Digital Needs and Readiness Assessment – Macon County

Welcome to the Digital Needs and Readiness Assessment

Based on SNG’s experience of what it takes to move a community, region, or state through a broadband initiative, this ten minute assessment covers questions decision-makers should be asking and next steps they should be taking when considering broadband and digital infrastructure investments.

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Next Steps in Your Path Forward

To help you make the right decisions based on your needs and circumstances, no matter what stage you are at in the process, SNG has worked with network engineers and builders to develop a path forward that is streamlined, saving you time and money, so that your residents and businesses have the broadband they need to stay and thrive.

Below is an overview of how we can help you based on your needs and at what stage you are with broadband, digital infrastructure and transformation:

SNG recommends starting with the Community Broadband Toolkit which is designed to help communities establish, or improve digital infrastructure and broadband services for the benefit of their residents, businesses, and municipality. The Toolkit builds upon SNG’s research studies and takes lesson learned from successful broadband projects conducted across North America.

• SNG News

  • Press release – Joint White Paper on Options to Bridge Broadband Gaps in Unserved and Underserved Areas
  • Broadband funding is coming – but when and with what conditions? Can we wait for it?
  • It’s Time for Private investment in Community Digital Infrastructure
  • Unserved, underserved, or future ready – do your businesses and households have the broadband they need?
  • Choice for Localities – wait for broadband, or invest in your digital future
  • Do you need a “survey” or another “study” for your broadband initiative?
  • Where do we put our efforts to get connected with broadband?
  • Broadband and Household Income
  • Telework and Accessing the Workplace
  • SNG’s analysis featured in ISE Magazine

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• Research Findings

  

  Increasingly, broadband
  creates jobs.
  Over the last five years, job creation enabled by the Internet has doubled.

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