Dakota County has been working on broadaband for more than a decade now – but last spring they entered a Memorandum of Understanding with seven other metropolitan counties to collaborate on telecommunciations infrastructure. According to the Dakota County website…
In May 2011, an MOU was approved between Dakota County and seven other large MN counties for a cross county collaboration process to incent sharing IT infrastructure and functionality. This bold, new initiative directs IT Leadership to review options for sharing underutilized assets as well as costs to implement new emerging technologies, provide new services and purchase technology.
It’s a great way to build on natural and beneficial partnerships to increase broadband deployment and adoption for the whole Twin Cities region.
