Taylor discusses advancing community broadband in webinar

Keith Taylor talks about community broadband.

“Advancing Community Broadband,” a webinar by Keith Taylor, UC Cooperative Extension community economic development specialist at UC Davis, is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=3M76vXSAk9c.

In the 53-minute webinar, Taylor highlights exemplary cases of community broadband to demystify broadband development. He provides strategies for working with existing local ISPs and legacy broadband providers.

Taylor also aims to educate the public about starting up community-owned ISPs, specifically through the lens of the utilities co-op sector, where over 200 of the nation's 900 electric co-ops have developed a number of strategies for starting new, community-owned ISPs.

Taylor, who grew up in rural Central Illinois, recently gave the presentation for the University of Illinois' Extension team. He holds a Ph.D. in human and community development from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is affiliated with Indiana University's Ostrom Workshop, and is a co-founder of the Electric Cooperative Innovation Center.

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