ONE Group Partners with ViTal Economy Consulting in Southern Illinois Economy Development Initiative
This was posted on Friday, February 23rd, 2007 by Neil Gamroth.ONE Group Consultants L.L.C. has joined InterVistas, Vancouver, BC and Vital Econony, of Riderwood, Maryland, in a sweeping effort to revitalize a 24 county region in Southern Illinois called “CONNECT SI”.
Project Overview
Connect SI is a 20-county effort to collaboratively enhance the economic and community development efforts throughout Southern Illinois using greater Internet access and bandwidth to communicate regionally and globally. This project isn’t about broadband internet access. It is about improving the quality of the lives of Southern Illinoisans by changing the way we work, live, and communicate with the world.
This project will affect many sectors of life in the region. Healthcare delivery, business and industry, education and training, government, agriculture, – even our own homes – can benefit from greater accessibility and visibility through a successful Connect SI project. Greater efficiency and access to broadband Internet services can mean more profitability for those who wisely use the increased availability of greater bandwidth.
A successful Connect SI project provides new national and global markets for our goods and services including tourism. By effectively using the Internet as an increasingly important medium for promotion and information sharing, Southern Illinois businesses, industries, and destinations have the potential to gain literally millions of prospective new customers.
In short, by increasing broadband Internet availability and bandwidth throughout Southern Illinois, the Connect SI project seeks to provide a dramatic and positive result for the entire region. For the past few years, we have talked about collaboration – the concept of one Southern Illinois community. Now we are presented with a project that offers not only the opportunity to act collaboratively, but also to see a payoff for that collaborative behavior for the entire region.
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