Dayton names Minnesota broadband task force
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton this morning announced the appointments of 15 people — several from the Northland — to a broadband task force.By: News Tribune staff, Duluth News Tribune
- Gov. Mark Dayton
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton this morning announced the appointments of 15 people — several from the Northland — to a broadband task force.
Created by executive order, the Governor’s Task Force on Broadband is charged with developing policies to promote the expansion of broadband access in Minnesota. Dayton’s stated goal is “border-to-border” high-speed Internet and cell-phone access throughout Minnesota.
The Minnesota Department of Commerce, which houses the state’s Broadband Development Office, will work with the task force.
“For the short- and long-term success of our economy, every school, business, and consumer in Minnesota must have affordable, high-speed access to information and the online marketplace,” Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman said in a news release. “That is what the work of this Task Force is all about.”
The task force members are: Maureen Ideker, Director of Telehealth, Essentia Health; Bernadine Joselyn, Director of Public Policy and Engagement for the Blandin Foundation; Danna MacKenzie, Director of Information Systems for Cook County; Matt Grose, Superintendent, Deer River Public Schools; Keith Modglin, Information Systems Director for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe; Shirley Walz, Senior Director of Technology for Thomson Reuters; Margaret Anderson Kelliher (Chair), Director of the Minnesota High Tech Association; Steve Lewsader, President of the Communication Workers of America (CWA), Local 7201; Duane Ring, President of the nine-state Midwest Region of Century Link; Gary Evans, CEO of Hiawatha Broadband Company (HBC); Dick Sjoberg, Sjoberg’s Cable; Daniel Richter, President of MVTV Wireless; Steve Peterson, Bloomington City Council; Bob Bass, Bloomington, AT&T Wireless; Bao Vang, President/CEO of the Hmong-American Partnership.
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