I just nominated Jersey City for Google’s Fiber to Communities project after I found out that Councilman Steve Fulop is also sponsoring it for JC. I’m sure he has considerably more pull than me, but I figured I’d help out. Here’s my submission:
Jersey City has a very homogenous set of residents, ranging from the gentrifying yuppies buying waterfront condos, to the working class immigrants running local businesses in order to feed their oversized families, to the starving artists whose pieces decorate those local business’s walls, to the local gangbangers selling drugs in the projects, to the local farmers supplying the farmers markets and CSAs that all residents enjoy.
All these people can benefit from a faster Internet, whether to find buyers of their wares, recruit people to their cause or just to have a diversion from modern life and the force-fed entertainment of the mainstream media culture. These diverse perspectives would give Google a strong cross-sectional look at how Fiber For Communities would fare in the rest of America and the world.
I love that Steve Fulop is pushing for this. He’s like my favorite politician right now. Big fan of his tweets, makes him seem like a normal everyday dude.