Cathy Emerson the Project Manager of the Broadband Deployment Center for Economic Development California State University, Chico will be speaking on Broadband.
Cathy currently manages two (2) broadband demand and supply aggregation projects for twelve (12) different counties located in northern California. Since May, she has designed and delivered more than a dozen structured meetings and workshops to acquire information from both the end-users and suppliers of broadband, as well as analyze and disseminate results of such efforts to an even broader audience. She has facilitated acquisition of maps and shape files of current coverage areas as supplied by the Internet Service Providers and Wireless Internet Service Providers, as well as been instrumental in guiding a varied and disparate group of ISPs and WISPs through the preparation of their grant proposals for funds allocated via the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA); total combined request exceeding $243 million. Meanwhile, Cathy also is responsible for managing the team responsible for data collection via 4200 completed random telephone interview surveys to identify broadband demand, results of which she will review and then use to design & deliver presentations to key stakeholders, including the project’s grant funders, ISPs/WISPs, county boards of supervisors, members of the business and residential communities, and more.
At Noon on the fourth Friday of every month we host a "Brown Bag" meeting at the Civic Center (City Hall at 777 Cypress Ave). The name of the meeting room is the "Caldwell Park Room" on the second floor http://www.ci.redding.ca.us/civcenter. The Shasta Technology Association, will provide a lunch of Pizza and refreshments to the first 20 attendees. Plan to show up early! the meetings will start at noon promptly.
Date
4th Friday of Every Month
Time
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location
Caldwell Park Conference Room
Redding Civic Center
777 Cypress Avenue
Redding, California
Contact Info
gschmidt@simpsonuniversity.edu
or for a live human:
EDC 224-4920