aSTEAM Village's Digital KC Now project receives
the Broadband Communities Cornerstone Award
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About the Cornerstone Award
Each year, a committee of industry leaders, analysts, and writers selected by Broadband Communities votes to bestow a half dozen or so Cornerstone Awards to private developments, municipalities, communities, companies, and individuals with outstanding accomplishments in the area of delivering telecommunications for the benefit of the end user. Since 2004, Cornerstone awards have included recognition for the most notable deployments of Fiber-to-the-Home in the U.S. and abroad. Cornerstone Awards were originally established in 1989 as the Diamond Tier Awards and presented as recognition of achievement to companies providing cable services to the MDU industry (condominiums, apartments, hotels). The Cornerstone Awards have been expanded to include and recognize achievements in broadband and telecommunications for all communities and municipalities, including residential multifamily (apartments, campus housing, active adult communities) and planned communities (multi-home developments, renewed urban areas). |
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COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT
BROADBAND, DIGITAL ECONOMY, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
Digital KC NOW is an initiative that brings broadband internet access and the educational support needed to utilize the internet and its resources to neighborhoods while building a community of knowledge workers.
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City publishes Crossing The Divide:
What We Learned from a Disconnected Neighborhood
Co-Authors Community, Wendell Phillips Neighborhood Association and aSTEAM Village
Broadband equity and connectivity are essential in community infrastructure
therefore this project will bring internet point-to-point service where it does not exist today while simultaneously encouraging the adoption of the internet from providers where it does exist today for the betterment of the community and lives of the citizens in the community.
The City of Kansas City supports the initiative to provide equitable internet access and technology-focused education to under-served communities where there is a disparity on physical wired connections and an understanding of how to use the internet. The 3rd District community of Kansas City will act as a pilot for the initiative.
The City of Kansas City supports the initiative to provide equitable internet access and technology-focused education to under-served communities where there is a disparity on physical wired connections and an understanding of how to use the internet. The 3rd District community of Kansas City will act as a pilot for the initiative.
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Through Digital KC NOW
educating people on how to use the internet is key to improving lives: access to healthcare and education, enhancing business performance, and raising the area’s median household income. The ability to utilize the internet affects people’s access to education, career opportunities, remote work, public health information, and up-to-date news and therefore is an important part of this program.
aSTEAM Village
will hire, train and mentor a workforce from the community to create knowledge workers right here locally in the 3rd District. In fact, aSTEAM Village’s RedTails program is an essential component of the digital workforce team. A knowledgeable population has greater earning capabilities, financial stability, and public health outcomes. Using technically trained citizens of the 3rd District, means the community will lead the charge of education, healthcare and workforce development for the participation in the 21st Century economy.
