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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"broadband infrastructure"”.
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Evaluating barriers to and impacts of rural broadband access
"The lack of adequate broadband infrastructure persists in many rural communities. Beyond funding, additional barriers persist, such as digital literacy and community-level self-efficacy. As a result, the first contribution articulates barriers at the organizational level. This work proposes a …
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The Last Mile of Broadband: Estimating the Economic Impacts of Connect America Fund Initiative
… massive subsidies to facilitate the expansion of broadband infrastructure: The Connect America Fund Phase II Program. This program incentivized telecommunications carriers to provided broadband access to high-cost areas in the United States (typically rural and other underserved communities). I …
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Extending broadband past the urban fringe with wireless mesh : a strategic analysis with policy implications for Kenya's Universal Service Fund
… a bottleneck in the extension of affordable broadband outside major cities. In this work we explore the business case for small-scale wireless mesh networks as a means to implement demand-driven, bottom-up growth of broadband infrastructure on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Under the …
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Exploring the Feasibility of a Strategic Alliance Approach to Telecommunications Provision in Rural Municipalities
… require means for obtaining access to affordable broadband infrastructure and services to meet their economic development, education, and quality of life objectives. Due to the comparatively low potential for return on investment in serving isolated rural communities, the private sector …
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Connecting Communities: Factors Influencing Project Implementation Success in the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program
… indicators for project implementation success in broadband infrastructure projects funded by the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP), part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). Key performance indicators for project implementation success were …
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Beyond the Tall, Tall Trees: Exploring Land and Digital Literacy in Rural Appalachia
… the ways land impacted their access to digital infrastructures and internet access and presented the following questions: how does land impeded access and support access to broadband infrastructure in Giles County? How does land impact what digital literacies residents in Giles County pursue, …
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Decolonizing Nunavut's Art Market
… How can community-first ICT policies and infrastructure disrupt the status quo of the declining colonial Inuit art market in Nunavut? First-mile infrastructure development and equitable high-speed broadband, which do not currently exist in the territory, are required to promote and support …
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Understanding the threat of cybercrime: A comparative study of cybercrime and the ICT legislative frameworks of South Africa, Kenya, India, the United States and the United Kingdom’
As broadband infrastructure investments in developing nations intensify and barriers to accessing the internet diminish, the more they increasingly become the quintessential destination for cybercrime. For their lax cyber laws and general cybercrime illiteracy, developing nations such as South …
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Towards the development of an optimal SDN controller placement framework to expedite SDN deployment in emerging markets
The challenge of poor broadband penetration in emerging markets is generally attributed to the high cost of deployment and operations for broadband infrastructure. Operators are more comfortable to rollout infrastructure in urban areas than in rural (i.e. remote, sparsely populated and low income) …
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Digital Infrastructure Policy and Small Business Digitalisation: Evidence From the UK Gigabit Broadband Rollout During Covid-19
This thesis examines the causal impact of digital infrastructure and grant policies on firm digitalisation using comprehensive panel data from 1,514 UK firms over 2017-2022. Observing the staggered geographic rollout of the UK government's £5 billion Project Gigabit broadband infrastructure …