Recently added Education Resources:
Connected Tennessee
Connected Tennessee, Inc., an independent non-profit organization, works with a wide array of Tennessee entities to make the cost of technology expansion go down and the ease of doing business go up. Connected Tennessee will accelerate the availability and use of technology towards creating a better business environment, more effective community and economic development, improved healthcare, enhanced education, and more efficient government.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Healthcare, Individual State, Technology, Education & Research, Advocacy, Business, Economic Development, General Public
Type: Organization
State(s): Tennessee
1st-Mile New Mexico
New Mexico 'open' broadband initiative.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Healthcare, Individual State, Entertainment, Technology, Policy, Education & Research, Advocacy, Business, Government, Economic Development, General Public, Rates, History
Type: Network/Service Provider, Publication, News Item, Organization, Policy/Regulation, Application, Mailing List, Presentations, Quote, Legislation
State(s): New Mexico
Governor Schwarzenegger Announces Appointments to the Broadband Task Force
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the appointment of Ellis Berns, Rachelle Chong, William Geppert, Charles Giancarlo, Paul Hernandez, William Huber, Christine Kehoe, Wendy Lazarus, Lloyd Levine, Michael Liang, Bryan Martin, Timothy McCallion, Sunne Wright McPeak, Milo Medin, Peter Pardee, Peter Pennekamp, Debra Richardson, Rollin Richmond, Larry Smarr, Jonathan Taplin and Emy Tseng to the Broadband Task Force.
The Broadband Task Force will bring together public and private stakeholders to remove barriers to broadband access, identify opportunities for increased broadband adoption and enable the creation and deployment of new advanced communication technologies. In October, the Governor signed an Executive Order to clear the government red tape for expanding broadband networks and to create the Broadband Task Force, which was expanded to 21 members earlier this month.
Subjects: Individual State, Policy, Education & Research, Government, Economic Development
Type: News Item
State(s): California
CUWiN: Wirelessing the Revolution with Open Source Mesh Wireless Technologies
Founded by coalition of wireless developers and community volunteers committed to providing low-cost, do-it-yourself, community-controlled alternatives to contemporary broadband models, CUWiN (the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network) has been developing free, open-source wireless mesh software since the turn of the millennium. Today, CUWiN is on the brink of revolutionizing broadband service provision and telecommunications infrastructure worldwide by creating extremely low-cost, easy-to-install broadband technologies that can cover everything from a single apartment building to an entire metropolitan region.
Subjects: Individual State, Technology, Education & Research, Government, Economic Development, General Public
Type: News Item
State(s): Illinois
Bringing Broadband to Rural Mississippi Appalachia
This PDF publication examines the current state of the Broadband market in the United States and in Mississippi. May communities in Mississippi have high-speed Internet access nearby such as public schools, but 47.7% of the students attending those schools go home to a residence without Internet access. This study also provides some recommendations for the state.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Education & Research, Advocacy, Government, Economic Development
Type: Publication
State(s): Mississippi
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