Economic Development

DC Features

• Giving Rural America a Competitive Edge
  Broadband could give rural America the competitive advantage for corporate business.
  
• Broadband May Help Cities Compete in Economic Recovery
  The nation's communities need more than an economic stimulus to address their challenges.
  
• Broadband Is Key to Economic Development
  Industrialized and developing nations must align priorities and understand the broadband economy's trajectory.
  
• Issy-les-Moulineaux Leads France in Broadband Technology
  French city uses information and communication technology to shift from manufacturing to tech-based intelligent community.
  
• Broadband Stimulus: Economic Crisis Drives New Thinking
  With $7.1 billion in broadband stimulus funds on the way, the debate continues over how to build out the nation's broadband infrastructure.
  
• Local Governments and Technology Companies Offer Advice to Obama Administration
  Letter to Obama administration calls for national broadband plan and more support for IT infrastructure.
  
• Sudanese ICT Movement Serves the Underprivileged
  Ahmed Eisa, founder of the Gedaref Digital City Organization (GDCO), is succeeding in bridging the digital divide in one of the world's poorest countries -- Sudan.
   
   
  
• Software to Save the Planet?
  Buildings are the single largest contributor to global warming, accounting for almost half of total annual U.S. energy consumption and CO2 emissions.As a consequence, an emerging answer to the continuing build-up of greenhouse gases is to design and build greener buildings.
  
• Leadership Interview - Jory Wolf
  Each year, American cities that excel in the digital arena are recognized by the Center for Digital Government through its Digital Cities Survey. As a result of its continuing leadership and innovation Santa Monica, Calif., ranked 1st in the mid-size city category. Digital Communities discussed the city's winning strategies with CIO Jory Wolf.
  
• Midwest Earthquake a Wake-Up Call
  After a 5.2-magnitude earthquake in West Salem, scientists caution against undue alarm. But for city planners, expecting the worst and guarding against it are part of the job description.
  

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DC US News

• Regional Permit Management System for Connecticut Cities and Towns
  By early 2010, the system will be deployed in eight Connecticut municipalities; many additional communities are already on track to join Phase 2.
  
• City of San Carlos Builds Virtual Business Guide on Facebook
  The city will follow local businesses that also use social media.
  
• Energy Leaders Call for Independent U.S. Energy Council
  The United States should create a high-level independent council to analyze and communicate critical issues to energy policymakers and the public, a group of 27 leaders in academia, government, and the private sector recommends in a new report.
  
• New Orleans Unveils Floating House
  The 46,000 pound "chassis" of the house is constructed of polystyrene foam covered with a shell of reinforced concrete.
  
• Weekly Wrap: Calls Increase to Extend Economic Stimulus to Help States
  Talk of another federal economic stimulus package is gaining momentum largely because federal officials are beginning to realize that state governments will be worse off next year compared to the first two years of the recession.
  
• State Broadband Mapping Grants Announced
  Grant Program to fund activities in California, Indiana, North Carolina and Vermont.
  
• ARRA Funds to Fuel Virginia's Energy Plan
  "Renew Virginia" initiative promotes renewable energy, creates green jobs and encourages preservation of the environment.
  

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DC International News

• EU Opens GSM to Advanced Wireless Communication Devices
  "The new EU rules published today allow the re-farming of the radio spectrum in the GSM band for new mobile services, strengthen competition and save the mobile industry up to €1.6 billion in capital costs."
  
• EU Releases Report on Green Knowledge Society
  "The ICT sector can lift Europe out of the present economic crisis, if we can agree on an ambitious agenda for a pro-competitive and green European knowledge society and for a single market for digital goods and services."
  
• Index Attempts to Measure Social Value of Broadband Policy
  "A relatively low-speed mobile connection may have tremendous value to a low-income consumer that does not own a computer -- and the value to society of connecting that person may be far greater than boosting download speeds from 10 Mbps to 20 Mbps in a rich suburban area."
  
• Workshop Examines Challenges of Coastal Migration
  A recent workshop organized by LOICZ (Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone), a core project of the International Geosphere-Bioshphere Programme and the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, has highlighted the increasing challenges of popolation mirgration.
  
• Digital Britain Launched Today
  "Only a Digital Britain will enable us to demonstrate the vision and dynamism that we have to shape the future."
  
• Kenya Experiences Wind and Solar Powered Mobile Communications
  "Sites like this one have great potential for solving the African power-grid challenge of bringing mobile communication to those at the bottom of the economic pyramid."
  
• American Samoa Governor Meets on Call Centers, Other Matters
  "We are asking ... to allow American Samoa to be a part of any U.S. State Department delegation as an ‘observer' in any or all Pacific regional meetings."
  

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