Considering regional demographic and economic trends in the second decade of the 2000s, local committees and regional entities—the Northwest Connecticut Economic Development Corporation, the Northwest Hills Council of Governments, the Northwest Connecticut Chamber of Commerce, ConneCT and the Rural Lab—began to develop strategies for bringing enhanced fiber-optic communication to the entire region, as well as for promoting tourism, arts and culture, farming, manufacturing and innovation/entrepreneurship.
Considering regional demographic and economic trends in the second decade of the 2000s local committees and regional entities—the Northwest Connecticut Economic Development Corporation the Northwest Hills Council of Governments the Northwest Connecticut Chamber of Commerce ConneCT and the Rural Lab—began to develop strategies for bringing enhanced fiber-optic communication to the entire region as well as for promoting tourism arts and culture farming manufacturing and innovation/entrepreneurship