Tag: KC Digital Drive

Gigabit City Summit

Gigabit Summit leader: ‘People look to Kansas City for answers’

By Tommy Felts / May 13, 2016

So you’ve got gigabit-fast — roughly 1,000 megabits-per-second — internet speeds. Now what? That’s a question the Kansas City-hosted Gigabit City Summit will help communities from across the U.S. answer. The summit — organized by KC Digital Drive and set for May 16 through 18 — is back for round two thanks to popular demand after…

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SXSW

Startland News hits the road to SXSW

By Tommy Felts / March 10, 2016

Load up the clown car — Startland is going down south. Kansas City’s source for entrepreneurial and tech news is venturing to arguably the nation’s top conference for innovative ideas: South-by-Southwest Interactive. The Startland team has a jam-packed schedule while at SXSW, mingling with techies, early-adopters and thousands of Austonians. Make sure you follow along on…

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Deacon: Kansas City evolving into a digital laboratory

By Tommy Felts / January 4, 2016

Cities have become veritable technology ecosystems where data is amassed from almost everything, from air quality and rainfall patterns to traffic flow and the availability of parking spaces. As we become more familiar with the all-encompassing term “smart city,” we can begin to experiment with the futuristic-but-practical applications for all this data, creating the concept of…

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Kansas City to play tech teacher again with gigabit conference

By Tommy Felts / December 4, 2015

Kansas City’s years of experience with gigabit will once again allow it to play Internet instructor. Thanks to popular demand, non-profit organization KC Digital Drive announced that it will host the second-annual Gigabit City Summit May 16 – 18. The summit will welcome dozens of cities to learn from Kansas City’s experience with gigabit Internet…

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Google Fiber

KCK: First for Google Fiber, close to last for connectivity

By Tommy Felts / September 23, 2015

Despite being the first city to land Google Fiber, Kansas City, Kan., still made the list of the worst-connected cities in 2014. Not only did the city make the list — it made top 10. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance aggregated the list from the 2014 American Community Survey data released by the U.S. Census Bureau last…

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