Arizona Broadband Stakeholder Network
Webinar January 23, 2020

About Webinar   Program      Registration     Presenting Organizations

Why Should You Should Attend?
Hint: You Are A Stakeholder!

Broadband Needs In Arizona

As you know, broadband internet access is a critical infrastructure for community development and the health, safety, welfare, educational advancement, and economic prosperity in Arizona communities. ​Unfortunately, many tribal, rural and other under-served communities in Arizona do not have fast, reliable and affordable broadband access. And many Arizona citizens still do not have the technology and skills to participate effectively in the Networked World.

Arizona Is Getting Connected! Are You?

Arizona is on the move to get our schools,
libraries and communities connected.

Attend the Webinar to get an update on Arizona’s broadband progress, strategies, plans and even new technologies being developed in Arizona to facilitate broadband deployment to rural and under-served communities. Find out about some of Arizona’s great companies and resources.  Learn more about the Broadband Stakeholder Network and what we can do for you.

Get connected to the Network and the  Webinar!
If you are a state or local government official or public policy maker, rural community leader, or you represent economic development, education, local or state government, health services, public safety, libraries, telecommunications and technology companies, you are a stakeholder and should plan to attend the webinar and Get Connected with the Arizona Broadband Stakeholder Network.

We invite you to connect with us for this first in a series of webinars. FYI, on May 28 we presented the first  Stakeholder Roundtable. Over 90 public, private and nonprofit stakeholders registered to attend representing economic development, education, local and state government, health services, public safety, libraries,  telecommunications and technology companies, and more.

Who Should Attend?
Representatives of Stakeholder Groups:

• Councils of Government
  
• The Arizona Rural Development Council
• The Arizona Commerce Authority
• Regional Economic Development Organizations
• Local and State Libraries
• State and local government entities
• Community Broadband Planning Councils
• Telemedicine
• Public safety
• Education K-12 , universities and community colleges
• Nonprofit organizations
• Technology and telecom providers working on telecom deployment
• ​More

Featuring

Steve Peters, Coordinator, Greater Arizona Educational Leadership and Arizona Broadband Stakeholder Network

Jeff Sobotka, Vice President and State Broadband Director, Arizona Commerce Authority

Tony Casella, Managing Director, and Jim Logan, Sales Director, Simply Bits, So. AZ largest Fixed Wireless Internet Service Provider

Ricardo Platt, Director, Business Development & Sales for ED2 Electronic Design and Development Corp. ED2 is developing low-cost equipment for emerging 5G data networks.

 About the Arizona Broadband Stakeholder Network
ATIC, the Arizona Telecommunications and Information Council, and GAZEL, the Greater Arizona Educational Leadership organization are leading the development and coordination of AZBSN, the Arizona Broadband Stakeholder Network. We are collaborating with our many partners such as the Arizona Technology In Education Association, the Arizona State Library, the Arizona Telemedicine Program, the Arizona Technology Council, and the City Of Cottonwood, as well as other government, education, nonprofit organizations and technology providers.

The Network provides Arizona public, private and nonprofit stakeholders opportunities to collaborate on initiatives and strategies to accelerate deployment of affordable and reliable Broadband Internet access in communities throughout Arizona, and to enable those communities to utilize those connections to: support 21st Century education, create jobs and support economic development; train a 21st century workforce; enhance public safety and health care and; connect their citizens to the world.

Stakeholders will come together to build a constituency and enable collaboration, coordination, information sharing and communication. They will learn something new, share what they know, make connections with other collaborators, find resources and help for their initiatives, and hear about and provide updates on federal, state and local initiatives in Arizona.

The Network may lead to collaborative projects, development of joint grant applications, sharing of funding opportunities and other resources, aggregation of demand at the state and local level, policy discussions and recommendations, etc. ​

About The Network

In cooperation with other business, government, education ​​and community organizations