cotech-website/_coops/cbn.md

---
title: CBN
name: CBN
members: 5
website: http://broadband.coop/
email: info@broadband.coop
twitter: cbn_team
github: 
telephone: 0161 283 2675
address: c/o McKellans,11 Riverview, The Embankment Business Park,Vale Road, Heaton
  Mersey,Stockport,UK,SK4 3GN
latitude: 53.4067704
longitude: -2.202668899999935
clients:
- brighton-hove-city-council
- manchester-city-council
- nottingham-city-council
- tameside-metropolitan-borough-council
services:
- business-analysis
- consultancy
technologies: 
---

At CBN we work to advise national and local Government, urban and rural organisations on ways to develop their digital infrastructure to promote economic development and digital inclusion.

We emphasise the opportunity that comes from the development of what we call a truly **transformational digital infrastructure** or TDI; While “Gigabit” and “superfast broadband” are often seen as goals in their own right they are in truth inputs to a greater transformational agenda.

Too often there is an assumption that once superfast or ultrafast broadband is in place the economic and social benefits will naturally follow but without that wider agenda that sees the infrastructure as a foundation, there remains a risk that the next wave of innovation will be unfocused and may miss key economic and social goals.

That’s why we have helped develop new types of infrastructure initiative like the Brighton Digital Exchange, a carrier neutral PoP and data centre owned and run by a co-operative of ISPs and digital sector businesses.

CBN has many years’ experience of delivering other innovative projects that shape urban and rural areas through innovation.
-												Migrate co-op pages from old site

I ran `ruby migrate_coop_pages.rb` in `scripts`. There will need to be
some manual tidying up of the generated `.md` files under `_coops` but
I think this is a good start. As a one-off it doesn't warrant the time
it would take to improve the migration script.

											
										
										
											2018-11-10 21:16:42 +00:00
+								---
 								title: CBN
 								name: CBN
-												Add a members field to each file under _coops

I've populated the data, where available, from the field "Number of
current members The number of full members (owners) in the co-op." in
the wordpress admin.

											
										
										
											2018-11-30 12:56:40 +00:00
+								members: 5
-												Migrate co-op pages from old site

I ran `ruby migrate_coop_pages.rb` in `scripts`. There will need to be
some manual tidying up of the generated `.md` files under `_coops` but
I think this is a good start. As a one-off it doesn't warrant the time
it would take to improve the migration script.

											
										
										
											2018-11-10 21:16:42 +00:00
+								website: http://broadband.coop/
 								email: info@broadband.coop
-												Fix twitter link in cbn.md

											
										
										
											2018-11-10 21:20:59 +00:00
+								twitter: cbn_team
-												Fix & normalize Coop frontmatter YAML

Also ensure newline at EOF.

This was achieved by running the new normalize_coop_frontmatter.rb
script which basically reads in the frontmatter, parses it and dumps it
back out.

I had to manually fix some telephone numbers which had been incorrectly
parsed as some kind of number rather than as strings.

											
										
										
											2018-11-30 16:54:12 +00:00
+								github:
-												Migrate co-op pages from old site

I ran `ruby migrate_coop_pages.rb` in `scripts`. There will need to be
some manual tidying up of the generated `.md` files under `_coops` but
I think this is a good start. As a one-off it doesn't warrant the time
it would take to improve the migration script.

											
										
										
											2018-11-10 21:16:42 +00:00
+								telephone: 0161 283 2675
-												Fix & normalize Coop frontmatter YAML

Also ensure newline at EOF.

This was achieved by running the new normalize_coop_frontmatter.rb
script which basically reads in the frontmatter, parses it and dumps it
back out.

I had to manually fix some telephone numbers which had been incorrectly
parsed as some kind of number rather than as strings.

											
										
										
											2018-11-30 16:54:12 +00:00
+								address: c/o McKellans,11 Riverview, The Embankment Business Park,Vale Road, Heaton
 								  Mersey,Stockport,UK,SK4 3GN
-												Migrate co-op pages from old site

I ran `ruby migrate_coop_pages.rb` in `scripts`. There will need to be
some manual tidying up of the generated `.md` files under `_coops` but
I think this is a good start. As a one-off it doesn't warrant the time
it would take to improve the migration script.

											
										
										
											2018-11-10 21:16:42 +00:00
+								latitude: 53.4067704
 								longitude: -2.202668899999935
 								clients:
 								- brighton-hove-city-council
 								- manchester-city-council
 								- nottingham-city-council
 								- tameside-metropolitan-borough-council
 								services:
 								- business-analysis
 								- consultancy
-												Fix & normalize Coop frontmatter YAML

Also ensure newline at EOF.

This was achieved by running the new normalize_coop_frontmatter.rb
script which basically reads in the frontmatter, parses it and dumps it
back out.

I had to manually fix some telephone numbers which had been incorrectly
parsed as some kind of number rather than as strings.

											
										
										
											2018-11-30 16:54:12 +00:00
+								technologies:
-												Migrate co-op pages from old site

I ran `ruby migrate_coop_pages.rb` in `scripts`. There will need to be
some manual tidying up of the generated `.md` files under `_coops` but
I think this is a good start. As a one-off it doesn't warrant the time
it would take to improve the migration script.

											
										
										
											2018-11-10 21:16:42 +00:00
+								---
 								At CBN we work to advise national and local Government, urban and rural organisations on ways to develop their digital infrastructure to promote economic development and digital inclusion.
-												#2 Fixed markdown for coop pages

											
										
										
											2018-11-30 11:34:46 +00:00
 								We emphasise the opportunity that comes from the development of what we call a truly **transformational digital infrastructure** or TDI; While “Gigabit” and “superfast broadband” are often seen as goals in their own right they are in truth inputs to a greater transformational agenda.
-												Migrate co-op pages from old site

I ran `ruby migrate_coop_pages.rb` in `scripts`. There will need to be
some manual tidying up of the generated `.md` files under `_coops` but
I think this is a good start. As a one-off it doesn't warrant the time
it would take to improve the migration script.

											
										
										
											2018-11-10 21:16:42 +00:00
+								Too often there is an assumption that once superfast or ultrafast broadband is in place the economic and social benefits will naturally follow but without that wider agenda that sees the infrastructure as a foundation, there remains a risk that the next wave of innovation will be unfocused and may miss key economic and social goals.
-												#2 Fixed markdown for coop pages

											
										
										
											2018-11-30 11:34:46 +00:00
-												Migrate co-op pages from old site

I ran `ruby migrate_coop_pages.rb` in `scripts`. There will need to be
some manual tidying up of the generated `.md` files under `_coops` but
I think this is a good start. As a one-off it doesn't warrant the time
it would take to improve the migration script.

											
										
										
											2018-11-10 21:16:42 +00:00
+								That’s why we have helped develop new types of infrastructure initiative like the Brighton Digital Exchange, a carrier neutral PoP and data centre owned and run by a co-operative of ISPs and digital sector businesses.
-												#2 Fixed markdown for coop pages

											
										
										
											2018-11-30 11:34:46 +00:00
-												Fix & normalize Coop frontmatter YAML

Also ensure newline at EOF.

This was achieved by running the new normalize_coop_frontmatter.rb
script which basically reads in the frontmatter, parses it and dumps it
back out.

I had to manually fix some telephone numbers which had been incorrectly
parsed as some kind of number rather than as strings.

											
										
										
											2018-11-30 16:54:12 +00:00
+								CBN has many years’ experience of delivering other innovative projects that shape urban and rural areas through innovation.