US Ignite: Track 2: Mozilla Hive in Gigabit Cities: Living Laboratories for Next-Generation Learning Applications

该项目展示了高速网络的价值，因此，为进一步的网络投资埋下了种子。该项目是一个为期三年、覆盖五个城市的能力建设活动和协作应用开发计划，重点是利用高速下一代网络进行教育和劳动力发展的工具。 在堪萨斯城和查塔努加，Mozilla已经与30多个当地合作机构合作，培育和试点了17个千兆应用程序，该项目基于当前NSF资助的活动，直接补充了美国千兆组织的千兆生态系统建设工作，以及其将新的千兆创新测试平台上线和连接的努力。该项目将千兆位技术人员的工作从实验室转移到高速网络即将上线的社区。它为千兆技术人员提供了与领先用户更深入和持续的交流，以便他们可以根据观察和用户测试来改进他们的应用程序。它还提高了早期应用程序的可见性，并促进了在实体环境中的部署，以便与代表性用户一起测试和验证应用程序的好处。通过Mozilla Hive项目提供的支持，通过促进千兆应用的持续开发、迭代和部署，并在国家舞台上庆祝成功的应用，帮助千兆创新社区的新进入者成长为生态系统的富有成效的贡献者。 为了实现这些目标，该项目（1）在五个千兆城市建立“蜂巢学习网络”，提供可持续的基层社会组织，以更快的速度测试和推广千兆应用;（2）通过“千兆社区基金”，在每个城市促进以地方为基础的社区千兆应用试点，该基金提供赠款和项目支持;以及（3）促进开发人员、机构和城市之间的知识转移，以加速千兆应用程序的传播和影响。

This project demonstrates the value of high-speed networks and, consequently, seeds demand for further network investment. The project is a three-year, five-city program of capacity building activities and collaborative application development focused on tools that leverage high-speed, next-generation networks for education and workforce development. Building on current NSF-funded activities in Kansas City and Chattanooga where Mozilla has fostered and piloted 17 gigabit apps in collaboration with more than 30 local partner institutions, this project directly complements the gigabit ecosystem-building work of the US Ignite organization and its efforts to bring online and link new gigabit innovation test beds.To create a national gigabit innovation community, the project moves the work of gigabit technologists out of the lab and into the communities where high-speed networks are now coming online. It provides gigabit technologists deeper and sustained exchanges with lead users so they can refine their applications based on observations and user testing. It also increases visibility for early-stage applications and facilitates deployment in brick-and-mortar settings in order to test and validate app benefits with representative users. The support provided through the Mozilla Hive project helps new entrants to the gigabit innovation community mature into productive contributors to the ecosystem by promoting the continuous development, iteration, and deployment of gigabit apps and celebrating successful apps on the national stage. To accomplish these goals, the project (1) establishes "Hive Learning Networks" in five gigabit cities, providing sustainable grassroots social organizations that can test and iterate gigabit applications at greater speed; (2) catalyzes local, community-based gigabit application pilots in each city through the "Gigabit Community Fund," which provides grants and project support; and (3) facilitates knowledge transfer between developers, institutions, and cities to speed the spread and impact of gigabit apps.