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City of South Bend
"We are ready to join with you in a partnership that offers existing right-of-way access agreements."
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More reasons to choose our area
Additional information about why the South Bend area and Google would make a true partnership.
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St. Joe Valley Metronet
50 miles of vendor-neutral, carrier-neutral dark fiber. Right of way agreements are in place; single provider challenges have been overcome; legislative issues have been settled.
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Ignition Park
More than 100 acres in a former industrial corridor are being cleared to house new research and technology businesses. Companies formed at Innovation Park at Notre Dame can choose to continue development at Ignition Park and receive support services and other benefits associated with Indiana's only two-site Technology Park.
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South Bend Medical Mile
Five respected and innovative medical institutions; more than 300 health professionals; more than 5,000 employees; all dedicated to the health and well-being of the South Bend community.
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Innovation Park at Notre Dame
Innovation Park at Notre Dame facilitates the transformation of innovations into viable marketplace ventures. To accomplish this mission, Innovation Park offers companies space and services tailored to meet their specific needs, allowing innovators to focus on achieving their business milestones efficiently and expediently. The Park is prepared to serve clients with needs across a range of business development stages, from incubation to acceleration.
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Indiana University School of Medicine - South Bend
A partnership between IU and Notre Dame is a center for advancing cancer research and for training new physicians.
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The IP City
In the South Bend area, fiber is transforming how businesses operate. Now we're ready to explore Internet possibilities for everyone.
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Innovative Partnerships
Municipalities have organized behind a single entity with immediate access to all municipal conduit.
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Infrastructure Platform
A 50-mile, $7 million, open-access dark fiber optic network is in operation and available to you.
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Internet Possibilities
We already challenged the single-provider paradigm and won, we are on the other side of legislative issues.
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Investment in People
Our vision is a fiber-to-the-home network that is inclusive of the entire population.
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University of Notre Dame Academic Technologies
The Office of Information Technologies’ Academic Technologies Services at the University of Notre Dame identifies and facilitates the adoption of emerging technologies that advance teaching, learning and research. A wide range of technologies which enable faculty and students to be more creative and collaborative both inside and outside the traditional classroom are reviewed and tested. When evaluating new technologies, some of the things that are looked at are “open” APIs, such as the Google Powermeter.
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South Bend, Notre Dame, Metronet partner to warm City Greenhouse
Using heat generated by high-performance computer servers placed at the greenhouse by the University of Notre Dame, the city substantially reduced the facility's annual heating bill. St. Joe Valley Metronet's high-capacity network made the exchange of data between the University and the servers at the greenhouse possible.
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CSONet
South Bend, Notre Dame and Emnet partnered to pilot the largest cyberphysical embedded sensor in the world.
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Michiana Health Information Network
The Michiana Health Information Network (MHIN) is a regional health information exchange (HIE) based in South Bend and dedicated to providing secure and relevant patient data to healthcare providers at the time of care. Today, MHIN has created an electronic database of over 700,000 online charts and over 120 data sources, connecting over 3,200 healthcare providers in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan. MHIN is a national leader in the HIE field, named by the eHealth Initiative in 2009 to be one of few HIE's in the country to be in the most advanced state of fully operational development.
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Smart Grid
South Bend is the site of Indiana Michigan Power/AEP’s first deployment of “smart grid” technologies. Residents who are participating in this pilot now have the ability to save money and conserve natural resources by monitoring and controlling their energy usage on a monthly, weekly, daily and even hourly basis.
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St. Joseph County Library System
The library system in St. Joseph County is consistently ranked in the nation's top ten.
learn more...Our county library was involved in the Internet early on and was the first in the United States to be online with its own server. The Library was also instrumental in the founding of Michiana Free-Net, Indiana's first non-profit Internet service.
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South Bend's Carrier Hotel and Virtual Technology Mall
One of only two carrier hotels in Indiana, Union Station is a state-of-the-art data storage center, optic-fiber transmission hub and virtual technology mall.
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University of Notre Dame Center for Research Computing
The Center for Research Computing at the University of Notre Dame has very extensive distributed applications research. Of particular interest for CRC are those applications that have large data, computational, responsiveness or quality requirements, for example interactive visualization, collaborative environments and data management tools. Other areas of future research are applications of high-definition video streaming.
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Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery
Based at the University of Notre Dame, the goal of MIND is to discover and develop the next nanoscale logic device—one with performance capabilities beyond conventional devices, enabling it to become the basic building block of future computers.
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Wireless Institute
The Wireless Institute in the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame is an internationally preeminent center of research, education, technology transfer, and outreach activities that develops wireless communication and networking applications, technologies, applications, and economic and policy studies.
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Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications
Because of its interdisciplinary character, iCeNSA’s expertise and resources can be very useful in studying how changes in the communication and information networks brought about by the Google initiative to expand broadband capacity and connectivity in St. Joseph County, Indiana, impact the social networks and fabric of our community.
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Memorial Hospital and Health System
Memorial Hospital, a founding partner of St. Joe Valley Metronet, is not only recognized nationally as a leader in providing high quality care, but also as a leader in innovation, offering new approaches to patient satisfaction and customer service.
Innovation Everywhere! @ Memorial
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Press Ganey
The leader in healthcare performance measurement and improvement for more than 20 years, Press Ganey partners with over 10,000 healthcare organizations and receives information from millions of patients, employees and physicians every year.
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Better World Books
From trying to earn a few bucks selling books on line to raising millions of dollars for literacy, saving millions of books from landfills, creating jobs for hundreds of people, and providing wonderful books for millions of readers worldwide – in only eight years.
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Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center
A founding partner of the St. Joe Valley Metronet, SJRMC recently opened a new $350 million state-of the art medical facility.
#1 in Indiana for Orthopedic Care
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Survey Results
83% of respondents said "faster speed" is the most important thing to change regarding their home internet service.
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Bicycle Friendly
Investment in bicycle lanes and paths has made South Bend a great place for bicycle commuting, according to the 2008 American Communities Census survey. A higher percentage of the population bicycles to work here than in any other city in Indiana.
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Center for Socially Responsible Computing
This initiative was launched in 2009, with the help of the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County, St. Joe Valley Metronet and others, to provide expert assessment and consulting for area nonprofits. It also functions as a technology shared services cooperative helping to provide services to local nonprofits that are either free or at significantly reduced rates.
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Northeast Neighborhood Revitalization Organization
Residents, the City of South Bend, the University of Notre Dame, Madison Center, Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, and Memorial Health System work together to revitalize the neighborhood.
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Robinson Community Learning Center
The Robinson Community Learning Center (RCLC) is an off-campus educational initiative of the President’s Office at the University of Notre Dame in partnership with Northeast Neighborhood residents in the City of South Bend.
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The Ray and Joan Kroc Center
The Salvation Army of St. Joseph County is one of ten communities in the central United States and the only one in Indiana -- that has been pre-qualified to receive a $42.5 million gift specifically for the purpose of creating a state-of-the-art youth and family center.
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2009 Green Community of the Year
The City of South Bend was named 2009 Green Community of the Year by the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns.
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Community Foundation
The Community Foundation of St. Joseph County is a charitable endowment with assets exceeding $100 million. Since 1992, approximately $50 million in grants have gone to support local nonprofits. Initiatives focus on strengthening early childhood education, helping elderly citizens stay in their homes longer, creating opportunities for African Americans, building our community’s arts and culture resources, and supporting local parks. The Community Foundation is pursing a Knight Foundation grant to lend additional support to a current major project: Making information about local science and technology research more broadly accessible in order to engage, educate, and inspire local citizens about how this research can impact our community’s future.
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Arts Everywhere
Originally developed by and licensed through the Arts Council of Silicon Valley, ArtsEverywhere.com fosters communication about the arts throughout the greater South Bend region. This powerful Web-based tool—which includes a detailed events calendar, profiles of artists and art organizations, class and workshop opportunities, interactive features and more—builds awareness of and support for the arts in our community.
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Project Impact & Bethel Business Machines
At Bethel Business Machines, the unemployed, ex-offenders and other disenfranchised people learn about computer recycling, refurbishing, repair and resale as well as marketing and customer support.
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