Bob Ballance
The Center for Internet as Infrastructure, LLC.
Principal
Santa Fe, NM,
Dr. Robert Ballance is the founder of the Center for Internet as Infrastructure, LLC. Internet connectivity in the US is in transition from a desirable innovation to essential infrastructure. The Center’s purpose is to help accelerate that transition.
The I3 Connectivity Explorer is the Center's first major project. This freely-available tool provides data about Internet connectivity together with solid information about how to interpret that data. Used in support of a broadband planning team, the I3 Connectivity Explorer helps your team and your community to ask better questions sooner.
Prior to founding the Center, Bob served as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow (1/2016-4/2017) where he was the principal architect of the Broadband Connectivity Assessment Tool, a prototype data-driven community self-assessment tool for broadband. He also helped to organize the White House Open Data Summit and Innovation Showcase, held in September 2016.