Announcement
Middle Mile Workshop
October 3, 2011
Raleigh Convention Center
500 South Salisbury Street
Raleigh, North Carolina 27601
Hosted by U.S. UCAN
Attendees: Individuals involved the NTIA / BTOP awards who are interested in meeting
and working with their colleagues from other awards to address issues, best
practices and building relationships with other award winners.
Cost: There is no cost to attend this workshop
Time: 8:00 am to Noon
Registration: Registration is required so that we can ensure appropriate space and
arrangements. You can register for the workshop by sending an email to:
Please include your full name, institution, title and your BTOP project.
You will receive a confirmation of you registration by return email.
Agenda: The Draft Agenda follows. Experts from the Community Anchors such as
Health, Libraries, Museums and Public Safety will join us for this workshop
and government officials from NTIA and other agencies are expected to be
present.
Middle Mile Workshop
Hosted by U.S. UCAN
October 3, 2011
Raleigh, North Carolina
Draft Agenda
George Loftus of OSHEAN will be the emcee for the meeting.
8:00 Welcome
Laura Dodson (NTIA/BTOP) (invited)
Mark Johnson
8:15 Federal programs and goals including BTOP, U.S. UCAN and IGNITE
Mark Luker (Invited)
Networking and Information Technology
Research and Development (NITRD)
Laura Dodson (NTIA/BTOP) (invited)
9:15 Work groups each to consider an assigned topic relating to working with
the government programs to meet the goals and still be successful.
Topic areas might include:
Mutual outreach to Anchor Institutions
Meeting unfunded expectations
Messages to elected officials
Etc.
Each group will give a report of the key points they discussed
10:00 Break
10:20 Discussion with Community Anchor Experts to address
issues, needs and opportunities
Public Safety
Health
Libraries
Museums/Arts
Each Work Group will consider and report on the needs and
approaches for their community. Topics will be recommended such as:
Establishing SLAs
Tailoring outreach messages
Etc.
11:20 Open discussion of legislative and other challenges to the BTOP programs.
11:45 U. S. UCAN Task Force on Economic Models Final Report