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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 [...] Ever wonder how Dakota County government connects? It turns out some smart decisions were made starting ten years ago. According to the Dakota County website… For the past 10 years, Dakota County has successfully connected public entities within Dakota County with fiber optic cable through collaborative efforts between the state, cities, schools, and other [...] A local resident speaks about Dakota County. Shirley works and lives in Dakota County. Kim Lindquist, Community Development Director for the City of Rosemount speaks about Dakota County. The final presentation of the day highlighted ways that folks in Dakota County are using broadband to make our lives better. David Riggs told us how the modern student learns with technology. Remember when you could take a computer class in college? Well now you can take a class on the computer. It has [...] It was great to hear from difference segments of Dakota County and to get their views on broadband. An important segment is the local government entities. We heard from them on the Community Panel: Working Together on Broadband and Technology. Specifically we heard from the following: Tammy Omdahl, City of Burnsville Tom Garrison, City [...] We were pleased to have a panel for three of the largest Dakota County providers talk about their broadband infrastructure and plans for the future. We head from the following: Mark Tupper – CenturyLink JoAnne Johnson – Frontier Communications Jeff Parris – Comcast Business Click on their names above to see a video on [...] The Broadband Forum last week was a great success. We had about 50 attendees; we all left a little wiser and inspired to improve broadband in Dakota County. The day started with Michael Langley from Metro MSP helping us focus on regional economic development. It was a good reminder that in today’s global economy, we [...] We look forward to seeing folks on Thursday. Below is the agenda, you can also download in PDF Dakota Future Broadband Forum April 21, 2011 Burnsville Performing Arts Center 12600 Nicollet Avenue Heart of the City, Burnsville Agenda 8:00 – Registration and continental breakfast 8:30 – Welcome from the Dakota Future Board Chair Jan [...] The Dakota Future Broadband Forum is shaping up to be a very interesting morning. We hope that you will be able to join us for breakfast, networking and quality information about the importance, availability and use of broadband in Dakota County. Michael Langley, leader of the new Twin Cities Regional Economic Development Group, will [...] |
Innovation Networks are business-driven peer groups around key business processes, enabling sharing of information and best practices between Dakota County companies. Our first two networks – Lean Processes and Advanced IT are about to launch. (Learn more)
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