Broadband And Technology Strategies

CSPP Readiness Guide for Living in the Networked World
http://www.cspp.org/projects/readiness/  

National Center for Small Communities
Getting Online 2.0: a small-town guide to creating 21st-century communities
http://www.natat.org/ncsc/NewResources.htm   (To get a free copy, send an email to info@wvconnectivity.net)

Intelligent Community Indicators
Intelligent Community Forum
http://www.intelligentcommunity.org/html/indicators.html

Rural America’s Emerging Knowledge Economy
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 2005
http://www.kansascityfed.org/RuralCenter/mainstreet/MSE_0505.pdf

Nebraska Information Technology Commission
Is Your Community an Information Age Community?  (A quiz for initiating community discussions)
   http://nitc.nol.org/toolkit/workbook/2004/quiz.pdf
Community E-Readiness Assessment:

• Section I:  Community Leadership and Support (Also available in Word)
• Section II: Economic Development and E-Commerce (Also available in Word)
• Section III:  Telecommunications Infrastructure (Also available in Word)
• Section IV:   Technology Literacy and Access (Also available in Word)
• Section V:  Advanced Technology Training (Also available in Word)

Community Guide To Broadband Development
Blandin Foundation
http://www.blandinfoundation.org/html/public_bb_guide.cfm

The Rural E-Commerce Extension Initiative:
A National Demonstration Project
http://srdc.msstate.edu/ecommerce/