What could you do with networking speeds 100 times faster than they currently are? Google is taking applications from communities that want to find out. They’re offering to install free high speed fiber in at least one community in America. Cities have to compete with each other to get it. The deadline is March 26.

Tempe wants that fiber. We want it for our 175,000 residents, for our 175,000 workers, for our 4 million visitors who travel here annually for fun and business and for our 200,000 college students. Why do we want it? Tempe, Arizona is known for innovation. We think that the combined brain power of all these people, with this fiber, can change the world. We’ve already done so much.

You can help convince Google that Tempe is the best place to showcase their fiber. Tell us how you can change the world, or at least your corner of it, if you had access to the kind of speed that Google fiber promises.

How you can help… your enthusiasm will be rewarded!

Most creative video: Overnight stay at the Tempe aloft hotel.

Best video: IKEA is donating $25 gift cards to four of the best videos.

Post a photo to Flickr: Show how you would change the world using the speed of Google fiber and you could receive a $10 gift certificates from Downtown Tempe Community

First 5 people who submit videos or photos : The Tempe Chamber of Commerce will give a month’s free pass to its regular events: Business Before Hours, Business Hours, Networking @ Noon, and Hot Topics & Lunch to the first 5 people who submit videos or photos and come to the Tempe Chamber and request the prize.

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