KC Digital Drive was founded in 2012 by the City of Kansas City, Missouri, and the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, to address the digital equity issues revealed when Google Fiber launched in Kansas City and to mitigate the gaps in adapting to emerging technologies in the bi-state region. Now, it’s been 10 years since those efforts began and Aaron Deacon, managing director of KC Digital Drive, says Kansas City is ahead of other big cities when it comes to access to fiber. “We have more fiber here than almost any big city in the U.S. We have a competitive fiber market,” Deacon says. “We have fiber that serves some of our poorest neighborhoods that the rest of the country kind of salivates over.”
Source: KCUR
