This study assesses the potential of Marshall, North Carolina as a viable destination for technology business labor sourcing and makes a final recommendation to the USDA. It illustrates the need and gap in high performing broadband, and its role in supporting a nascent tech sector. It details the available technology workforce in the region, and the active role played by local businesses and institutions in supporting the growth of a developing tech sector.

Old South, New South, Old News...Meet the Digital South. History’s industrial crossroads meet at the Enterprise Mill sparking a dramatic technology-based economic transformation in Augusta, Georgia.

An impending tidal wave of residential development threatens Chatham County’s character and core values in 2016. Does the county ride it, or oppose it, and can they win doing either?

A DIGITAL FUTURE FOR APPALACHIA
Duke University's Bass Connections panel explores new economic possibilities for Western North Carolina

Aerial Appalachia! America’s future takes flight over The Crooked Road in a culturally rich region you probably haven’t heard of...

This article, published by ICMA, highlights the intersection of public policy, economic development, and private sector entrepreneurship in transforming rural economies

Economic development is vital to broadband success, and broadband it vital to economic development. Despite their dependencies, many rural communities miss an opportunity to accelerate their efforts to grow and modernize by failing to collaborate.

There are thousands of public utility districts in the United States, whose unique attributes can accelerate the deployment of next gen electric and broadband in rural communities.

Improving Rural Kentucky’s Economies at the Speed of Light - how it all works together broadband, gov’t, tech, and economic development converge to create transformational economic change in eastern Kentucky

Telehealth improves much more than just health outcomes in rural Mississippi, where the Magnolia State is blazing the trail of innovation

5G offers the promise of high performing wireless to millions of US telecommunications consumers. Does this mean that fiberoptic cable is threatened? What does 5G mean for rural communities?

Rural America is diverse. And minority economic empowerment is a goal of many rural communities. No one has done it better than this group in Oregon, who has used technology to change its economic and educational fortunes, enabling it to advance its heritage through innovation. Find out who and learn more at TheRatr.com this week!