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Oregon’s Broadband Strategic
Planning ProjectUpdate – October 2013
Nancy JesualePresident, NetCity Inc.
Portland, OR [email protected]
Project Overview
Chartered By
Oregon Broadband Advisory CommitteeOregon Business Development Department
Project Manager Project Director Kickoff & Target End DatesNancy Jesuale,
NetCity Inc.Christopher Tamarin,
Oregon Business Development DepartmentStart: 2/24/12
End: 3/31/2014
Problem Statement
Many Oregon communities do not have a strategic approach that will enable them to leverage the benefits of broadband applications to
enhance economic development, education, health, and environmental and public safety.
Broadband planning can enable communities to access these benefits and enhance opportunity and quality of life in their
communities.
8 Diverse Communities SelectedCompleted:• City of Eugene• City of Sandy• Wasco County/Qlife consortium• Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
In Progress:• Monmouth / Independence (MINET)• City of Myrtle Point• South Central Oregon Economic Development Dist.• City of Sherwood
www.oregonbroadbandplanning.org
Common Themes and Possible Statewide Policy Issues
From the first four plans
Awareness of Broadband’s Impacts on all
sectors• Need to Promote Digital Literacy for all ages• Need to address universal access through policy and
incentive programs• Affordability of both service and access devices• All communities need mentoring programs
State policy action items
• Standards: Aspirational standards that “set the bar” as to what is acceptable broadband service in an Oregon Community in 2015 – 2020.
• Advocacy: lack of broadband service in rural areas, in poor communities, and in schools should not be an “acceptable” reality in Oregon. Political will to find solutions to access issues is needed.
• Key Institutions should be enlisted in a variety of effortso Libraries are essential partners in offering access and trainingo Universities and Community Colleges can become involved
with living labs and pilot projectso Schools, State need to embrace creative educational models
and new policies
State policy action items• Involve the state’s health insurers in tele-medicine policy
• Coordination of public health and public education o Student health records and student registrationo Parent education
• Link to economic development is a combination of world-class broadband services, low cost power and excellent educational opportunities. These could have statewide implications.
• Oregon needs some pilot project/living labs implemented
Take-Aways for OBAC (? Nancy’s
musings…) • Oregon could do a state-wide strategic plan, starting
with the eight community plans—and producing a statewide action agenda and road-map. Oregon could be the one of the first states to implement a statewide plan.
• Oregon should be looking at the issues surfacing in these local plans and devote resources to solving some of these problems
• There are many potential partners to recruit in the state-wide effort – universities and community colleges, state agencies, private companies, employers, health insurance and health care providers etc.
Evaluations• Received 4 of 4• Evaluation Scale was 1-5 (5 being best)• Received positive evaluations (mostly 4s and 5s in all
categories.
