[1st-mile-nm] Albuquerque Joins US-Ignite’s Smart Gigabit Communities Program

[Richard Lowenberg]

Four Major Cities Join the Smart Gigabit Communities Program

September 26th, 2016 | By Joe Kochan

https://www.us-ignite.org/blog/2016/9/four-major-cities-join-the-smart-gigabit-communities-program

Today, US Ignite announced that four additional cities have joined the 
Smart Gigabit Communities program, a network of communities that have 
each committed to leveraging next-generation smart city and Internet 
technologies to keep pace with the world’s rapidly changing information 
technology-driven economy. US Ignite is a nonprofit organization that 
fosters the development and deployment of advanced networking 
applications that will profoundly change the way Americans live, work 
and learn.

US Ignite welcomes the following cities to the Smart Gigabit Communities 
Program:
•	Adelaide, Australia (the first international city to join the program)
•	Albuquerque, New Mexico
•	Salisbury, North Carolina
•	Washington, District of Columbia

The Smart Gigabit Communities Program, which is funded largely by the 
National Science Foundation (NSF), was first announced during the launch 
of the Smart Cities Initiative last September. Working in partnership 
with US Ignite, each Smart Gigabit Community will develop two gigabit 
applications or gigabit public services that provide advanced technology 
solutions to issues faced by that community. Each city also agrees to 
share those applications with the other communities in the network.


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Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director
1st-Mile Institute     505-603-5200
Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504,
rl at 1st-mile.org     www.1st-mile.org
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