Palo Alto, Cambridge, Ann Arbor, Austin and Reston come to mind when you think of high-tech wired cities, but Cape Coral?
Yes, the Cape was recently recognized by the Center For Digital Government as the 8th most wired city in the country for its population category.
125,000-249,999 population category:
1st City of Lincoln, Neb.
2nd City of Winston-Salem, N.C. (tie)
2nd Salt Lake City, Utah (tie)
3rd City of Madison, Wisc.
4th City of Alexandria, Va.
5th City of Norfolk, Va.
6th City of Irving, Texas
7th City of Hampton, Va. (tie)
7th City of Hollywood, Fla. (tie)
8th City of Cape Coral, Fla. (tie)
8th City of Richmond, Va. (tie)
9th City of Chesapeake, Va. (tie)
9th City of Lakewood, Colo. (tie)
10th City of Durham, N.C.
Cape Coral was recognized for broadband penetration as well as the very feature-rich functional city website. Congratulations to the Cape on this recognition, hopefully some high-tech executives will take notice and bring some tech jobs to the area.
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…..On the other hand according to a report by Scarborough Research that was summarized on MarketWatch, Fort Myers was near the bottom for the percentage of residents that use text messaging. I suspect that average age of the population is a key driver of this metric.