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Maine’S Connected Food System: On The Web And Online, Barbara Ives, Sam Merrill
Maine’S Connected Food System: On The Web And Online, Barbara Ives, Sam Merrill
Maine Policy Review
The authors of this case study discuss how modern communications via the internet are expanding opportunities in Maine’s food system, ranging from consumers’ buying clubs to food resource maps to “Maine Ag Trader,” a website that enables producers and consumers to connect and find what they need.
Building An Information Infrastructure, Christopher E. Hoy
Building An Information Infrastructure, Christopher E. Hoy
Maine Policy Review
How we provide education, how farmers and manufacturers do business in local and global economies, and how rapidly-improving technologies will drive life in the 21st century remain somewhat mysterious. Christopher E. Hoy has been at the forefront of a movement to develop a telecommunications infrastructure in the state of Nebraska. He initiated a project called “The Global Community Initiative.” As part of that project, Hoy organized more than 45 community information technology committees in rural Nebraska and developed a model planning process for them to follow. He describes this as a statewide, grass-roots organizing effort designed to stimulate demand for …