“Make your Front Porch your Front Office”: That is one catchy slogan used by Clarkson University to promote the “Forever Wired” initiative, aimed at bringing broadband to the Adirondack Region in upstate New York. Not just to promote broadband, but also to develop outreach educational programs on the use of technology, to encourage telecommuting, to incubate local entrepreneurs, and in the end to ambitiously develop an environmentally sensitive region in an eco-friendly manner.
The Adirondack Park is known for its beautiful lakes, mountains, and quality of life. But so is Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, and Aspen. The broadband deployment project and the business incubation programs are interesting, but what’s the fuss? After all, we are talking about a very sparsely populated area, with only 120,000 permanent residents over 6 million acres. Why should we care?
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