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Case Connection Zone in the WSJ

The project we’re working on here at CWRU was written up in the WSJ today.  Unfortunately I can’t link to the full article, as it’s behind a paywall.

In it Lev Gonick (the CIO of CWRU) explains that we’re working on figuring out the recipes for success of ultra high-speed connectivity.

“What do you DO with a 1G connection?”

That is the question.

Now for some answers.

What we launch in late May ‘10 won’t be the final answer, but it’ll be a beginning.

By combining advanced health, energy, education and safety services, a personalized News page and a social network, with blogging, activity streams, live-video help, groups with media sharing we hope to start to answer the question.

Now throw in some compelling local content and services and you’ve got yourself a full fledged ultra high-speed dashboard 2.0.

And that is what is required of every Digital City.