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Blog // Connect Iowa

05/31/12

The COGs of the Iowa Broadband Wheel

By Jeremy Thacker

Iowa is getting Connected at full-throttle! Thanks to our partnership with the Iowa Association of Regional Councils (IARC), more than two dozen Connected kickoffs have now been held in all corners of the state. “The goal of this project is really to educate our communities and to promote broadband and increase access and adoption throughout Iowa,” says IARC Executive Director Nichole Warren. “We’re working with our member local governments to identify a community champion, community leaders, and really help our member local governments create and establish technology committees within their counties and cities to promote broadband.” Iowa’s...

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01/20/12

Connect Iowa and IARC Join Forces for Local Impact

By Jeremy Thacker

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...

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