Community Broadband Plans

Let's Connect Forums took place in 7 communities in June 2019

The Community Broadband Plans (CBP) project methodology was founded on design principles set-out by Connected Communities BC, weaving together a combination of diverse skill-sets; technical network engineers with community facilitators.

7 communities within the regional district were visited throughout a two week block in June of 2019. Presentations from guest speakers and videos showcasing possibilities for a digital future while gathering ideas from the community about their current state of use as well as plans for housing, economic, environmental and social developments took place at the Let’s Connect CBP forums.

An open discussion followed the presentations and participants provided a great deal of information about the current state of connectivity in their community as well as how improved broadband might be utilized to address community challenges and opportunities.

The information gathered from the Let’s Connect CBP forums has created a unique snapshot of the community’s digital readiness and aspirations. This snapshot will be provided to last-mile broadband infrastructure solution designers to develop a plan based on the community snapshot along with analysis of the community’s topography, climate, housing density, location of key institutions. In this way, the infrastructure is informed by the community aspirations amongst other important technical considerations.