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Turnaround Ohio

The Broadband Ohio initiative will achieve the following goals of Governor Ted Strickland’s Turnaround Ohio Plan:

• Establish Ohio as a world-class competitor by making Ohio the national leader in the deployment and effective use of broadband networking.
• Develop jobs of the future by leveraging the state’s investment in broadband infrastructure to create a competitive, well-connected economy in Ohio.
• Create cost savings through the coordination of Ohio’s public broadband resources, leveraging the state’s significant investments and more efficiently operating and spending limited resources.

To reach these goals, Gov. Strickland signed an executive order that:

• Establishes the Ohio Broadband Council to coordinate Ohio’s significant broadband investments.
• Creates Broadband Ohio, comprised of the new NextGen Network to provide broadband services to all state executive agencies, boards and commissions and OSCnet, (formerly the Third Frontier Network) to focus on innovation, research, education and economic competitiveness.

In addition, Gov. Strickland seeks to improve Digital Inclusion in Ohio through strategic broadband investments and planning.