2. DAY 2- BANDWIDTH LEAD
RURAL REGENERATION
Impact of Cybermoor
The business case for rural broadband
e-health - Alston Hospital
Coffee
Lessons from Cybermoor
National Context
3. EVALUATING CYBERMOOR
Action Research
Academic partners
Students
Consultants
Project reporting
Performance monitoring
5. ECONOMIC
25% use PCs to work from home – 7.4% national
average
26 jobs created
Economic value to Alston is over £300K
SMEs supported with e-commerce, website
design and general advice
6. EDUCATION
Two thirds of adult population improve their ICT
use
7. SUMMARY IMPACTS
OF
New jobs created
Inward investment as businesses move in
Basic ICT skills embedded in the community
Better performance by schools
Better use of community resources
8. THE SUSTAINABILITY
CHALLENGE
Lowest wages in the UK
High cost of delivering broadband
“Middle mile” bandwidth costs
£10 /Mb / month in Manchester
£266 /Mb / month in Alston
Low propensity to take up technology
13. DECISION MAKING
Members of the community were
asked to choose and prioritise 5
out of a total of 18 identified
schemes.
14. SUMMARY
Bandwidth lead regeneration delivers benefits
across the community
Innovative use of technology
Delivers better public services to people
Economic impacts –money stays local
BUT
Barriers to further development can only be
supported by government
