This 10-year Telecommunications Plan published in 2021 by the State of Vermont provides a roadmap to achieving telecommunications goals such as bringing to all unserved and underserved on-grid homes scalable 100/100 Mbps service, facilitating competition, promoting local input and oversight, and ensuring that systems are resilient, redundant, secure, and future-proof.

This 2020 broadband plan from the State of Utah summarizes the history of State broadband initiatives and outlines strategic goals and initiatives to continue to steer the course of deploying and expanding broadband in the State. These initiatives include maintaining existing infrastructure, connecting and upgrading services to schools and libraries, and continuing efforts to connect healthcare sites through the Utah Education and Telehealth Network (UETN).

In this video, two officials from West Lafayette, Indiana—Chief Innovation and Collaboration Officer David Broecker and Vice President of Innovation and Technology Troy Hege—lay out their vision for a neutral host infrastructure in the city. They hope the project will spark competition and innovation, including building out a private cellular network and Wi-Fi access for new services.

This video features Syracuse, New York, Deputy Commissioner Jennifer Tifft discussing the city’s effort to develop a multi-year, smart city roadmap with near-term pilot projects. The projects are designed to collect data from new sensors and camera-based systems. She also describes the city’s priorities and why the local government is investing in digital infrastructure.

In this video, Philadelphia Smart City Director Emily Yates talks about data privacy, the digital divide, the need for public-private partnerships, and Philadelphia’s pitch and pilot program. She also discusses why the city is partnering with US Ignite and mentions the challenges the city is hoping to address with through technology.

In this video, Mayor David Berger of Lima, Ohio discusses the importance of railway infrastructure in Lima, but adds that railway crossings can lead to traffic congestion. Mayor Berger talks about partnering with several state agencies, network provider Spectrum, and US Ignite to create and test a system of sensors as a potential solution for rerouting vehicles and minimizing backups.

This video features Matt Sayre of Onward Eugene (Oregon) explaining how his city is looking to build on three years of digital infrastructure growth, including partnering with nearby Springfield. He discusses the investments the City made pre-pandemic to keep students connected and how teaming up with multiple local entities is improving the community’s post-pandemic economic recovery.

This video from February 2021 details use cases Arlington County, Virginia’s, Safety and Innovation Zone Demonstration project will explore, and how technology could help officials respond to emergencies faster. Arlington’s Assistant CIO for Strategic Initiatives Holly Hartell discusses privacy safeguards, such as a new privacy panel the county is putting in place.

This playbook from US Ignite shares the experiences and lessons from community leaders and on-profit partners as discussed during the Smart City Connectivity workshop on 2019. Leaders discuss how to fit connectivity into the context of community planning, how to partner with the private sector, and developing pathways for scalable projects.

This resource is a collection of lessons gathered from US Ignite's 2018 workshop on deploying wireless networking equipment, small cell sites, public Wi-Fi, and Internet of Things sensors. The playbook combines insights from local government, industry, and nonprofit organizations.

US Ignite introduces the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program, a program aimed at enhancing broadband connectivity across rural areas by accelerating the nation’s wireless innovation ecosystem and spreading experimental wireless communications research. Each research platform conceived under the PAWR program will enable at-scale experimentation by supporting the geographic size, technical diversity, and user density representative of a small city or community.

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US Ignite, through its Smart Gigabit Communities (SGC) program, describes how it supports select communities in creating local and national partnerships to provide tools for building smart community strategies, applications, Requests for Proposals (RFPs), and sustainability plans to help drive new services, startups, jobs, and innovation investments.

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This tool is a partnership between US Ignite and the City of Portland to provide small businesses with a free, accessible open-source tool that uses city and federal data combined with real-time data from sensors, demographic data, and traffic data so the businesses can make informed decisions about choosing their locations. The tool can deliver significant value to the development community, allow local policies to incentivize development decisions, and enhance recovery for the community.

This resource presents excerpts from a conversation between US Ignite Director of Community Development Lee Davenport and Gigi Sohn of the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy. Sohn provides an overview of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework Bill (BIF) and outlines key federal funding insights for smart communities and cities.

This interview with Tim Lucas of SaverLife focuses on how digital inclusion can help low-to-moderate-income Americans reach financial stability. Lucas discusses how the influx of finance-based technology, including online banking and smartphone apps that answer questions about personal finances, can help people save money.

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