Town of Tillsonburg Economic Impact Case Study
Client: Industry Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Town of Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada.
Project: Reviewed economic impacts from adoption of the Town’s Strategic Technology Plan of 1999, involving convergence of operations with implementation of information technology systems and applications.
Conducted: December 2002 – February 2003
Results: Revealed demonstrable ROI, with $2.1M in benefits outweighing the $1.3M in costs as of December 2002. SNG developed model for local governments to determine what kind of IT investments should be made, what the value of those investments should be (based on population, number of municipal staff, etc.) and what kind of cost savings and return on investment they can expect from IT and broadband.