II: Vital, Frustrating Connectivity, and the Rural/Urban Divide with Scott Turnbull, US Ignite

Our second episode in RIoT Underground's three-part series with Scott Turnbull - we focus specifically on internet connectivity and the growing rural/urban divide - plus some exciting things municipalities are doing to fight back. Don’t miss it!Scott Turnbull is an information technology leader with 25 years in academic, government, and non-profit IT leadership. He has helped lead the Smart Gigabit Communities effort under US Ignite, initiating and growing the program in each of the 27+ partner communities across the US and in Australia. He co-authored several of the US Ignite Smart City Guides and Playbooks, and runs numerous national technology challenges and reverse pitch events. Prior to coming to US Ignite, he served as the Technical Section Chief for regional joint response teams in Public Safety. He has led efforts to build several national digital repositories for University consortiums and been the head of academic software engineering at Emory University under their libraries system. He is also a veteran of the US Army Intelligence Corps.US Ignite is a national effort to promote US leadership in the development and deployment of next-generation applications on ultra-fast, programmable networks with the potential for significant societal impact. Originated by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and led by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in partnership with other federal agencies, US Ignite leverages NSF investments in the Global Environment for Networking Innovation (GENI) by integrating academic campuses that have GENI technology with research backbone networks and numerous broadband cities across the United States. Through the US Ignite effort, NSF and other federal agencies will bring together science and innovation to explore next-generation internets at scale and create a national innovation ecosystem that will have profound, long-term social and economic impacts.Support the showProduced by: RIoTLearn more about RIoT: https://riot.org/Newsletter Sign-Up: http://tinyurl.com/ncekm63mFollow RIoT on social mediaInstagramTwitterFacebookLinkedin