Complimentary Webinar

Best Practice: Franklin County’s Innovative Approach to Rural Broadband Deployment

Thursday, May 21, 2009
11:00 am Pacific / 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar Duration: 135 minutes

Rural counties across the nation share the same challenges when it comes to broadband – including large land area, dispersed populations, and limited funds.  Franklin County, Virginia, succeeded in meeting those challenges through an innovative best practice example of rural broadband development.  As nationwide interest in rural broadband increases as a result of billions of dollars of planned economic stimulus funding, Franklin County’s example is critical and timely.

Join Government Technology Magazine and the Center for Digital Government for an interactive webinar to learn about:

• How Franklin County succeeded in meeting the broadband needs of their rural community and reduced county operational costs by applying an innovative approach to this project
  
  
• How Franklin County was able to connect 16 fire & rescue stations to the network allowing for greater information distribution and reporting, operational improvement, and reduced response times
  
  
• The critical role that federal grant funding played in the process, and how you can identify similar dollars for your community
  
  
• How existing county assets like towers, water tanks, and poles were leveraged in exchange for services
  
  
• The innovative best practices that allowed the county to achieve their goals at only 24 percent of the original estimated project cost