[1st-mile-nm] Fwd: I3 Connectivity Explorer: Updated with State-Wide School District Information

[Richard Lowenberg]

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Subject: I3 Connectivity Explorer: Updated with State-Wide School 
District Information
Date: 2020-04-06 12:17
 From: Internet is Infrastructure 
<ballance at internet-is-infrastructure.org>

Every School District has a Voice

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I3 CONNECTIVITY EXPLORER

APRIL 6, 2020

The  I3 Connectivity Explorer (Version 0.25)  offers new ways to
review all school districts in any state using a variety of key
indicators. The most pertinent is  the Digital Distress Indicator
(DDI) which ranks the districts in a state, relative to each other, by
their digital connectivity. The views are useful when thinking about how
to respond short-term to the COVID-19 crisis ("_Where are those WiFi hot
spots best deployed?"_) and longer term when deciding where to invest.
Since every school district in the state appears on the list,  every
school district, large or small, is represented.

Other indicators in the summary include:

  	* District size and type information (unified, secondary, or
elementary),
  	* Data from the National Center on Educational Statistics about
enrollments and the percent of students eligible for free or
reduced-price school lunches,
  	* Demographic information, such as median household income and
families in poverty,
  	* Selected Census data on Internet usage and subscriptions including
whether persons under 18  do not have a computer in the home,  or
whether they have a computer but not an Internet subscription,
  	* The wire-line providers at 25Mbs↓/3Mbs↑, and
  	* The wireless providers at 4G LTE.

The data appears in a summary  table. A companion map shows the DDI
across the state. You can download  state data as a CSV file that can be
imported into a spreadsheet.

Access the new views from the “state-wide” menu that is present in
every notebook. Visually, this menu appears between the active notebook
selector and the “Demographics” menu. You can see screenshots  at
Internet Is Infrastructure. As always, let me know what you think.
Your feedback helps to shape the application.

Thanks!
Bob Ballance
ballance at internet-is-infrastructure.org

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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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