGATION INITIATIVES
-170 ADDRESSES NEAR MT. CARMEL, ILLINOIS
-LAKE OF EGYPT HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION
-90 ADDRESSES IN CAIRO, ILLINOIS
-WORK UNDERWAY IN FIVE OTHER COMMUNITIES
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INDUSTRY-BASED COI’S
-Healthcare -Network Providers
GIS MAPPING PROGRESS
1. SUPPLY/DEMAND INFORMATION
- SERVICE AVAILABILITY
- FACULTY/STAFF/STUDENT DATA
- BROADBAND REQUEST SYSTEM
- INFRASTRUCTURE ASSETS
*FIBER ROUTES
*TOWERS incl FCC DATA
2. HEALTHCARE DATA
- 672 ASSETS
- TRANSPORTATION ROUTES
-NETWORKING PHYSICIANS WITH HOSPITALS
3. TOURISM ASSETS PENDING AVAILABILITY OF DATA
www.connectsi.us
www.IWantMyBroadband.com
THANK YOU FOR
YOUR INTEREST!
Kathy Lively, Executive Director
Connect SI
(618) 998-0970, ext. 237
[email protected]
Rex Duncan, Director of
Community Development
(618) 536-3460
[email protected]
Frank Knott, President
ViTAL Economy, Inc.
(410) 321-1484
[email protected]
Kim Harber, Co-Chair
Network Provider COI
(217) 854-6691
[email protected]
Brad Housewright, Co-Chair
Network Provider COI
(303) 842-9974
[email protected]
www.connectsi.us
www.IWantMyBroadband.com