[1st-mile-nm] Albuquerque Joins US-Ignite’s Smart Gigabit Communities Program
Richard Lowenberg
rl at 1st-mile.org
Mon Sep 26 12:34:28 PDT 2016
Four Major Cities Join the Smart Gigabit Communities Program
September 26th, 2016 | By Joe Kochan
https://www.us-ignite.org/blog/2016/9/four-major-cities-join-the-smart-gigabit-communities-program
Today, US Ignite announced that four additional cities have joined the
Smart Gigabit Communities program, a network of communities that have
each committed to leveraging next-generation smart city and Internet
technologies to keep pace with the world’s rapidly changing information
technology-driven economy. US Ignite is a nonprofit organization that
fosters the development and deployment of advanced networking
applications that will profoundly change the way Americans live, work
and learn.
US Ignite welcomes the following cities to the Smart Gigabit Communities
Program:
• Adelaide, Australia (the first international city to join the program)
• Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Salisbury, North Carolina
• Washington, District of Columbia
The Smart Gigabit Communities Program, which is funded largely by the
National Science Foundation (NSF), was first announced during the launch
of the Smart Cities Initiative last September. Working in partnership
with US Ignite, each Smart Gigabit Community will develop two gigabit
applications or gigabit public services that provide advanced technology
solutions to issues faced by that community. Each city also agrees to
share those applications with the other communities in the network.
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Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director
1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200
Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504,
rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org
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