| ||||||||||
 
Dr. Ronald P. Rogers CHIROPRACTOR Support for your body's natural healing capabilities 270-384-5554 Click here for details 
  
Columbia Gas Dept. GAS LEAK or GAS SMELL Contact Numbers 24 hrs/ 365 days 270-384-2006 or 9-1-1 Call before you dig 
Visit ColumbiaMagazine's Directory of Churches Addresses, times, phone numbers and more for churches in Adair County Find Great Stuff in ColumbiaMagazine's Classified Ads Antiques, Help Wanted, Autos, Real Estate, Legal Notices, More... 
|
Connect Adair County releases plan to help growth of internet Next Connect Adair County meeting. 9:30am, Tuesday, June 27, 2006, CT. LWC dining center Novel element of plan has been to develop community centers with high tech facilities. Report says Kentucky led nation in last two years in increased internet usage. By Sage Cutler, ConnectKY advisor to ConnectAdairCounty technology group A group working to make internet more accessible and to increase internet usage in Adair County has released a comprehensive plan to encourage and assist local citizens cope with learning the new medium and to help overcome problems they might encounter. Connect Adair County, a group of local volunteers, recently completed a road map for technology-based growth and development during a months-long meeting process. The Connect Adair County members include: Mike Akin - Adair County Schools; Duane Bonifer - Lindsey Wilson College; Carolyn Edwards - City Clerk of Columbia; Tom Fisher - Knifley Area Volunteer Fire Dept; Mark Harris - Columbia Police Department; Martin Jones - Columbia-Adair County Industrial Foundation; Doug McCammish - McCammish Manufacturing; Tracy McCarol - Adair County Sheriffs Department; Jerry Quinn - Westlake Regional Hospital; Darrell Treece - Adair County Schools; Jerry Vaughn - Adair County Fiscal Court; Ed Waggener - Columbia Magazine; and Eric West - Duo-County Telephone The Adair County group has been meeting regularly at Lindsey Wilson College, and brought the plan together with assistance from ConnectKentucky, a non-profit group. The Connect Adair County report makes recommendations for technology-based improvements in nine sectors of the community: Business and industry; healthcare; libraries; K-12 education; higher education; community-based organizations; government; agriculture; and tourism, recreation and parks. Connect Adair County will work on projects identified as the top priorities for the next year and a half. Three projects have been given priority by ConnectAdairCounty. Increase Technology Awareness and Education. Organize existing technology classes and offer new ones, with the goal of increasing the computer usage rate in the county.The ConnectAdairCounty report includes dozens of recommendations for future steps, such as increasing online commerce, using teleconferencing to let high school students listen to guest lecturers at Lindsey Wilson College, and considering online auctions for livestock and commodities. The meeting process is part of Kentucky's Prescription for Innovation: Delivering Broadband Technology for a 21st Century Kentucky, a plan to ensure that every Kentucky household has access to high-speed Internet by 2007. The plan ultimately aims to increase the number of high-tech companies and jobs in Kentucky. ConnectKentuckys local project manager, Sage Cutler, will continue to work with local volunteers as they implement the plan.Adair County Judge-Executive Jerry Vaughan said that some parts of the county "desperately need and want" broadband service, and that satellite providers could be a good option for them. Providing Internet access for everyone is an extremely important project, not only for Adair County, but for various other underserved areas in our state, Vaughan said. Were very proud of the effort that the governor is making to provide access to our residents, and were looking forward to the projects success. Kentucky has begun to experience a technology turnaround as a result of recent efforts. And the turnaround has been very evident in Adair County. The Federal Communications Commission reports that in the past two years, Kentuckys growth rate of broadband subscribers led the nation. Currently, 32 percent of Kentucky adults subscribe to broadband Internet service, a number that is closing the gap to the national average of 33 percent. Additionally, the number of Kentucky households that have the ability to subscribe to broadband increased from 60 percent in 2003 to 77 percent in 2005. High-speed Internet technology promises to enhance the economy and quality of life in Adair County. For example, doctors can remotely monitor patients with chronic illnesses, working parents can complete their college degrees by attending classes online and small businesses can sell their products worldwide. Already in Kentucky, broadband service is being used to remotely arraign prisoners in state courts, to web-cast high school athletic games and to conduct biotech research in a rural county. Employers who located thousands of jobs in Kentucky attributed their decision to the availability of high-speed Internet. For more information, or to participate in future meetings, please contact ConnectKentucky Project Manager Sage Cutler at 270-781-4320 or email scutler@connectky.org. About ConnectKentucky: ConnectKentucky is a non-profit alliance of businesses, government entities and universities working to promote technology-based economic development in Kentucky. By leveraging the latest in technology and networking, ConnectKentucky is ensuring that Kentucky remains the place of choice to live, work and raise a family. Through our work, Kentucky has been recognized as a national model for technology development. For more information, please visit ConnectKentucky.org. This story was posted on 2006-06-01 10:12:59
Printable: this page is now automatically formatted for printing.
Have comments or corrections for this story? Use our contact form and let us know. More articles from topic Technology News:
Adair County leaders launch technology plan REMINDER: ConnectAdair will hold next meeting Tuesday, April 4, 2006 Schools to offer Internet Safety Workshop Tom Fisher has proposal for broadband community center at Knifley DW Swanner giving up on Alltel DSL; flying off, yonder, to Wildblue ConnectAdair will hold next meeting Tuesday, April 4, 2006 Broadband meeting at Cranmer this morning NPR story tells about low-cost, boot straps broadband in rural areas LETTER: D.W. Swanner offers suggestion to solve Adair Internet problems Here's some tips on finding stories, photos, which have scrolled off front page View even more articles in topic Technology News |
 
115 Jamestown St. Columbia, KY. 270-384-2496 
  
   
 Provided by the Adair Co Fiscal Court and the Adair Co. Emergency Mgt. Agency 
|
||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
|
Quick Links to Popular Features
Looking for a story or picture? Try our Photo Archive or our Stories Archive for all the information that's appeared on ColumbiaMagazine.com. | ||||||||||
|
Contact us: Columbia Magazine and columbiamagazine.com are published by Linda Waggener and Pen Waggener, PO Box 906, Columbia, KY 42728. Please use our contact page, or send questions about technical issues with this site to webmaster@columbiamagazine.com. All logos and trademarks used on this site are property of their respective owners. All comments remain the property and responsibility of their posters, all articles and photos remain the property of their creators, and all the rest is copyright 1995-Present by Columbia Magazine. Privacy policy: use of this site requires no sharing of information. Voluntarily shared information may be published and made available to the public on this site and/or stored electronically. Anonymous submissions will be subject to additional verification. Cookies are not required to use our site. However, if you have cookies enabled in your web browser, some of our advertisers may use cookies for interest-based advertising across multiple domains. For more information about third-party advertising, visit the NAI web privacy site.
| ||||||||||
