broadband and community resilience : measuring impact
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Broadband and community resilience : Measuring impact. Fiona Heesen ( [email protected] ) Pioneering Communities Seminar, April 24, 2013. Outline. Background Resilience Community broadband and resilience Impact Evaluating broadband. Background. Resilience. What is resilience? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Broadband and community resilience: Measuring impact
Fiona Heesen ([email protected])
Pioneering Communities Seminar, April 24, 2013
Outline
Background
Resilience
Community broadband and resilience
Impact
Evaluating broadband
Background
Present Future
Rural resilience
Digital services
Economics
Geography
Rural Planning
Community led
broadband research
Past
Resilience
What is resilience? The ability for a community, group or individual to adapt to
change
Fig 1: Transitional ruptures, readjustment and recovery
From Wilson, 2012, p. 57
Community broadband
Two key stages to community-led broadband
1. Designing and developing the network2. Implementation of technology
Relationship with resilience?
1. Use of Internet2. Process-based capacity building
What is ‘impact’ and how do we measure it?
Impact can be broadly defined as: ‘the demonstrable contribution that a process or innovation
makes to society and the economy’
Measuring? Understanding impact metrics
Evaluation I
Understanding ‘real’ impact
Process Developing your outcome areas
Taking control of your research agenda and your story
Evaluation II
Community Scale
Social Economic
Individual Scale
Social Economic
Research Process
• Users• Identify a community’s expectations of both the organisation and the inclusion of superfast broadband
infrastructure• Governance
• Identify skills needed, used, gained throughout the pre-connectivity process as a broadband initiativePre-connectivity
Interviews
Post-connectivity Interviews
• Users• Analyse the potential resilience attributed to the inclusion of superfast broadband
• Governance• Identify characteristics from the process of implementing superfast services that influence resilience of that
community
Background Context Setting
• Using secondary data, understand context (may involve surveys and so on)
Heesen, F. 2013
Community BroadbandScotland
Evaluating the CBS programme
Importance of playmakers
Questions?