The University of North Carolina, Asheville; zoom recording from today’s Fab Friday event, available for playback on YouTube.
Time Indexed Links
See the time-indexed topic links in the YouTube description of the video linked above.
00:01:58 – Partnership with UNC Asheville
00:03:19 – WNC Broadband Current Projects
00:04:53 – Broadband Basics
00:08:23 – Increasing Reliance on Broadband – Education, Finance, Online Productivity, Healthcare, Government Forms, Working at Home, Social Impact
00:10:13 – Internet Traffic Volume Globally in Exabytes per Month
00:10:57 – IoT, Internet of Things
00:11:32 – New Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, WiFi as a Foundation
00:13:26 – Multiple Broadband Delivery Systems
00:13:58 – Satellite Service, Starlink
00:14:21 – Fixed Wireless for WNC Mountains
00:14:43 – 5G Cellular
00:16:03 – Broadband Infrastructure Buildout Underway
00:17:01 – BEAD – Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program
00:17:17 – NC Public Infrastructure – MCNC
00:18:00 – NC Public Infrastructure – Backbone – ERC Broadband
00:18:45 – Fiber is coming
00:19:16 – Broadband is a Private Commodity, Not a Public Utility
00:20:47 – 2020 Internet Data for Buncombe County
00:21:18 – NEMAC Map of Terrestrial Internet Service in Buncombe County
00:21:49 – State of NC Efforts to Close Divide
00:22:13 – Local Broadband Inclusion Initiatives
00:22:58 – Claire Tomlinson – WNC Broadband Current Activities, Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP)
00:29:27 – Yvette Brooks, Through the Trees – https://throughthetrees.us/index.html
00:40:11 – Karen Sanders, Rock Star of Healthcare
00:41:05 – NC’s Aging Population
00:43:15 – Seniors are on the internet
00:43:47 – Using internet for telemedicine
00:45:24 – Karen’s internet experiences as an RN Patient Advocate
00:52:27 – Passwords
00:54:03 – Seven top questions requiring broadband access – Why are patients and families are asking for help in healthcare?
00:59:40 – Summary of Key Questions on Broadband and Telehealth
01:02:42 – Suggested Virtual Resources for Training or Learning – https://www.diglit.net/2022/12/virtually-connectivity-resources-for.html
01:03:32 – NORAD Starlink Demo
01:05:12 – Grand Summary
Many thanks to OLLI at University of North Carolina Asheville for hosting this event.