Advancing Community Broadband
Thursday, October 17 at 12PM CT

Illinois Extension is hosting a webinar that will focus on nuances in rural broadband development.

Advancing Community Broadband will highlight exemplary cases of what we call Community Broadband. The cases will
Demystify broadband development
Provide strategies for working with existing local ISPs and legacy broadband providers
Educate the public about starting up communityowned ISPs, specifically through the lens of the utilities coop sector, where over 200 of the nation’s 900 electric coops have developed a number of strategies for starting new, communityowned ISPs.

Dr. Keith Taylor, Associate Professor of Cooperative Extension & Community Economic Development from University of California (UC Davis), is originally from rural Central Illinois. He holds a PhD in Human and Community Development from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, and is affiliated with Indiana University’s Ostrom Workshop, and is a cofounder of the Electric Cooperative Innovation Center.