Our Challenge

As the Founding Chair of the Board of Foothills Connect, I see our challenge is to rewrite the economic landscape of our county.  By connecting existing resources and adding new layers of technology we are designing a new tomorrow.  Come join our journey and let us know your thoughts.

Comments

[Jim Brown]

Fred is right about our challenge. Technology and the Internet can give our children access to the greatest library every assembled and they can sit anywhere to "walk in the door."
No Dewey Decimal System, just Google, Ask and Wikipedia. As broadband grows, I believe it will allow the possibility of dynamic textbooks, available online, which offers tremendous changes.
No longer are students reading science and current event textbooks that are out of date before they are printed. And think of the money that will be freed up if school districts don't have to buy books.
The Internet allows you to do your thing, no matter where you are as long as you have access.
Education, for youngsters to senior citizens, never stops. And the Internet is an easy path to achieve knowledge.
Expanding that access should be the goal of everyone, from private citizen to elected official, because information is the future and it is opportunity.
Jim Brown, current chair, Foothills Connect

[Curtis Vance]

I agree with Fred, bringing Internet access to the whole of Rutherford County is a challenge, a worthy goal and attainable. Success will require creativity, cooperation, and collaboration, from everyone involved. There are many stories of communities being transformed in a positive manner by Internet access, so we know this is not an impossible dream.