bradley holt: connecting communities (gigabit city summit)

Connecting Communities:

Burlington, Vermont

Gigabit City Summit

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Bradley Holt <bradley.holt@us.ibm.com>

Developer Advocate, IBM Cloudant

@BradleyHolt

About Me

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• Co-Founder & Technical Director, Found Line, 2005–2014

• Creative studio (print, web, mobile) located in Burlington, Vermont

• Worked with mission-driven and nonprofit organizations

• Recipients of the Vermont Tech Jam 2014 Ambassador Award

• Community Organizing

• Code for America Brigade Captain with Code for BTV

• Project Director for the Civic Cloud Collaborative

• Chair of the BTV Ignite Community Working Group

• Author, speaker and facilitator

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About Me (cont'd)

• Recently joined IBM Cloudant as

a Developer Advocate

• IBM Cloudant is a globally

distributed data layer for web

and mobile applications

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Burlington Telecom

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• Initially provided telecommunications services to City buildings

• Started offering residential service in 2005

• Began offering gigabit service in late 2012

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Triple Play or Infrastructure?

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• Burlington tried to build its own cable company in the 1980s

• Many saw Burlington Telecom as a cable TV company

• How to demonstrate the true value of the fiber-optic network?

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BTV Gig

• Gigabit Salon & Gigabit Tweetup

(December, 2012)

• Outreach to Mozilla Ignite, Gig.U,

Free Press, Institute for Local

Self-Reliance and US Ignite

• Burlington's Gigabit Opportunity

(March, 2013)

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Code for America Brigade

• Launched with National Day of

Civic Hacking in June of 2013

• Close to 100 participants in five

major hackathons, regular

meetups and other events

• Projects include:

• Lakecraft

• Vermont Music Library

• "Green" Printing App

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Civic Cloud Collaborative

• Platform for public, non-

commercial Internet applications

and digital creative works

• Spearheaded by CCTV Center for

Media & Democracy

• Built with a Knight Prototype Fund

grant, donated equipment and

significant volunteer efforts

• Connected to Internet2

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Image Credit: Untitled by Gary H, on Flickr

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City of Burlington and US Ignite

Partnership

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• Officially launched in October of 2013 by Mayor Miro Weinberger

• Initiative to use Burlington’s gigabit infrastructure as a tool,

testbed, and accelerator for economic, educational and

community benefit.

• Draft BTV Ignite Playbook Executive Summary released in

October of 2014

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Bradley Holt <bradley.holt@us.ibm.com>

Developer Advocate, IBM Cloudant

@BradleyHolt

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