January 1 - March 31, 2010
Broadband Mapping:
- Purchased hardware and software.
- Prepared sub-contract work orders.
- Refined information security policies and procedures.
- Negotiated and executed non-disclosure agreements with broadband service providers.
- Requested, received, reviewed and integrated data from broadband service providers.
- Completed statewide cable and DSL availability modeling by census block.
- Refined broadband data models.
- Refined data verification, web site development and civic engagement plans.
- Created web surveys for community anchor institution data collection.
- Performed field verification and data collection.
- Submitted interim statewide broadband availability, middle mile and community anchor institution datasets to the NTIA on March 31.
Broadband Planning:
- Hosted a municipal broadband forum to establish a collaboration framework.
- Developed outreach strategies.
- Continued development of a community contact database.
- Coordinated with other broadband initiatives in western Massachusetts.
- Finalized a sub-award contract for WesternMA Connect.
- Assisted with the preparation of WesternMA Connect partner contracts with Regional Planning Agencies and scopes of work.