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Next-generation broadband has enormous impacts on communities. PSI Group consultants guide communities through the process of addressing the complex challenge of planning for the future of technology.

A plan for how best to grow as technology changes learning and earning possibilities is essential. And many communities have not yet considered how broadband deployment will affect their planning. In order to have a viable plan, a community must understand where it stands in the continuum of communications to ensure that it is not left on the wrong side of the digital divide.

PSI consultants were principal authors of the Corporation for Network Initiative in California's (CENIC's Gigabit or Bust Community Readiness Guide. The CENIC Guide was designed to aid in collecting important planning information, using this guide provides you with an opportunity to educate community members on the value of broadband and its place in your community.

The CENIC Guide is designed to provide a benchmark of a community's current readiness to participate in the enormous economic, social, governmental and personal changes that high-speed communications entail. More importantly, the guide provides a vision of specific steps and actions communities-government, businesses, schools, community groups and citizens-can take to benefit from these changes. The guide revisits groundbreaking and internationally utilized work developed by the Computer Systems Policy Project.

PSI is developing the information gleaned from these community exercises into a resource that contains several aspects:

• Emergent best practices in telecommunications and technology planning
• Case studies of successful processes
• Regulatory and policy implications of technology and telecommunications planning

This information will be posted in this space as this work continues.