At the CBAIS conference in Cleveland today, Laura Breeden of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration helped to clarify the following questions: “Who is an adopter, who is a subscriber, and who do we count?” for BTOP grantees in the audience. Breeden said the NTIA is asking BTOP grantees to count household broadband subscribers, business [...]

I’m here at day two of the CBAIS conference sitting in on the Sustainability Through Community Engagement session. Bill Callahan from OneCommunity introduced the session by proposing two questions to all the panelists: 1. What does sustainability mean? Callahan said that we use the term vaguely, like community. In this context it’s clear what it [...]