A description of Thundercloud, a nonprofit looking to build a 585-mile fiber network in the nine-county Advantage Valley region of West Virginia. The network will reach underserved areas, boost economic development, and connect anchor institutions.

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This paper studies the impact of broadband on the economic growth of rural America between 2001 and 2010. The results suggest that high levels of broadband adoption in rural counties positively impacted growth, while low levels saw businesses close and greater unemployment numbers.

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Conducted through a literature study, this paper analyzes the impact of broadband spending and deployment initiatives on economic growth. The authors believe that the impact was positive, but several challenges in their research meant that they could not reach definitive conclusions.

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A paper from January 2018 that highlights research related to the impact of broadband and its applications on economic development, migration and civic engagement, education, telework, telehealth, smart cities, and agriculture.

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The National Tribal Broadband Strategy proposes a roadmap for federal action and investment in broadband access and adoption for Tribal communities. It proposes specific activities that the federal government can undertake within the categories of coordination, data, network infrastructure, funding, permitting, broadband adoption, and economic development.

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The Nevada State Broadband Connectivity Strategy is a strategic plan for Nevada to deploy additional broadband infrastructure and close the digital divide. The chief recommendations for reaching the state’s goal of universal broadband access focus on supporting disadvantaged communities, investing in infrastructure, and modernizing state government online services to better serve rural, low-income citizens.

This report includes case studies from four Native Nations that created their own internet service providers. It includes a discussion of challenges to building internet infrastructure that are unique to Tribal communities, and includes best practices for Native Nations, lending institutions, and the federal government when it comes to Tribal connectivity.

This report summarizes the 2018 Indigenous Connectivity Summit and its key takeaways.

This report summarizes the 2017 Indigenous Connectivity Summit and its key takeaways.

This report discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a number of trends in broadband, leading to a significant wave of public-private collaboration.

In this blog, the National Governors Association showcases how Governors are creating new jobs and workforce development opportunities to capitalize on new investments in broadband infrastructure and adoption.

This report shows how the United States is behind other developed countries when it comes to gigabit speed broadband, both in terms of coverage and adoption. The piece examines why public intervention has not led to better results, with a focus on the need for the country to move from vertically integrated operators to wholesale fiber networks that lease capacity to service providers.

The 2021 Wisconsin State Broadband Plan succinctly lists the goals and strategies the Public Service Commission has for broadband in the State. It aims to make high-performance broadband in Wisconsin more accessible, resilient, competitive, and affordable through strategies like data gathering, infrastructure investments, partnership and capacity building, and a digital equity and inclusion framework.

This State Broadband Plan from West Virginia, published in 2019, reviews activities to date of the West Virginia Broadband Enhancement Council and sets the Council's goals for facilitating broadband deployment while outlining numerous strategies to meet those goals.

This 2020 State Broadband Office report from Washington defines the 2024-2028 state broadband goals of high speed access for all by 2024 and 150/150 Mbps symmetrical speeds by 2028 and makes recommendations for how to meet these goals. It also provides an overview of the current state of broadband in Washington and provides examples of successful past initiatives.