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From Amanda Laverman:The first Iowa Broadband Summit: Empowering Communities was held Tuesday, April 9 in Des Moines and the video is now available!The event had more than 100 attendees eager to discuss the state of broadband and Iowa’s future. Connected Nation's Tom Koutsky opened with the Iowa Broadband Landscape. He touched on the Supply, Demand, and Consumer and Social Welfare of broadband. He also spoke of the importance of broadband as the world becomes an information economy full of knowledge workers.“Diffusion of knowledge exchange is becoming critically important,” said Koutsky. “Every generation...

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Over the last few months, Connect South Carolina has been working with IT-oLogy, an IT talent and workforce development collaborative, to present “IT-oLogy Connections 2013 in partnership with Connect South Carolina” this Thursday, May 16. This event will share advances in hardware, software, infrastructure, and processes across a variety of industries and highlight efforts to increase broadband access, adoption, and use.Confirmed presentations and speakers include James Ashley, an expert on Microsoft Kinect for Windows; Steven Naifeh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and modern artist; Tom Ferree, Connected Nation President/COO, to...

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