Don Means

With over 25 years experience in the IT industry, Means is co-founder and principal of Digital Village Associates, a consulting enterprise founded in 1994 that focuses on information/communications technologies as transformational tools and subject for local communities. In 2007, as an extension of the "Community TeleStructure Initiative", Means launched the "Fiber to the Library" campaign to assure next generation broadband connectivity for the 16,500 U.S. public libraries, as a national goal and as a spearhead project to lead broadband infrastructure build out. In 2005, Means and Digital Village launched the "Community TeleStructure Initiative", as a national consortium advocating local responsibility for telecom/broadband infrastructure planning and community level market development.

Holding a finance degree from Southern Methodist University, Means has also studied architecture and environmental design at the University of Texas and international business relations at the University of Graz, Austria.