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Why does Adair County need broadband internet access?
Doug McCammish suggested four drivers for Adair County to make use of the internet. He writes: 1). EDUCATION -- kids with homework will drive households to have a computer and want to have decent access for research purposes. Teachers will increasingly require research after normal school hours and the Internet is the way to do it. In Adair County, we probably have an affordability issue here forboth the PC and broadband for many K-12 parents. At what point can a teacherlegitimately "require" after school Internet research? K-12 homework research is probably a major driver toward the "Community Center concept"promoted by L.E.A.D. Adair's Tom Fisher of the Knifley community. He said that while the county library has a few PCs with good access available to people, but it doesn't make sense for someone in Knifley or Breeding to drive 20-30 minutes to the library and find all the PCs in use. Maybe what we need are "library extensions" in the former grade centers / community centers. Getting broadband communications to those community centers won't be easy, but easier than to many homes. 2). AGRICULTURE information and data submittal. I am not a farmer, but I'll bet thedata submittal requirements on a farmer are pretty high. I know they are for the smallbusiness in which I'm involved. Enabling more and more interaction via the computerwould seem to be pretty high on the priority list since it means being able to do thosechores when time is available rather than during business/farming hours and doing itwithout driving to town. I"m sure UK is way ahead of me, so maybe they can tell us the level of participation in the county and whether there is demand for higher bandwidth. 3). LOCAL GOVERNMENT SERVICES supplied on line in the same way as the agriculturalinterface above. This would include paying taxes, renewing licenses, even paying thewater bill. 4). ON-LINE SHOPPING to save $ on Gas. We discussed this briefly in the meeting. Our culture needsto change to get away from dependence on gasoline from outside the U.S. and changing our ways to get more delivered or travel less often is part of it. Right now, many of theon-line merchants are adding very low margins to their goods but making a profit on theshipping and handling. Maybe that needs to change. One comment about a grocery delivery service sounds like a real opportunity for some enterprising soul. I know it has been tried in cities, but I don't know about the county. Doug can be reached at: dmccammishjr@mccammish.com This story was posted on 2005-09-02 11:57:58
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