DigitalC
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Our region was built on a 20th Century manufacturing base, and now faces the challenge of transitioning to a digital economy. How can a region collaborate to catalyze technology for community impact?
DigitalC is a new collaborative effort to bring together civic and tech leaders to craft regional digital agendas. To harness the power of big data, apps and services to reshape priorities and solve our most challenging problems. To harness our sense of place to connect, inspire and ignite creativity and innovation.
DigitalC CEO Lev Gonick is pictured with students from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, an initial focus of DigitalC's efforts. Info: DigitalC.org, and follow @DigitalC_org.
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The W. 25th corridor is getting a huge internet upgrade thanks to OneCommunity's Big Gig Challenge Grant, which offered up to $2 million in a 25% match towards project construction and equipment costs.
One of this year's grants was awarded to the W. 25th Street Corridor, managed by the Stockyard, Clark-Fulton and Brooklyn Centre Community Development Office earlier this year. With an enhanced broadband network that will be able to provide speeds up to 100x faster than what an average user has in their home; the 900+ properties on W. 25th are certainly looking forward to the new boost.
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Say Hello to the newest winner of OneCommunity's Big Gig Challenge Grant: The Village of Glenwillow. Created to bring high speed broadband internet to communities and organizations, the Big Gig Challenge Grant Winners receive funding worth up to a 25% match towards project construction and equipment costs (up to a total of $2 million dollars.)
CoolCleveland caught up with the Housing Officer of the Village of Glenwillow, Peggy Spraggins, at OneCommunity's Big Gig Kick Off Party. Spraggins cued us in on how the new high speed broadband connections will be, yet another, great feature for the village's expansive business developments.
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OneCommunity's Big Gig Challenge will help shape our community in more ways than one. With three recipients this year, The Village of Glenwillow, Lorain Community College and the W 25th Corridor, Cleveland can start to see a boost in high speed broadband access as early as this Summer. OneCommunity's Executive Director, Lev Gonick, spoke with CoolCleveland at the challenge's launch.
OneCommunity is a local non-profit that provides ultra-high-speed fiber-optic broadband networks across 2,000 miles in NEO. When they talk internet, they're talking 600 times faster than what an average homeowner can access. Think of the possibilities!
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Ever since OneCommunity's [R]IoT Regional Summit, big data has been the hot topic of conversation for the past couple weeks. With such an infinate idea, obviously there's tons of ground to cover. However, a unique perspective was brought to CoolCleveland's attention by Matt Hoover, from Embedded Planet.
Embedded Planet specializes in the extraction of data collected by utilities, like medical devices, pumps or sensors. Turning data from intangible, to tangible is the name of their game, and Matt was certainly excited to share his company's prospects at the luncheon. Check out the CoolCleveland exclusive video, and catch up on the topics!
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How do we collect data, and then, how do we share that data? Many topics that were discussed at OneCommunity's [R]IoT Internet of Things Regional Summit, but for Arrow Electronic's John Kerg, this question seemed to hit home. Kerg's company specializes in supplying sensors that collect a wide range of necessary data, and this theme was certainly in his wheelhouse.
CoolCleveland Correspondent, Martin Bielat, met up with Kerg before he gave his keynote at the summit's luncheon.You could just see the excitement gleaming through his eyes—this technology summit was a great opportunity to get in front of like-minded individuals.
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The room was packed, lunches were eaten and innovation was in the air at OneCommunity's [R]IoT Internet of Things Regional Summit that happened at the Global Center for Health and Innovation. The summit was designed to bring together industry representatives, makers, and developers to collaborate on the expansive potential of the IoT.
CoolCleveland caught Jim Benson, Leader for Global Marketing at GE Lighting, before he took the stage to give his address. Benson gave us some insight into some new GE projects that the company is pushing for in 2015, in addition to how they work closely with OneCommunity.
SPONSORED: Transforming dreams into reality is becoming easier and easier in this day and age. Get together with local leaders at the OneCommunity co-sponsored [R]IoT Regional Summit and discuss the rise of technology in this inter-connected world. Hear from industry experts on Tue 4/7 @ 11:30am at the Global Center for Health and Innovation. RSVP Here: OneCommunity.org.
SPONSORED: It was a race to the top at this year's "Internet of Things Innovation Olympiad," co-sponsored by Cleveland's ultra hIgh-speed broadband nonprofit OneCommunity. The competition took place at CWRU last week, and the winners of the all female competition invented a smart responsive grocery shopping app. More here: OneCommunity.org
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Four new ultrahigh-speed broadband projects are in the works, thanks to funds supplied by OneCommunity's "Big Gig Challenge Grant." The winners: The West 25th Street Corridor, the Village of Glenwillow, Lorain County Community College and the City of South Euclid, are all looking forward to the remarkably fast internet fiber.
CoolCleveland Correspondent Marty Bielat met up with OneCommunity representatives Brett Lindsey and Liz Forester to get the details. It was great hearing about feeling the immense energy these projects have fostered in Cleveland. Just think of the ventures these organizations can accomplish now, with an over 100x faster broadband network.
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Congratulations are in order to The West 25th Street Corridor, the Village of Glenwillow, Lorain County Community College and the City of South Euclid for winning OneCommunity's "Big Gig Challenge Grant." The grant will allow these four organizations to utilize ultrahigh-speed broadband networks.
The West 25th Street Corridor will apply the funding to creating a fiber network through Ohio City, Tremont, Clark-Fulton, Brooklyn Centre and Old Brooklyn covering 900+ properties. The Village of Glenwillow will use the funds to enhance municipal operations. The City of South Euclid and Lorain County Community College strategy both involves boosting an already-completed network connection.
VIDEO: @OneCommunity launches country’s first 100-gig fat pipe and we've got the VIDEO with Asst. US Sec. of Commerce Jay Williams.
Bernie Moreno’s Collection Auto Group has expanded all throughout Northeast Ohio and is now growing into the Boston area and Florida.
His auto dealerships use OneCommunity’s Everstream service for mid- to large-size businesses to keep them running as smoothly as one of his fine luxury cars. The sales guys use iPads in the showroom, the mechanics connect each car to the internet for diagnostics, and Bernie uses Everstream to keep his expanding business running at top speed.
OneCommunity awarded Collection Auto Group with their Broadband Enterprise Innovation award, and Bernie talks with Cool Cleveland about how much he likes working with NEO-based OneCommunity. Everstream.net.
Net neutrality is in the headlines, with millions of comments being sent to the FCC over the past few weeks.
So it was excellent timing when OneCommunity awarded Gigi Sohn, the Special Counsel for External Affairs to the Chairman of the FCC their Broadband Hero Award for her lifetime commitment to universal access to the internet, airwaves and all communication channels.
Cool Cleveland caught up with Ms. Sohn at OneCommunity’s annual meeting. If you’d like to have your voice be heard on net neutrality, use this easy form on the FCC’s site here.
Of course an all-fiber optic broadband network could enrich a municipality, and now, you have the ability to bring it to your neck of the woods. OneCommunity's Big Gig Challenge will fund up to 25% of total project costs (up to a total of $2 million) for building networks that connect community anchor institutions, government facilities and business districts.
Have fun with the application! "The challenge is for them [applicants] to get creative and explore and articulate the potential opportunities and relationships that are available utilizing our Gigabit connectivity,” said OneCommunity CEO Lev Gonick. Learn more.
Listen as OneCommunity co-founder and CEO Lev Gonick and COO Brett Lindsey bring us up to speed on how they are growing NEO's digital infrastructure, and on their new Everstream project that aims to connect mid- and large-size companies to their superfast dark fiber backbone.
Hear how Northern Ohio is ahead of efforts by giants like Google to wire local communities with gigabit broadband, good news for startups and developers who can access their new Broadband Innovation Fund.\\\