Category: Presentations
Jim Baller, “Seven Important Next Steps for Gigabit Communities,” Gigabit Communities Summit, Kansas City, MO Jan. 13, 2015
Jim Baller, “Broadband and Economic Development: Fact or Fiction,” TATOA Policy and Legal Track, Seabrook TX, Oct. 24, 2013
Jim Baller, “How to Comply With Key Federal Regulatory Requirements,” SHLB 2014 National Conference
Sean Stokes, Casey Lide, “Key Legal and Regulatory Issues Affecting Community Broadband Projects,” Broadband Communities Economic Development Summit, Springfield, MA, Sept. 16, 2014
Sean Stokes, “Leveraging Your Assets and Creating Partnerships for Building Fiber: It’s About the Poles, Stupid,” Broadband Communities Summit, April 16, 2013
Key Legal and Regulatory Issues Affecting Community Broadband Projects – Broadband Communities Summit, Austin, TX, April 10, 2014
The Killer App: Economic Development and Job Creation
By Jim Baller
Economic development has been the “killer app” of community broadband, particularly fiber-to-the-home projects, during the last fifteen years. What’s more, economic development is likely to become an even more powerful driver of community broadband in the years ahead, as our knowledge of the relationship between high-capacity broadband connectivity and economic development continues to grow and mature, and as the lessons learned from the federal broadband stimulus program, Google fiber, Gig.U, and other gigabit initiatives work their way across the nation. This paper examines what we know about the relationship between broadband and economic development today, what we are likely to learn in the months and years ahead, and what this means for our communities and our nation.
Opening Keynote, NTIA-OneCommunity Workshop For BTOP Awardees – Cleveland, Ohio, October 5, 2011
The E-Rate Program: Recent Changes and a Case Study – NATOA Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, September 20, 2011
Social Networks: An Insurable Risk for Local Governments – NLC-RISC Trustees Conference, Washington, DC, June 12, 2011
Going Big with a Gig at Case Western Reserve University
Some still question whether we need FTTH networks, suggesting that modest copper upgrades will be fine for most over the next 5-10 years. When it comes to essential infrastructure, the idea that we should “cut costs” by operating right on the margin usually ends poorly — and costs more, particularly in lost opportunities.
Social Networks – International Municipal Lawyers Association, New Orleans, LA, October 12, 2010
American Public Power Association Legal Conference – San Francisco, CA, October 10, 2010
Pre-Conference Communications Seminar, American Public Power Association Legal Conference, San Francisco, CA, October 10, 2010