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Google bid organizers target mall for project support
FARMINGTON, Mar 20, 2010 (The Daily Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
Organizers of the Farmington bid for Google's proposed gigabit-per-second Internet network are hoping to reach a broader audience by taking the pitch to the Animas Valley Mall.
Proponents of the project will be at the mall's center court today and Sunday offering anyone interested in the project a chance to film a video telling Google why it should consider Farmington when selecting communities to establish an experimental gigabit-per-second fiberline Internet connection.
If selected by Google for the trial, Farmington could get Internet access between 62- and 100-times faster than established connections.
"We just wanted to get out there and get in contact with a lot of real people," said Karen McPheeters, director of the Farmington Library and an organizer of the Google bid. "This is a way they can participate in the nomination process. We're going to be out there, we're going to be taking digital photos, making videos and loading them into YouTube. It's a way for the general public to give a shout-out to Google."
The materials collected will be submitted to Google to help demonstrate the level of community support for the gigabit-per-second Web project.
Community leaders over the next week are expected to complete an application with community information due to Google by Friday. To supplement that community application, organizers have focused efforts on getting residents to nominate Farmington online.
In a final push for new
nominations in the week before Google's deadline, visitors to the library will be encouraged to use the public computers to vote for Farmington.
"The main thing we are trying to do is to reach a bunch of people to get them to nominate us," said Jack Little, chairman of the mayor's Google task force.
More than 1,800 people typically use the Farmington Library on a daily basis and any effort there to add nominations could draw interest, Little said.
"It's just a part of this nomination process, which is a part of the overall process," he said. "I'm not at all sure from Google's viewpoint how they're going to evaluate any of that."
Community leaders hope establishing one of the nation's fastest Internet connections in Farmington could drive future economic development with new technology-driven industries that allow people to work around the country through top-quality Internet access.
James Monteleone: jmonteleone@daily-times.com
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