Kansas Health Institute’s latest research demonstrated with online county-by-county maps that broadband deficits and computer ownership gaps plaguing Kansas were intertwined with social and demographic influences.
The director of the Kansas Department of Commerce’s Office of Broadband Development has been forced out for saying the ”wrong thing to the wrong person,” she says.
Kansas officials worry the state will lose part of its share of a $42.5 billion federal investment in broadband expansion because the Federal Communications Commission commissioned a “grossly inadequate” map of existing services.
Daniel Friesen doesn’t want geography to be the determining factor of whether Kansas communities have access to high-quality broadband service.
