Connect Iowa and IARC Join Forces for Local Impact

Leaders from across Iowa are back home this week with a critical new mission: Revive their communities through broadband expansion. Members of Councils of Governments (COGs) from across the state are now taking charge of bringing broadband to their communities. They took part in an intensive training last week on all things Internet. Connect Iowa in partnership with the Iowa Association of Regional Councils (IARC) offered the so-called “broadband university”. Participants got a crash course on how to begin broadband expansion at their local level through Connect Iowa’s new “Connected” community certification program. “Connect Iowa’s...