One way you can get involved is to complete a demand survey. This local information is extremely helpful and enables us, and importantly potential suppliers, to understand exactly the type of demand a local area is seeing for superfast broadband.

The County Council can help!. We have a template questionnaire which can be used. This can be completed by local communities on-line or you can use hard copies to door step to your local community.

If you would like further details please contact bigidea@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Full information, including Handbook and EOI form can be found on the web links below.

http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2012/05/10/rural-business-and-broadband-grant-applications-open/

http://rdpenetwork.defra.gov.uk/funding-sources/rural-community-broadband-fund

The Council wants to keep reaching out to as many people as possible to use its site – so customers’ internet speed is critical to that.   This is another reason why we need countywide access to superfast broadband.

The County Councils website has recently received the highest score for reviewer ratings in the “2012 Better Connected” publication. The purpose of Better connected is to identify good practice in the development of local authority websites. Please see http://www.socitm.net/betterconnected

Schools information is always popular, from jobs in schools, school directory, school term dates and school meals.  Highways-related information is also regularly visited.  This includes street doctor, bus maps and bus timetables. 

The County Council is continuing to improve its site to make it easier to access services.  This includes a new payment engine which will allow more services to put their transactions on-line e.g. the library shop, trading standards license forms, and enable on-line enrolment and payment for adult learning courses. 

The County Council is also making a full version of its site available on any mobile browser and looking to create a customer portal – so people can sign-up to be kept informed of marketing campaigns, improvements to services, and updates to enquiries.  The aim is to put as many transactions on its website as possible and keep customers informed. 

You can find out more by visiting the County Council’s website or by emailing bigidea@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Someone from the County Council’s web team will then contact you.

Projects in Rockingham, Abthorpe and Warmington and Lutton will look to cover approximately 2,000 premises and are well on the way to securing over £400,000 funding.

Well done to all concerned

The Council wants to keep reaching out to as many people as possible to use its site – so customers’ internet speed is critical to that.   This is another reason why we need countywide access to superfast broadband.

The County Councils website has recently received the highest score for reviewer ratings in the “2012 Better Connected” publication. The purpose of Better connected is to identify good practice in the development of local authority websites. Please see http://www.socitm.net/betterconnected

Schools information is always popular, from jobs in schools, school directory, school term dates and school meals.  Highways-related information is also regularly visited.  This includes street doctor, bus maps and bus timetables. 

The County Council is continuing to improve its site to make it easier to access services.  This includes a new payment engine which will allow more services to put their transactions on-line e.g. the library shop, trading standards license forms, and enable on-line enrolment and payment for adult learning courses. 

The County Council is also making a full version of its site available on any mobile browser and looking to create a customer portal – so people can sign-up to be kept informed of marketing campaigns, improvements to services, and updates to enquiries.  The aim is to put as many transactions on its website as possible and keep customers informed. 

You can find out more by visiting the County Council’s website or by emailing bigidea@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Someone from the County Council’s web team will then contact you.

“Skylogic have offered Northamptonshire the opportunity for one business or residential premise to take up a years’ FREE subscription to their 6mbps satellite service.  Skylogic would install the necessary technology and you will be able to trial their package for a whole year.  An offer to extend the package for a fixed tarif price will be offered at the end of the trial period. 

This could be of interest to you if you are in a rural part of Northamptonshire which has very poor broadband capability and are in need for a quick and viable solution.

You can check out Skylogic at http://www.skylogic.it/?lang=en

If you are interested please email bigidea@northamptonshire.gov.uk with the following information

• Contact name and number
• Post Code
• Current broadband speeds (if known)

Someone from the County Council’s Broadband Team will then contact you.