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PROJECT OVERVIEW
www.connectsi.uswww.IWantMyBroadband.com
PANEL MEMBERS
• Rex Duncan – Director of Community Development and Outreach at Southern Illinois University Carbondale
• Kathy Lively – Executive Director/Connect SI• Frank Knott – President/ViTAL Economy, Inc.• Brad Housewright – VP/RidgeviewTel• Kim Harber – Retired Communications
Industry Executive
© ViTAL Economy 2007
Population of 423,000 – Workforce of 195,000
20 COUNTIES – WORKING AS ONE
Integrating Community Vitality, Economic, and Environmental Strategies
Integrated Finance &FundingStrategy
Economic and Community Development
Plan
InnovationEntrepreneurship
Incubation
Connectivity Enabled Strategy
What Characterizes CONNECT SI Initiative?
• Collaborative investment in growing regional economies
• Demand driven broadband enabled innovation economy focus
• Looks at broadband role in how we work, learn, govern, compete, collaborate
• Views economic development as the job of every citizen
• Grass roots based partnership… citizens, regional and state CED
• Brings rationality to digital divide reality…insures solutions work
• Short-term win oriented…less talk and more action
• Benchmarked and measurable in every way…record of success
• Expands local CED capacities through knowledge transfer
Greater Egypt COI Strategy
Southeastern COI Strategy
Southern Five COI Strategy
Greater Wabash COI Strategy
Phase 1 Outcomes
GIS Asset Maps
Broadband Strategy
GDP & HealthcareEconomic Models
Regional Economic Strategy
Healthcare Strategy
Regional EconomicFramework
Five-Year Measurable Goals
Implementation &Funding Plan
GIS Mapping Team Supports COI’s
HealthcareProviders
COI Strategy
Network Providers
COI Strategy
Connect SIRegional CED COIStrategy
© ViTAL Economy 2007
Phase 2
PHASE 1 ROADMAP - 07/01/06 – 12/31/07STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
IMPLEMENTATION
Proposed Goals: Relationship to Connect SI
>$2 BillionNew Annual
Wages
41,461 Existing Jobs
>$5,000/Yr
27,298 NewHi-Wage Jobs
$642 MillionNew KBE Activity
1,600+ Firms
+4500 Families with Healthcare
Coverage
Lift 10,000 Citizens Out Of Poverty
$200 Million Information Technology Investment
Connect SI Goals
7,571 NewHi-Wage Jobs
>$250 millionNew Annual
Wages
$20 Million Information Technology Investment
How theHealth
COISupports Connect SI
=Win
Healthcare
WinPeople
WinCommunity
+4500 Families with Healthcare
Coverage
Lift 10,000Citizens Outof Poverty
Jobs, Wages,Insurance, New
Enterprises
How Connect SISupportsHealth
Interests
Current Healthcare COI Vision Statement
• Supporting the collaboration and interconnection among healthcare providers and patients to improve:
– Healthcare access – Connectivity Team
– Health outcomes – Outcomes Team
– Provider profitability – Profitability Team
– Qualified healthcare workforce in Southern Illinois –
Critical Skills Team© ViTAL Economy 2007
INDUSTRY-BASED COI’S-Healthcare -Network Providers
Connect SI Network Providers
Illinois CenturyNetwork
NETWORK PROVIDER PROGRESS
INDUSTRY-BASED COI’S-Healthcare -Network Providers
1. COI GOALS - BROADBAND REGIONALLY AVAILABLE IN 5 YEARS
- 54% TAKE RATE AMONG SI ADULTS2. CONDUCTING A PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN AROUND THE
VALUE OF BROADBAND IN THE HOME AND BUSINESS
4. DEMAND AGGREGATION INITIATIVES-170 ADDRESSES NEAR MT. CARMEL, ILLINOIS-LAKE OF EGYPT HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION-90 ADDRESSES IN CAIRO, ILLINOIS-WORK UNDERWAY IN FIVE OTHER
COMMUNITIES-IWantMyBroadband.com
3. GIGABYTE BANDWIDTH ACCES TO SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITYFOR ACCESS TO NATIONAL LAMBDA RAIL/INTERNET 2/I-WIRE
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GIS MAPPING PROGRESS1. SUPPLY/DEMAND INFORMATION
- SERVICE AVAILABILITY- FACULTY/STAFF/STUDENT DATA- BROADBAND REQUEST SYSTEM- INFRASTRUCTURE ASSETS
*FIBER ROUTES*TOWERS incl FCC DATA
2. HEALTHCARE DATA- 672 ASSETS- TRANSPORTATION ROUTES-NETWORKING PHYSICIANS WITH
HOSPITALS
3. TOURISM ASSETS PENDING AVAILABILITY OF DATA
INDUSTRY-BASED COI’S-Healthcare -Network Providers
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THANK YOU FORYOUR INTEREST!
Kathy Lively, Executive Director Rex Duncan, Director ofConnect SI Community Development(618) 998-0970, ext. 237 (618) [email protected] [email protected]
Frank Knott, President Kim Harber, Co-ChairViTAL Economy, Inc. Network Provider COI(410) 321-1484 (217) [email protected] [email protected]
Brad Housewright, Co-ChairNetwork Provider COI
(303) [email protected]
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