Lenexa, KS
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The City of Lenexa, Kansas, has deployed a metro-area mobile and fixed-wireless broadband network to connect government buildings, municipal vehicles, traffic signals, and video cameras. Funding was made available through Lenexa’s involvement in Operation Greenlight, a 19-city, multi-agency collaborative effort in greater Kansas City to reduce pollution and create savings through improved traffic flow.
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Macedonia Connects
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In 2004, USAID launched a nationwide initiative in Macedonia, a country the size of Vermont, to connect 460 schools to the Internet. An e-Schools project had provided 5,400 computers to the schools, but Internet connectivity was an unmet challenge. Internet access at the time was on the order of 200 euro for a broadband account, and the country had only a 2% broadband penetration rate. At the same time, the telecommunications environment in Macedonia was highly predatory. A first objective was to change the regulatory environment, and in January 2005, new telecom laws allowed alternative bandwidth solutions other than from the monopoly. Next was to ensure that the network reach into the countryside. Vendor selection was announced on April 21, 2005, and the network was completed by September 1.
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Piedmont, Italy
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In 2002, a consortium of 54 members embarked on a five-year plan to bring total digital inclusion to 1,200 municipalities facing a long-term digital divide, including more than 600 villages with populations below 1,000. "The main need is to reduce the digital, technological, and cultural divide; it's not only a problem of technology but of culture," said Margherita Italiano of CSI Piemonte, which is responsible for the technical implementation of the program.
Similar to the well-known Basque Government deployment operated by Euskaltel in Spain, the infrastructure is owned by government and operated through a public-private partnership, including some 16 service providers at the last mile.
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South Korea UbiCity
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U-City, or Ubiquitous ICT City, is Korea’s 21st-century ICT-mediated city in which advanced ICT infrastructure and ubiquitous information services are integrated into the city space, providing high convenience and quality for everyday city life, highly secured and well managed city environments, and creation of new business. The u-City project will become the center of the government and private sectors’ effort to sustain growth in the country’s economy: It is creating ICT-converged construction industries and securing the growth phase of the ICT industry by maximizing the synergy between the world’s top-level ICT infrastructure and the most active city construction industry in Korea. Local governments have been laying out several u-City’s such as Seoul’s Digital Media City and Incheon’s New Songdo City projects.
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