etworks that run underneath downtown streets in several "high-tech offices"
focused on the Euclid Avenue area. Cleveland State University hired a
technology transfer officer to cultivate technology transfers from CSU research
to marketable ideas and companies in the Cleveland area, and appointed a vice
president for economic development. Case Western Reserve University
participated in technology initiatives such as the One Community project, a
high-speed fiber optic network linking the area's research centers intended to
stimulate growth. In mid-2005, Cleveland was named an Intel "Worldwide
Digital Community" along with Corpus Christi, Texas, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and Taipei. This added about $12 million for marketing to expand
regional technology partnerships, created a city-wide Wi-Fi network, and
developed a tech economy. In addition to this Intel initiative, in January 2006
a New York-based think tank, the Intelligent Community Forum, selected
Cleveland as the sole American city among its seven finalists for the
"Intelligent Community of the Year" award. The group announced that
it nominated the city for its One Community network with potential broadband
applications. One Community collaborated with Cisco Systems to deploy a
wireless network starting in September 2006
