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.

A video of Greensboro (North Carolina) CIO Jane Nickles discussing connecting unconnected households and how the pandemic exposed gaps in broadband coverage for local students. She also discusses the city’s partnerships with US Ignite and the fiber provider Segra, along with building connected cities in the Triad region of North Carolina.

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 set of recommendations proposes establishing an advanced wireless strategy to accelerate 5G deployment while developing next generation wireless technologies across America. This resource addresses the challenges of advancing 5G technologies and examines the proposed actions and necessary investments.

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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A report from May 2013 that presents an overview of successful practices used by state Departments of Transportation to facilitate broadband deployment along highway rights of way. It identifies wireline broadband deployment approaches and recommends state incentives for usage of conduit and rights of way, resource sharing to reduce deployment time, and dig once policies.

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This May 2019 report outlines the challenges to increasing high-speed broadband access throughout the State's rural areas. It discusses some of the methods South Dakota will use to work towards its goal of increasing the availability of 25/3 Mbps speeds, including business-friendly regulatory practices, allocation of state resources, and public-private partnerships.

This fact sheet outlines the key strategies of Pew's Broadband Access Initiative: raising minimum speeds, ensuring long-term funding, improving accountability, addressing affordability, and defining a role for each level of government.

This interview with Doug Dawson, president of CCG Consulting, focuses on the rural broadband market. The topics discussed include who provides service in those areas, what the challenges are for expansion, and how these networks are funded.

From Broadband USA, an introduction to effective public-private partnerships for broadband investments provides an overview of common broadband partnerships, the factors communities should consider in developing a successful partnership model, and the tips and best practices NTIA has observed. Best practices include establishing a diverse project team, defining broadband network requirements, performing an inventory of existing and planned assets/services, and performing feasibility studies.

This resource from Broadband USA, published in 2016, presents planning steps necessary to create a community broadband roadmap. The goal of the resource is to help communities expand broadband access locally to create jobs, improve educational opportunities, promote economic development, spur private investment, and facilitate the delivery of essential social services.