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SubcommitteeoftheCityCouncilandSchoolBoard | 2016-06-27 | 7 | The East Bay Broadband Roundtables addressed different aspects of the Broadband Strategic Framework: Roundtable One: Broadband Infrastructure and Economic Development. Roundtable Two: Digital Inclusion, Telehealth, and Social Services. Roundtable Three: E-Education and E-Government, including citizen participation, emergency services, and public safety. Each of these Roundtables provided input on those aspects of an overall Strategic Plan that the Roundtable addressed. By the completion of the third Roundtable, EBBC had developed a first approximation draft Strategic Plan for the East Bay The Funders' Forum obtained the response of funders to the draft Strategic Plan in preparation for presentation of the Strategic Plan at the First East Bay Broadband Summit. At the same time, EBBC commissioned Tellus Venture Associates to produce a set of maps assessing Broadband coverage in the East Bay for residences and businesses and providing a grading system for evaluating residential service in the different counties and cities Along with keynotes from Sunne Wright McPeak, President and CEO of the California Emerging Technology Fund and Kish Rajan, Director of the California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, the East Bay Broadband Summit received presentations on the Broadband maps and grading system and on the Strategic Plan. The Summit discussed and responded enthusiastically to the maps and the Strategic Plan. The Strategic Plan is structured as two primary initiatives: 1. The East Bay Broadband Infrastructure Initiative (addressing Broadband Infrastructure, Economic Development, and E-Government). 2. The East Bay Connects Digital Inclusion Initiative (addressing Digital Inclusion, Telehealth, Social Services, and E-Education). INSIGHTS The East Bay Broadband Strategic Plan and its two initiatives are guided by a set of insights that emerged from the Roundtables and the Mapping Project: 1. East Bay Broadband Infrastructure is slightly above average for California, but substantially behind world leaders. According to the evaluation done by Tellus Venture Associates, the region gets a "C" rating overall. There are some interesting new models emerging-such as the Lit San Leandro fiber ring providing up to 100 mbps Broadband to business users-and some significant gaps. In general, there is an important opportunity to move the region into more of a leadership position in relation to Broadband infrastructure. 3 | SubcommitteeoftheCityCouncilandSchoolBoard/2016-06-27.pdf |