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Understanding Community Broadband: The Community Broadband Toolkit has been designed for use by Alberta communities to assist in developing broadband solutions. The toolkit is organized into three general sections - learning about broadband, thinking about broadband, and planning broadband. Together these sections aim to identify the key knowledge and actionable steps that a community and its leaders can use to develop and achieve local broadband solutions. The toolkit also contains case examples of broadband solutions from communities across the province. The Toolkit was made possible by funding from the Government of Alberta - Economic Development and Trade.

It is widely recognized that broadband is of fundamental importance to the social and economic development of a nation. The focus of the paper is on infrastructure-related actions; measures to stimulate demand for broadband are, therefore, only marginally addressed. This paper aims to provide a platform for debate with the Russian counterparts in the sector, and to discuss the measures needed to develop broadband in support of actions aimed at economic growth. This paper examines the broadband market in Russia and preconditions for its sustainable development. It begins by presenting arguments demonstrating the importance of broadband to the overall economic development of Russia, including from the perspective of diversification of the economy and new job creation. The paper benchmarks Russia s broadband performance with Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) comparators, as well as with other nations leading the way in broadband diffusion. The paper takes stock of the existing broadband market structure in Russia and its main players as they stand today, including the regulatory and legal environment of the market for both fixed and mobile broadband. Finally, the paper provides a set of recommendations that addresses the issue of sustainability in Russian broadband delivery, and how it can continue its acceleration in the years to come.

The broadband society and its citizens / Julian Gebhardt [and others] -- Identification of community practices and co-creation by pre-adolescents : the case of Ketnet Kick / Tim Van Lier and Jo Pierson -- Design and communication for local development : technologial decisions in collaborative scenarios / Beatriz Galán, Maidana Andrés Lega, D.I. Pedro Senar -- Social sciences information user behaviour and searching strategies in multifarious environment / Marina Borovik and Ludmilla Shemberko -- Teenagers on the net : generational divide, autonomy, liberty and responsibility / Sarah Gallez [and others] -- Non-users in the information society : learning from the older generation / Maria Sourbati -- Households' ICT use in an energy perspective / Inge Røpke, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen and Jesper Ole Jensen -- Attitudes toward mobile phone communication technology / Kerstin Wüstner -- Communication wear : user feedback as part of a co-design process / Sharon Baurley [and others] -- Beyond the frame : the pace of mobile and immobile media / Larissa Hjorth

This entry has been realised in the framework of the H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018 project "LoGov - Local Government and the Changing Urban-Rural Interplay". LoGov aims to provide solutions for local governments that address the fundamental challenges resulting from urbanisation. To address this complex issue, 18 partners from 17 countries and six continents share their expertise and knowledge in the realms of public law, political science, and public administration. LoGov identifies, evaluates, compares, and shares innovative practices that cope with the impact of changing urban-rural relations in five major local government areas: (1) local responsibilities and public services, (2) local financial arrangements, (3) structure of local government, (4) intergovernmental relations of local governments, and (5) people's participation in local decision-making. The present entry addresses the structure of local government in Germany. The entry forms part of the LoGov Report on Germany. To access the full version of the report on Germany, other practices regarding the structure of local government and to receive more information about the project, please visit: https://www.logov-rise.eu/. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 823961.

Understanding Community Broadband: The Community Broadband Toolkit has been designed for use by Alberta communities to assist in developing broadband solutions. The toolkit is organized into three general sections - learning about broadband, thinking about broadband, and planning broadband. Together these sections aim to identify the key knowledge and actionable steps that a community and its leaders can use to develop and achieve local broadband solutions. The toolkit also contains case examples of broadband solutions from communities across the province. The Toolkit was made possible by funding from the Government of Alberta - Economic Development and Trade. This version is a compressed version of the original toolkit.

Understanding Community Broadband: The Community Broadband Toolkit has been designed for use by Alberta communities to assist in developing broadband solutions. The toolkit is organized into three general sections - learning about broadband, thinking about broadband, and planning broadband. Together these sections aim to identify the key knowledge and actionable steps that a community and its leaders can use to develop and achieve local broadband solutions. The toolkit also contains case examples of broadband solutions from communities across the province. The Toolkit was made possible by funding from the Government of Alberta - Economic Development and Trade. This version is a compressed version of the original toolkit.

This recounting of early years of training in linguistics, queer theory and feminism around the time of the 1996 Berkeley Women and Language Conference examines the role of simultaneities and resonances in the formation of a critical, productive if still inchoate transdisciplinarity. Such a transdisciplinarity managed to thrive in and around institutional delimitations; it owed a great deal to the inevitability of tensions in the affective politics of scholarship, a somewhat underattended dimension of intellectual life in the university. Ao revisitar anos iniciais de meus estudos em linguística, teoria queer e feminismo que ocorreram concomitantemente ao Berkeley Women and Language Conference de 1996, este artigo examina o papel de simultaneidades e ressonâncias na formação de uma transdisciplinaridade crítica e produtiva, embora rudimentar. Tal transdisciplinaridade vingou em e ao redor de delimitações institucionais; e deve muito à inevitabilidade das tensões na política afetiva da academia, uma dimensão pouco examinada da vida intelectual na universidade.

Offers a solution for poor countries looking to overcome the digital divide & provide telecommunications service to the millions without it. Instead of investing in the expensive laying of fiber-optic lines & the other elements of the high-capacity "backbone" of telephone networks, developing nations should invest in two new technologies that offer a quick solution: wireless-fidelity networks (Wi-Fi), or small low power antennas, & voice calling over the Internet (VoIP). Developing nations must also avoid telecommunications monopolies -- government or private -- to make telephone service affordable & accessible. To do so they must renationalize network backbones, operated on a nonprofit basis, & allow private companies to provide service to consumers. Ultimately, the renationalization of network backbones will level the playing field for competition. M. James

How should we measure broadband adoption by individuals and communities, given different modes of access, including home broadband, smartphone use, and public access? We measure online activities and indicators of skill to understand opportunities for digital citizenship, or participation in society online. Based on a 2011 survey in Chicago, we find more mobile phone adoption among Blacks than among non-Hispanic Whites, and greater likelihood of Internet use for job searches among residents who rely primarily on smartphones to go online than among home broadband adopters. Yet our analysis also shows that broadband at home remains critically important for digital citizenship, and that the growth in mobile phone use has not erased inequalities in participation online and seems unlikely to do so. Moreover, smartphones are not bridging the gap in disadvantaged communities. Multilevel statistical models show inequality in both Internet access and economic and political activities across geographic areas, or communities. Technology disparities that are patterned by place have implications for opportunity and equity at the neighborhood level.