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Broadband Nation
By: Bradford Bowman

National Broadband Plan, Identifying Assets, Creative Solutions, Strategies & Alliances

Recent Posts
  1. Monetizing the Middle Band EBS - The Clearwire Opportunity
  2. Clearwire On Track by Providing Leading Edge Innovative Educational Infrastructure
  3. Sprint Bailing on WiMAX - Moving to LTE Makes Sense
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Digital Citizen Pulse
By: Ulf Wolf

Citizen engagement and responsibility in the digital age.

Recent Posts
  1. The Real Digital Divide
  2. A Digital Dictionary
  3. Google Music
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Carl Drescher In the Trenches
By: Carl Drescher

Technology trends and their impacts on the provision of government services.

Recent Posts
  1. When will iGov ship?
  2. A Gigabit to the Home.....
  3. BTOP Grant Awards and Other Links
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Robert Bell Intelligent Communities
By: Robert Bell, John Jung, Louis Zacharilla

Intelligent Communities are those which have - whether through crisis or foresight - come to understand the enormous challenges of the Broadband Economy, and have taken conscious steps to create an economy capable of prospering in it. They are not necessarily big cities or famous technology hubs. They are located in developing nations as well as industrialized ones, suburbs as well as cities, the hinterland as well as the coast.

Recent Posts
  1. Name It and They Will Come
  2. Building Clusters from the Ground Up
  3. The Cluster Evolves as a Tech Development Paradigm
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Indrajit Basu International Beat
By: Indrajit Basu

Digital Community innovations from around the world.

Recent Posts
  1. Singapore: Asia’s Emerging Green Building Hub
  2. India Takes U.S. Help to Improve Cyber Security
  3. Net Neutrality: The Dutch Move Quickly
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Bill Greeves MuniGov 2.0
By: Bill Greeves

Exploring government collaboration via technology.

Recent Posts
  1. Have You Hugged Your 9-1-1 Dispatcher This Week?
  2. NASCIO Negotiates Govt-Friendly ToS Changes with Facebook
  3. Govt 2.0: From Tools to Policy to Convergence
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Notes from a City CIO
By: Bill Schrier

Making technology work for a city government.

Recent Posts
  1. Overpromise and Underdeliver
  2. Tech Lessons from the Seattle Snowstorm
  3. A Private-Public Radio Network?
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Jim Stanton Web 2.0 Convergence
By: Jim Stanton

The new dynamics of communication and collaboration under crisis.

Recent Posts
  1. The YouTube Revolution is With Us
  2. iPad Surges into the Market (And into Government Service)
  3. Mingleverse Creates New Virtual Meeting Space
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What Went Right?
By: Wayne Hanson

What makes an ideal community, and how can civic leaders help their cities, counties and regions evolve to better meet old necessities and new opportunities?

Recent Posts
  1. What Went Right: Mobile Devices
  2. What Went Right? Meth Busts Drop 96 Percent
  3. Drinking Water and Sewage -- May They Never Meet
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Featured White Papers & Reports

The Future of the Desktop in Government

Until recently, there was no alternative to the familiar desktop computer, and its expensive upgrades and maintenance requirements. For cash-strapped local governments, the desktop computer is quickly becoming an unsustainable option for future progress. Now, a technology known as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) offers an alternative. It can be significantly more affordable than buying individual computers for every employee, and it provides similar capability. This paper shows how VDI is the future of the desktop and is a game-changer for local governments.


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