The Digital Redwoods Ecosystem

One of Daily's favorite new broadband analogies from Sean McLaughlin, a community media pioneer and executive director of Access Humboldt, an entity working to bring broadband to and foster local community media in Humboldt County (CA). Among the many things Access Humboldt does is a project called Digital Redwoods, which is their primary effort to organize local leaders around the goal of bringing better broadband to Humboldt County. "Digital Redwoods" is more than just a nice name, it describes a specific analogy that they're using to help describe the intent of the project. The core of this analogy is that we need to think about broadband as an ecosystem that, just like a redwood forest, requires all of its components working together to survive and thrive.