This white paper provides an objective analysis of the potential economic benefits from investment in enabling broadband infrastructure and promoting the increased implementation of Internet-enabled applications and processes in Minnesota.

An assessment built to answer the Blandin Foundation’s question, “What do we need to know to do better?” The Blandin Foundation strives to understand its impact in communities through the Blandin Community Broadband Program (BCBP) as it invests in digital literacy skills and affordability programs.

This resource briefly details the benefits of constructing open-access, middle-mile networks to provide savings that spur last-mile providers to build further and faster. These open-access, middle-mile models promote private investment and competition.

This Broadband Plan, published in 2018, outlines the history and current state of Arizona’s broadband programs and sets goals and policy recommendations for the future of its broadband development. The plan also examines case studies of initiatives taken by other states.

A policy brief arguing for increased competition and broadband deployment to address issues faced by residential and small business customers. The resource focuses on the construction of open-access, middle-mile networks as a solution.

A paper from October 2020 that reinforces the themes of the previous year’s Broadband for America’s Future: A Vision for the 2020s about the need for ubiquitous broadband across the United States. The author takes into account how the Covid-19 pandemic has accentuated the digital divide on geographic, racial, and class lines.