BRaIN is a collaboration platform:

• A web-based ecosystem to enable collaboration and leveraging of knowledge and experience gained from local research initiatives

• A searchable library available to stakeholders : a series of data bases that can be mined; a range of reports that provide stand alone data such as survey results; high level statistical information; integrative pieces for strategic planning; sector- or function-level reports to assist operational decision-making.

Recurring surveys

BRaIN will be structured to conduct recurrent surveys, built around a core of identical questions to enable benchmarking in time and in place. In the same manner that “omnibus surveys” allow to add specific-interest question to a recurring marketing survey, BRaIN will be structured to allow its constituents to request specific subjects to be explored – in a one-off fashion or recurring fashion.

Action-driven reports

BRaIN will also spearhead the deployment of specific action-driven reports to address specific needs of its constituents. For example:

• To help network deployment planners setting priorities for a FTTH network in a mixed urban/suburban/rural region

• To help broadband “sustainable adoptions” decision-makers planning the organization of their support teams in lower income areas

• To help economic development teams identifying gaps in utilization by businesses and organizations of e-solutions in specific sectors in the regions

• To help the economic development decision-makers identifying the most promising sectors in the region based on benchmark with other comparable regions

• And more…

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