The first part of a three-part series on the pieces of necessary infrastructure required to build digital economy ecosystems in rural America.
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As part of its efforts to support economic resilience, the Vermont Community Foundation invested $250,000 in a partnership with the Center on Rural Innovation to fund CORI's digital economic strategy services in five Vermont communities.
With entrepreneurship assistance from the Black River Innovation Campus (BRIC) in Springfield, Vermont, Kanav Setia channeled his skills into an education and research platform called qBraid he hopes can accelerate the quantum computing revolution.
What to know about how public-private partnerships work for broadband networks, as well as tips and best practices to consider when embarking on a project in your community.
To effectively provide telehealth services where they are needed most, broadband deployment must remain a priority. Without it, post-pandemic telehealth services have the potential to fall back to serving as nonessential.
Scalable tech entrepreneurship is, in some ways, the apex of a tech economy ecosystem. Startups are a key source of job creation, and the ones that scale can transform a community and create regenerative wealth.
For a rural place to become an entrepreneurial center, people need to actively believe it’s possible — and that everyone, from all racial, gender, educational, class, and professional backgrounds are truly included in those tech opportunities.
Communities need to be able to connect capable workers with opportunities in the technology industry. This requires them to have a sufficient mix of locally based tech employers and remote work opportunities.
For a tech economy ecosystem to thrive, it needs tech workers. That means having people trained on the technology skills — from cybersecurity to front end development, data science to UI, and many more.
Capital is at the core of a tech ecosystem: it’s what enables entrepreneurs to get their ideas off the ground and ultimately scale their products and services.