"Rural Economic Development by Closing the Digital Divide.(SM)"

Components:

• S3GC ICI™ Affordable Broadband  addresses the needs of the residential population of rural communities.  In its first project, S3GC plans to use its Interoperable Communications Infrastructure (ICI™) to make Broadband Internet and Voice available to all of the residents of Ontario County, New York.  Current projections indicate that broadband is available to only 54% of New York Households.
• S3GC ICI™ eAgriculture™ Starting at Cornell's New York State Experimental Research Station, S3GC plans to create an agricultural showcase (at the acre level).   The project will combine wireless sensors with the S3GC Interoperable Communications Infrastructure (ICI™) to allow two way communications between the field, the Internet and Research and Educational Networks.
• S3GC ICI™ Rural Telemedicine  (Pending) the S3GC Interoperable Communications Infrastructure (ICI™) can become the foundation for telemedicine networks.  Urban and suburban hospitals infrastructure does not reach smaller communities.  Data services expected in an urban hospital are not available within more remote regions.  S3GC brings solutions for both data transport an information technology systems.
• S3GC ICI™ Disaster Preparedness  S3GC's Interoperable Communications Infrastructure (ICI™) can establish robust communications links in rural communities and help those communities plan for the restoration of failed communications systems.  The Stafford and Homeland Security Acts require the restoration of communications in the wake of a major disaster.  Through disaster planning, rural communities can strengthen their disaster plans with a robust communications infrastructure for use by first responders.