GoogleConnects KC

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Form Innovation Groups at Local Schools

The Google Fiber can facilitate innovative relationships between companies, nonprofit foundations, universities, colleges, governments etc. with sc....

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Hacker Houses KC

Goal: To encourage startups from the West coast and around the US to move to KC by providing shared "Hacker Houses" where startups enjoy ....

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Remote Video Production House

Hollywood has long had a firm hold on Movie and TV production, and if you want into the business, you have to live in Los Angeles. High speed fiber op....

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A la Carte TV service

Begin offering a la carte TV programming.  The most frustrating of my monthly bills is always what I pay for the privilege of watching exactly....

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Arts and Culture

I applaud the awareness of Arts and Culture in this plan and I think it can be enhanced--especially since Kansas City is clainming the ti....

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Distributed Workplace

As a presenting finalist at the Gigabit Challange, I would like submit the idea of a network of centers strategically located throughout the greate....

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Mobile Telemedicine for Emergency Medical Services

Mobile (EMS) Telemedicine is the next frontier in pre-hospital healthcare.  Live interact video conference, or simple store & forward ....

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Interactive HD Aquarium/Zoo

For the KC Aquarium:  HD cameras are set up in the various tanks with beautiful (though stationary) views.  These HD feeds are released f....

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Hacker, Maker, Google Fiber Lab / Collaboration Space.

The idea is to leverage the strengths of the local hackerspace called CCCKC at Hammerspace. To create a Google fiber think tank, lab, research and c....

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Real-Time Sensor Display

Place sensors all over KC's; have map that combines all similar data in real-time -- temperature, precipation, air quality, traffic, wind speed,....

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FREE WIRELESS!

Kansas City – an entire city with FREE WIRELESS INTERNET! By allowing free Internet access, it allows more people to find things they want i.e. jobs, ....

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Make KC the best place to have conferences

Conferences, especially technical conferences (e.g. Ruby Midwest), use Internet connections a lot. Having good Internet connectivity (instead of the....

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SSMB Cloud

(SSMB) Startups, Small & Medium Business Cloud Hosting service for KC. Provide businesses with access to a google fiber backed cloud hosting s....

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Live Streaming of Concerts and Sporting Events

Because of high bandwidth provided by GF, someone should stream local concerts, performances, high school athletic events and other events using HD.....

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Collaboration with Chattanooga

Chattanooga's municipally owned EPB (Electric Power Board)  has already deployed a gigabit network in it's 600 square mile service are....

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Broadcast Neighborhood Association Meetings

Encourage more neighborhood involvement by making televised meetings available, both realtime and on a delayed basis to all members of the neighborh....

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Tutoring and Homework Support for Kids

With a truly effective videoconferencing capability in the schools, volunteers (organized, screened, trained) could provide tutoring and homework su....

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Wifi on public transportation

Bring the Metro in the the 21st century by having wifi on buses and at bus stations. ....

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Architecture

Architects could construct 3D models and communicate their ideas virtually with clients or collaborators without concern of file size.....

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Real-time Translation

This technology could allow computers to do real-time translation at places of business, hospitals and government offices. ....

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Real-Time Information for First Responders

Create a mobile application that links in directly to city emergency services.  When there is an emergency call for first-responders, the peopl....

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Kansas City Public School Alternative

Turn one or many of Kansas City's bankrupt, abandoned schools into a computer lab and web-based school.  Students of the now unaccredited K....

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Real-People-Size Communications Video Walls for Outdoors and Indoor areas.

The key to this idea is Real-People-Size. Imagine walking up to a real-people-size screen and interacting with somebody in a different par....

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Ease the Digital Divide

With Google Fiber, hopefully more people will have access to computers and new technologies so that way we can close the digital divide between the yo....

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Telecommuting workforce

Google Fiber could foster a more productive telecommuting workforce where people work virtually from home or other offices, but in new interactive way....

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Interactive Mural (World Entertainment)

An interactive mural that everyone in the world could contribute to remotely and in real time would be a fun and entertaining experience. ....

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Self-driving cars with Google Fiber & Integrated Roadways' Intelligent Pavement Systems

Using Google Fiber, Google's Driverless car program, and Integrated Roadways' modular pavement products featuring embedded intelligent senso....

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Emergency Response

Two way cameras and communication channels between emergency responders and hospitals could allow Kansas City hospitals to begin treating/preparing to....

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"shots fired" microphone locater system for PD's

A system of microphones on Cell towers to locate "shots fired" would allow instant info to Police. A proper system would alert only ....

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e-Community Center for Rosedale Area

Rosedale is part of KCK's urban core and is home to more 14,000 residents, over 60% of whom are renters not home owners.  A very significan....

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Holograms

Forget video conferencing. Forget "telepresence." Why don't we use Google Fiber to provide high resolution holograms for meetings and ....

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Change the Educational Experience

Google Fiber in the home will offer new educational experiences to students. Maybe students will be able to learn more through a virtual seminar than ....

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New Collaboration Platforms

Google Fiber could allow new collaboration platforms where people meet others on the web with similar interests and collaborate on projects together. ....

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Driving

In the future, roads and cars may communicate with one another. If this were true, this could eliminate many of the accidents that happen on a daily b....

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Buy Local! You have the power to sustain your local economy...

Create an application on popular mobile platforms and web-based, that helps people find locally-owned businesses to buy from.  It could be a ma....

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High speed Tor Nodes

It would be nice if there was a high speed group of tor nodes on Google fiber.  They should probably not be exit nodes, but if they are they sh....

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Farming

When farmers find signs of distress or bugs on their crops, they could take pictures of the damage and send it to a research university for input on h....

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Sustainability

Kansas City could better monitor energy consumption in public buildings by analyzing the amount of usage in individual rooms. If a room is not being u....

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Government Archives

The government could film all of their meetings and keep them in a free archive so that researchers and citizens could access meeting information on d....

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Cloud Network

Companies could move their email and other in-house storage services to the cloud computers saving them money, time, and maintenance headaches. Citi....

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Collaboration Between Artists & Musicians

Independent singers, songwriters, and musicians could collaborate and produce music from separate studio locations. This utilizes Google Fiber’s abili....

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Provide Free High Speed Internet Access for the Education & Training of Veterans

Provide Free High Speed Internet Access for the Education & Training of Veterans returning home from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Provide ....

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Crowdsource Accessibility using WheelMap

There are many people with disabilities living in Kansas City - and yet, many are not able to enter or even utilize some buildings due to the fact t....

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Helping out in the food desert

produce an easy to use database/scheduling system that allows ride sharing for those who need to buy groceries but live in the food desert.  Th....

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Online Psychology

Google Fiber can really open the doors to innovative services via video. One that I think would work very well is for professional psychologists to ....

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Cultural Immersion

Online cultural immersion programs could connect people from across the world virtually. This could help people learn foreign languages and practice w....

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City Engagement of Youth

Applications will be created that allow city government to engage the youth of the nation in ways that has been lacking. New government 2.0 programs w....

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Tele-surgery

Tele-surgery –> the use of telecommunications to remotely conduct surgical procedures would allow three advantages over current practices: better thre....

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High Resolution Surveillance

  I would like to see very high resolution security cameras placed throughout the city and streamed to the 911 communications cente....

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Global Rewards Card

This card will be comprehensive and carry all of your rewards cards (grocery, retail, fast food, etc.). You need only one card (not multiple to keep....

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PrepsKC

PrepsKC --What is It?: PrepsKC is the year round leader in high school football coverage in the Greater Kansas City area ....

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Law Enforcement

If all police files were online, the network could instantly pull up related cases and draw trends in crime. Besides improving this system, we could i....

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Health Information Clearing House

KC can use the Google gigabit connection to create a clearing house of clinical data on healthcare services paid for by government payors, i.e. Medi....

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Shopping

Google Fiber could change the online shopping experience. Imagine shopping online and seeing how you would look in a piece of clothing before you boug....

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Use of universal internet access/computerized household

Every computer household should have an utility application to monitor their utility use. This would educate and be an example of how computers help ....

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Redefining Enterprise Management

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