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ResearchChannel Call for Partners in Open Source Development of iHDTVT software suite
ResearchChannel announced today that its iHDTVT suite of software
will be available as open source in first quarter 2006. iHDTVT consists of software modules that capture, packetize and transport high-definition video in various formats over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, with the goal of providing wider access to HD content.
Subjects: Entertainment, Technology, Education & Research
Type: News Item
State(s): NONE
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
200 Billion Broadband Scandal
In this blog entry, Susan Estrada, President, FirstMile.US explains why everyone should care about big broadband in the US citing examples in Healthcare, Education, and entertainment.
Subjects: Healthcare, Entertainment, Education & Research, Business, Economic Development
Type: Blog/Wiki
State(s): NONE
Arizona Telemedicine Program
The Arizona Telemedicine Program is a large, multidisciplinary, university-based program that provides telemedicine services, distance learning, informatics training, and telemedicine technology assessment capabilities to communities throughout Arizona. The program has succeeded in creating partnerships among a wide variety of not-for-profit and profit healthcare organizations, and has created new interagency relationships within the state government. As a "virtual corporation," the Program is creating new paradigms for healthcare delivery over the information superhighway.
Subjects: Healthcare, Education & Research
Type: Organization
State(s): Arizona
Boosting Indiana's Infrastructure
Purdue University at West Lafayette and Indiana University at Bloomington are fierce competitors on Big Ten basketball courts, but the institutions are joining forces to bolster their state's technology infrastructure. Through a state-financed project, the universities will oversee the construction of a fiber-optic network, called I-Light2, that will let institutions across Indiana share data at high speeds. (The Exponent)
Subjects: Individual State, Education & Research, Government
Type: News Item
State(s): Indiana
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
Broadband Account
Broadband account: for use for infrastructure deployment grants to schools, community projects and underserved areas. Funds come from surcharges collected by providers.
Requires municipalities to obtain a super-majority of 65% of the voters before providing telecom services
Subjects: Education & Research, Government, General Public
Type: Funding Source
State(s): Minnesota
Broadband Deployment Bill
The Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund (TIF) a state grant program offers discounted rates to public schools and libraries; the act also began the deregulation process in Texas. TIF is funded by a special tax to telcos and customers and offers public schools, libraries, universities, and health care facilities the opportunity to develop community technology initiatives include public access stations, training programs, community networks, and infrastructure acquisitions. Although the legislature authorized $1.5B in grants over 10 years, TIF was disbanded due to budgetary problems.
Subjects: Education & Research, General Public
Type: Funding Source
State(s): Texas
Broadband Deployment Key to Opportunity for Children
The Children’s Partnership (TCP) released an analysis of how the deployment of high-speed Internet (or broadband) affects 73 million U.S. children, nearly 10 million of whom live in California.
Helping Our Children Succeed: What’s Broadband Got to Do With It? reviews concrete ways in which broadband serves as the conduit for delivering valuable opportunities to youth—services that increase educational achievement, improve children’s health, prepare young people for the jobs of today and tomorrow, and enable young people to get involved in their local communities.
Subjects: Healthcare, Technology, Education & Research, General Public
Type: Publication
State(s): NONE
Broadband for Higher Education Coalition
A secure, affordable, fast, and improved Internet will provide the possibility of higher education for anyone, anywhere in America. As Congress and the Federal Communications Commission begin their upcoming review of the Telecommunications Act, members of the Broadband for Higher Education group are urging them to:
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Make high-speed access open to all
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Create a level playing field for competing technologies
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Support for state and local networks
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Increased R&D funding that will enhance the Internet
Subjects: Education & Research, Advocacy
Type: Organization, Policy/Regulation
State(s): NONE
California Teleconnect Fund
California Teleconnect Fund: 50% discount to K-12 public & private schools, libraries, hospitals & community based organizations.
On June 1st, the CPUC announced that, per Senate Bill (SB) 720, it will use up to $3 million of the funds remaining in its CTF to provide infrastructure for digital divide projects. The CTF program provides a 50 percent discount on monthly recurring charges for lines for high-speed telecommunications services, such as digital subscriber line services (DSL) and T-1 technology, to schools, libraries, hospitals and health clinics that are owned and operated by a municipal or county government or a hospital district, and community based organizations.
Under SB 720, if there are funds that have not been solicited for the CTF program in a fiscal year but have already been included in the budget for the program, that money will be used to fund 40 percent of the one-time installation costs for entities that do not have access to advanced telecommunications services.
Claims for reimbursement of past costs back to September 23, 2003 will be accepted. Claims will be paid on a first-come, first serve basis until funds are exhausted.
Subjects: Healthcare, Policy, Education & Research, Government
Type: Funding Source, Legislation
State(s): California
CalREN
CENIC's California Research and Education Network (CalREN) establishes a multitiered advanced network-services fabric to serve all research and education in California.
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): California
CENIC
Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) is a not-for-profit corporation serving the California Institute of Technology, California State University, Stanford University, University of California, University of Southern California, California Community Colleges and the statewide K-12 school system. CENIC's mission is to facilitate and coordinate the development, deployment and operation of a set of robust multi-tiered advanced network services for this research and education community.
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Network/Service Provider, Organization
State(s): California
Center for Appalachian Network Access (CANA)
The Center for Appalachian Network Access (CANA) is a philanthropic initiative based at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The CANA mission is to assist communities in the Appalachian Region develop and use modern telecommunication networks.
CANA is founded and managed by Carnegie Mellon University. The management team consists of faculty of the School of Computer Science, the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration. Students at these schools volunteer to serve on CANA projects.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Education & Research, General Public
Type: Network/Service Provider, Organization
State(s): Pennsylvania
Center for Health & Technology’s Telemedicine Program
Center for Health & Technology’s Telemedicine Program, created by the UC Davis Health Systems to bring telemedicine to ~80 facilities in rural areas; applications include mental health care, endocrinology and prenatal care.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Healthcare, Education & Research
Type: Organization
State(s): California
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
Connecticut Education Network
Connecticut Education Network, an optical network for public schools, libraries, and colleges, scheduled for completion in 2005.
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Connecticut
ConnectTEN Internet Project
ConnectTEN Internet Project equipped 1800 K-12 schools and local education offices with direct high speed access. All network facilities services are outsourced to a vendor. Annual budget is $18M, the state provides 30% and e-rate provides the balance.
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Tennessee
COTel Task Force
The Central Oregon Telecommunications Task Force (COTel) is an ad-hoc group of representatives from K-12 education, higher education, health care, non-profit and social service agencies, the business community, and government. The group formed in 1995 to establish a leading-edge vision for telecommunications infrastructure in Central Oregon and to develop strategies for achieving that vision. COTel seeks to enact change by encouraging partnerships among communities of interest, and among telecommunications consumers and providers.
Subjects: Healthcare, Education & Research, Government
Type: Organization
State(s): Oregon
Creating an Arkansas Research & Education Network
A white paper addressing the development of a high bandwidth research network in
cooperation with the initiatives of the Southern Governors’ Association
and the National LambdaRail Research Network
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Arkansas
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
Digital Dakota Network
Digital Dakota Network is available to all state agencies, K-12 schools, higher education, libraries, municipal governments, and state hospitals. 286 video conference sites support ~150 distance learning classes each day. Department of Education funded the infrastructure, and K-12 schools do not pay for access. Higher ed, counties and munis pay a fee.
Subjects: Healthcare, Education & Research, Government, General Public
Type: Network/Service Provider, Video
State(s): South Dakota
Digital-Textbook Pilot Project Begins This Month in 10 College Bookstores
Bookstores at 10 colleges across the country will begin selling access to digital textbooks this month in what promoters say is the first large-scale effort to make electronic textbooks available through campus bookstores.
The 10 bookstores, which will continue to market traditional hard-copy books, are taking part in a pilot program coordinated with five academic publishers and a wholesale distributor of textbooks. If it is successful, the two- to three-week pilot program will be gradually expanded to all college bookstores, beginning in the middle of September.
A student will be able to read a book online after visiting the campus bookstore to buy an electronic card, which in turn is used to download a copy of the book from a Web site. The site is run by MBS Textbook Exchange Inc. of Columbia, Mo., the textbook distributor that is leading the project.
All 10 of the bookstores will sell electronic textbooks for 33 percent less than hard-copy versions, said Jeffrey S. Cohen, the advertising and promotions manager at MBS. A student can print a copy of the e-book, highlight passages, mark the book with notes, search for keywords, and listen to an audio version of the book. (subscription required)
Subjects: Technology, Education & Research
Type: News Item, Application
State(s): NONE
Educating the Net Generation
Educause has published an e-book that compiles both student and instructor perspectives on educational technology. "Educating the Net Generation" explores the attitudes, abilities, and learning styles of today's students, and examines the various implications for institutions of higher education.
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Publication
State(s): NONE
Education Telecommunications Access Program
Education Telecommunications Access Program subsidizes access to new data lines for K-12, libraries and colleges.
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Network/Service Provider, Funding Source
State(s): Wisconsin
EDUCAUSE Review Article - Dark Fiber: Shining a New Light
Spurred in part by opportunities emerging from the recent downturn in the telecommunications sector, the U.S. research and education (R&E) community is aggressively pursuing a revolutionary new means for delivering advanced networking capabilities. Dark fiber refers to those fiber-optic cables that have already been deployed either in underground conduits or on aerial utility transmission facilities but that have not yet been "lit" -- that is, equipped with the optical electronics needed to transmit information over significant distances. The recent availability of these assets, the evolution of economical long-distance optical transmission technology, and the emergence of leading-edge Grid applications capable of generating multiple Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) flows are driving this community's surge of interest in a domain that was once the exclusive province of the telecommunications carriers.
Subjects: Technology, Education & Research, Economic Development
Type: Publication, News Item
State(s): NONE
Effective Access: Teachers' use of digital resources in STEM teaching
The Effective Access (EA) team conducted a limited, multi-level investigation of high school STEM educators and their use of digital objects. The team attempted to identify teachers' unique needs in the digital library environment, to provide a better understanding of the possible impact of electronic resources on teaching and learning, and to develop a framework for future development of digital resources and technology supports. This report summarizes the Effective Access team's findings and presents recommendations that emerge from this work.
Subjects: Technology, Education & Research
Type: Publication, Organization
State(s): NONE
Fiber For Our Future
A Citizen's group originally formed to support the TriCity Broadband referenda in the cities of Batavia, Geneva & St. Charles, Illinois.
The website contains a stockpile of what can be expected from the incumbent providers should a city wish to create its own broadband solution via a municipal offering.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Technology, Education & Research, Advocacy, Government
Type: News Item, Organization, Blog/Wiki
State(s): Illinois
FiberCo
Internet2 has established the National Research and Education Fiber Company (FiberCo) to support regional fiber optical networking initiatives dedicated to research and higher education. The concept behind FiberCo™ is to help provide inter-city dark fiber to regional optical networks with the benefit of a national-scale contract and aggregate price levels. The responsibility for lighting this fiber will rest with the regional networks.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Technology, Education & Research
Type: Network/Service Provider, Organization
State(s): NONE
Florida LambdaRail
Florida LambdaRail, an LLC formed by Florida’s higher education community, to advance an optical network infrastructure for this community.
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Florida
Gov. John Baldacci
"...Tonight I am announcing 'Connect Maine,' a broad and aggressive telecommunications strategy for this state. Connect Maine will give nearly every Mainer the opportunity to plug into the global economy from their community. It will ensure that 90 percent of Maine communities have broadband access by 2010; 100 percent of Maine communities have quality wireless service by 2008; and Maine's education system has the technology infrastructure that leads the nation." -- Jan 25, 2005
Subjects: Education & Research, Government, General Public
Type: Network/Service Provider, Quote
State(s): Maine
Governor Huckabee
In his January 2005 State of the State address, Gov. Huckabee, "...I'll also ask for supplemental requests so we can become part of the e-corridor. We are one of the only Southern states that is not connected to the e-corridor, and it's vital to our long-term success and development. We'll also seek to provide more research dollars so we can see the incredible economic value that research provides for us."
Subjects: Education & Research, Government, Economic Development
Type: Quote
State(s): Arkansas
Governor Jennifer Granholm and CIO Teresa Takai
According to Center for Digital Government’s 2004 Digital States Survey, Michigan sets the standard for using technology to serve citizens and improve government operations. Governor Jennifer Granholm and CIO Teresa Takai are leading the statewide effort to boost the use of technology. The Freedom to Learn program provides laptops to middle-school students, and is part of a broader pursuit of a computer in every home, as well as broadband access to every home and business.
Granholm and Takai are focused on consolidation of and leveraging of IT.
Subjects: Technology, Policy, Education & Research, Government, General Public
Type: Policy/Regulation
State(s): Michigan
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
I-Light Optical Fiber Infrastructure
I-Light Optical Fiber Infrastructure. I-Light is a unique, high-speed network connecting Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and Purdue University with each other and with Abilene, the national high-speed Internet2 research and education network. Funded with $5.3M state appropriation in 1999; launched in 2001.
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Indiana
I-WIRE
-WIRE: a dark fiber communications infrastructure interconnecting ANL, UI (Chicago & Urbana, including NCSA and EVL, the Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern University & the Illinois Century Network (ICN) Chicago hub, and a several collocation facilities in Chicago. Funded from a $17M component of the Illinois First program.
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Network/Service Provider, Organization
State(s): Illinois
ICN
ICN is a telecommunications backbone providing high speed access to data, video, and audio communication in schools and libraries, at colleges and universities, to public libraries and museums, and for local government and state agencies.
Subjects: Education & Research, Government
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Illinois
Indiana Interconnect
Indiana Interconnect is a collaborative effort between business, government, education and technology leaders to evaluate and improve Indiana’s advanced telecommunications infrastructure and level of technology adoption. The initiative has begun with an assessment of Indiana’s advanced telecommunications capacity and readiness for using Web-based services, including distance learning, telemedicine and eBusiness. The examination includes mapping out Indiana’s network and broadband services; testing the state’s dial-up network performance; and surveying current and anticipated business and residential telecommunications usage and needs.
Conducted by the Indiana Economic Development Council, the project is sponsored in part by the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership and will support development of a statewide broadband access strategy and regional deployment action plans.
Subjects: Education & Research, Business, Government, General Public
State(s): Indiana
Indiana Telecommunications Network (ITN)
one statewide network that serves the public sector, including K-12, libraries, government offices, and higher ed. ITN is a public-private partnership between the Intelenet Commission of the state of Indiana and the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System
Subjects: Education & Research, Government
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Indiana
Internet2's MyK20 Community Project Finder
This search tool allows you to search for projects by title, people, status, whether the are accepting participants, etc. Internet2's K20 goals are to bring innovators in K-12, community colleges, universities, libraries, and museums into appropriate regional, national, and international advanced networking efforts, via the "Sponsored Education Group Participant" (SEGP) process.
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Appliance/Device/Gadget
State(s): NONE
Iowa Communications Network (ICN)
Iowa Communications Network (ICN) provides authorized users the highest quality and technologically advanced educational, medical, judicial, and governmental telecommunications services and support the State of Iowa in achieving economic growth.
Subjects: Healthcare, Education & Research, Government, Economic Development
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Iowa
ITU Internet Reports 2005: The Internet of Things
ITU Internet Reports 2005: The Internet of Things is the seventh in the series of "ITU Internet Reports" originally launched in 1997 by the International Telecommunication Union.
Written by a team of analysts from the Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU) of the ITU, the report takes a look at the next step in "always on" communications, in which new technologies like RFID and smart computing promise a world of networked and interconnected devices that provide relevant content and information whatever the location of the user. Everything from tires to toothbrushes will be in communications range, heralding the dawn of a new era, one in which today’s Internet (of data and people) gives way to tomorrow’s Internet of Things.
Subjects: Healthcare, Entertainment, Technology, Education & Research, Business, Economic Development, General Public, Other Countries
Type: Publication
State(s): NONE
Jackson County Telecommunications and Technology Strategic Plan
A strategic planning process fosters an enhanced economic and community development environment that will position Jackson County, Oregon to provide leadership to meet the growing needs of its residents. The planning process will promote countywide collaboration and cooperation to improve access to affordable broadband solutions, improve and focus economic and community development strategies employing technologies, and increase access to higher wage employment opportunities. The end result will be highly conducive to economic growth prospects with improved access to healthcare, government, education and entertainment.
Subjects: Healthcare, Entertainment, Education & Research, Government, Economic Development
Type: Policy/Regulation
State(s): Oregon
KAN-ED
KAN-ED a partnership between the State and the Kansas Telecommunications Industry to form a broadband network for K-12, high ed, libraries and hospitals. Governed by the Kansas Board of Regents. Attempting to unite 48 service providers so that all Kansans have access to high speed internet at the same price. Partly funded by E-rate.
Subjects: Healthcare, Education & Research, Government, Rates
Type: Network/Service Provider, Organization
State(s): Kansas
KanREN
KanREN is a non-profit consortium of colleges, universities, school districts and other organizations in Kansas, organized for the purpose of facilitating communication among them, and providing themselves with connectivity to the Internet via a statewide TCP/IP network. The state backbone connects the Great Plain Network Gigapop with hubs in the state.
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Network/Service Provider, Organization
State(s): Kansas
Kentucky Information Highway (KIH)
Kentucky Information Highway (KIH), developed by the state government, is a statewide network connecting 1200 schools in 176 school districts.
Subjects: Education & Research, Government
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Kentucky
LaNet
A statewide network for schools, government & community groups.
Subjects: Education & Research, Government
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Louisiana
Life, At A Gigabit a Second
Imagine what you could do with a gigabit connection to the Internet. That's Larry Smarr's job.
At the new CalIT2 Center at UC San Diego, their mission, according to Smarr, the center's director, is to "live in the future". Smarr addressed the Future in Review 2006 conference this week, and explained exactly what that means.
Subjects: Technology, Education & Research
Type: News Item, Application
State(s): NONE
LinkMichigan
In May 2001, the LinkMichigan effort began working to transform Michigan's telecommunications infrastructure into one of the most robust and advanced in the nation. The four-step approach includes aggregating statewide telecommunication purchases to create a high-speed backbone, implementing taxing and permitting fairness, increasing access to information about the telecommunication infrastructure that exists in Michigan, and providing funds for regional telecommunication planning of last mile solutions. LinkMichigan initiative: accelerated broadband connections would yield (over 10 years) an increase in GSP of $440B, and 500,000 new jobs. About 100 Michigan State University telcom students and professors were free consultants to plan and build, forming the first rural coop in the nation.
Subjects: Education & Research, Government
Type: Network/Service Provider, Funding Source
State(s): Michigan
Louisiana Optical Network Initiative
The Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI)is an emerging, $40 million optical networking, computing, and research organization that will provide high-end access to Louisiana State University (LSU), Louisiana Tech University, LSU Medical Centers in Shreveport and New Orleans, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Southern University, the University of New Orleans, and Tulane University. With National Lambda Rail (NLR) connectivity, LONI participants will have the opportunity to create a virtual high-speed, data-intensive academic community to share teaching and research resources across the state, nation and internationally. In partnership with participating statewide, national, and international institutions and projects, LONI is expected to become a hub for advanced research activities on Grids, high performance computing, optical networks, and computing applications, and is part of a comprehensive strategy for economic development in the Louisiana.
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Network/Service Provider, Organization
State(s): Louisiana
Maryland Interactive Video Distance Learning Network (MIDLN)
Maryland Interactive Video Distance Learning Network (MIDLN) (fiber) available at 125 sites, i.e., secondary schools, community college, & universities.
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Network/Service Provider, Video
State(s): Maryland
Mass Digitization: Implications for Information Policy
Report from m“Scholarship and Libraries in Transition: A Dialogue about the Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects”
Symposium held on March 10-11, 2006
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
Subjects: Technology, Policy, Education & Research, History
Type: Publication, Policy/Regulation
State(s): NONE
Measuring Digital Opportunity for America's Children
Measuring Digital Opportunity for America's Children is a new research report released by The Children's Partnership. It is the first-ever look across four key areas to see whether Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is helping children 1) improve educational achievement, 2) lead healthier lives, 3) increase economic opportunity, and 4) participate in their communities.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Technology, Policy, Education & Research, Advocacy, General Public
Type: Publication
State(s): NONE
Michigan Requires Online Attendance
This morning Jennifer M. Granholm, the governor of Michigan, signed a bill that will require all high-school students in the state to take at least one course online before they can graduate. This is apparently the first such requirement in the nation. The provision was included in a bill that toughened the overall state high-school-graduation standards. The online course students take does not have to be for credit, but observers expect many students to take Advanced Placement courses via the Web.
Lawmakers initially questioned why they needed to require students who grew up on video games and the Internet to take online courses. In the end, they decided that making students conduct some of their education over the Internet would better prepare them for college and the workplace, which relies more and more on online tools.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
(requires subscription)
Subjects: Education & Research, Government
Type: News Item, Policy/Regulation
State(s): Michigan
Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX)
Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) is a regional metaPoP consortium founded by Georgetown University, George Washington University, the University of Maryland, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The proximity of MAX to Washington, D.C. places it in an advantageous location to partner with federal agencies as well as the business community and post-secondary institutions of DC, Maryland and Virginia. MAX provides access to several other advanced network initiatives, including the National Science Foundation's vBNS network, the Department of Energy's ESnet, the Internet2 Project's Abilene network, and other commercial Internet providers.
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Network/Service Provider, Organization
State(s): Maryland
MIDNet Inc. Soliciting Response to Fiber RFP
On behalf of the Midwest research and education organizations in the states of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota, MIDnet Inc., is soliciting a response to a Request for a Proposal (RFP) which will acquire and/or build a dark fiber-based multi-state infrastructure that will insure the Midwest’s research and education community has the resources to compete with peers throughout the world.
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota
Multi-Use Network (MNT)
The MNT provides cost-effective, quality, high-speed broadband data communications and Internet access to Colorado’s public sector: e.g., state agencies, schools, colleges, libraries, hospitals and local government.
Subjects: Education & Research, Government
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Colorado
Net.Work.Virginia
Net.Work.Virginia is an advanced broadband network project led by Virginia Tech, Old Dominion, and the Virginia Community College system. At first open only to education institutions, commercial access is now allowed. Customer charges fund the network which is contracted to service providers.
Subjects: Education & Research, Business
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Virginia
NevadaNet
NevadaNet, a statewide backbone for K-12, community colleges and state and federal agencies.
Subjects: Education & Research, Government, General Public
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Nevada
NJEDge.net
NJEDge.net is a statewide network for colleges and universities which was established by a non-profit corporation of the New Jersey President’s Council.
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): New Jersey
North County Connect/Monadnock Broadband Initiative
The state funded 2 projects with $250k in 2001: North Country Connect identifying vendors to provide broadband for affordable rates & negotiates solutions; The Monadnock Broadband Initiative is a collaboration between public & private entities to aggregate demand.
National Guard Broadband Projects invests in providing access to 22 NG sites. Private businesses that qualify can access the net. Government agencies, schools, and other programs can access the NG net.
20 regional economic and community development practitioners have produced a telecommunications master plan that provides the framework for building out a regional system.
The group will use the plan to fund and implement a web of infrastructure projects serving as many communities as possible in the region, and to implement and enhance telecommunications education and training services in support of regional community and economic development. This is the first regional telecommunications plan developed for the state of New Hampshire.
Subjects: Education & Research, Business, Government, Economic Development, Rates
Type: Network/Service Provider, Publication
State(s): New Hampshire
Northern NH Technology and Telecommunications Master Plan
Economic development, education and business leaders from Northern New Hampshire identified in 2004 the need for a “plan” that would address access to affordable high speed broadband for all communities and businesses in the region.
Eight months later an advisory council of over 20 regional economic and community development practitioners, guided by rural telecommunication expert Dr. Andrew Cohill, have produced a telecommunications master plan that provides the framework for building out a regional system.
The group will use the plan to fund and implement a web of infrastructure projects serving as many communities as possible in the region, and to implement and enhance telecommunications education and training services in support of regional community and economic development. This is the first regional telecommunications plan developed for the state of New Hampshire.
Subjects: Education & Research, Business, Government, Economic Development
Type: Publication, Funding Source
State(s): New Hampshire
OARnet Third Frontier Network
OARnet Third Frontier Network for research and education, including K-12; $8M for first phase funded by Ohio’s legislature. The Third Frontier Project is a $1.1B project.
The Ohio Broadband Initiative, part of the Third Frontier, is for statewide access to high speed lines. It would pool businesses’ purchasing power to lower rates, directly link all colleges and research facilities via a dedicated network, and educate & train small businesses on the benefits.
Subjects: Education & Research, Business, Government
Type: Network/Service Provider, Legislation
State(s): Ohio
Officials at Iowa U want to replace sluggish off-campus dial up connections
If Nicolas Lucero wants to check his e-mail about 9 p.m., he might have to wait.
"It's slow, and the problem is sometimes it's very hard to connect," said Lucero, 35, a University of Iowa graduate student from Argentina. "It depends on the day and time of day, but sometimes it's impossible."
Lucero lives at Hawkeye Court apartments. Combined with Hawkeye Drive, the nearly 700 units house graduate and international students as well as single undergraduates with families. They also provide dial-up, an Internet service UI officials are looking to revamp.
What UI officials want is a system comparable to the speedy Ethernet service students use in UI's 10 residence halls. However, the system that would be in University Apartments also needs to be cost effective for the housing units that might not have a long-term life span, said Von Stange, UI director of residence services.
Subjects: Individual State, Education & Research
Type: News Item
State(s): Iowa
OneCleveland
OneCleveland, a non-profit entity created to provide gigabit connectivity to non-profit organizations (education, culture and arts, research, heath care, and government) and pave the way for a growing metropolitan provision of widespread and free regional wi-fi access. Case Western Reserve University has led the effort to create the partnership of non-profits.
Subjects: Healthcare, Education & Research, Government, General Public
Type: Network/Service Provider, Organization
State(s): Ohio
OneNet
OneNet, a statewide broadband network for government agencies, schools, universities, hospitals. Upgrades have been funded by allocations from the regents, bond issues, and user fees, e.g., the National Guard pays a fee.
Subjects: Healthcare, Education & Research, Government
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Oklahoma
OSHEAN -- Ocean State Higher Education and Administrative Network
OSHEAN, (pronounced – “ocean”), connects its members to the Internet and advanced global research networks to help improve research and education in the region. Our members include all of the Institutions of Higher Education in RI, the public library system, RINET – which supports the technology needs of the municipal and K-12 education community, as well as Lifespan and Care New England.
Subjects: Healthcare, Education & Research, Government, General Public
Type: Network/Service Provider, Organization
State(s): Rhode Island
Project Inkwell
Inkwell intends to be the standards body for computing platforms for pre-K through 12 education.
Project Inkwell's goal is to greatly increase the size and effectiveness of the pre-K through 12 education technology market by managing the synthesis of functional specifications for a ubiquitous computing platform to be employed when and where students and educators engage in learning, teaching, and professional tasks. This specification is meant to describe minimal functionality while encouraging innovation and differentiation of the Inkwell certified devices.
Subjects: Technology, Education & Research
Type: Appliance/Device/Gadget
State(s): NONE
Qwest to enhance, run Wyoming education network
BY Michael Hardy
Published on Feb. 23, 2006
Qwest Communications has signed a six-year contract with the Wyoming Education Department to provide services for a statewide network connecting more than 400 public schools.
Source: Federal Computer Week
Under the contract, worth about $24.7 million, Qwest will run the Wyoming Equality Network (WEN). The company created the network in 1998 under a separate contract.
Now the state is upgrading the network to include additional locations, greater bandwidth, enhanced security, voice-over-IP capabilities, increased scalability and improved network management. WEN connects all of the state's public schools, giving students and teachers Internet access, interschool connectivity and a connection to the statewide education network. It also enables about 3,000 hours of distance learning every month for high schools.
WEN "has been heralded as one of the most progressive and effective uses of technologies in national education surveys," said Jim McBride, Wyoming state superintendent of public instruction, in a press release. "We plan to continue our success by working with Qwest to grow the applications and infrastructure of the WEN. We can't overstate the importance of equal access to the Internet, and we're pleased to be among the leaders in the nation when it comes to technology in the classroom."
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Individual State, Education & Research
Type: Network/Service Provider, News Item
State(s): Wyoming
Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology (RINET)
Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology (RINET) provides connectivity, services and training to K-12 public school districts, parochial and independent private schools, municipal buildings, and non-profits.
Subjects: Education & Research, Government, General Public
Type: Network/Service Provider, Organization
State(s): Rhode Island
Sanford: Expanding Internet access key to economic development
Source: Associated Press/Baller Herbst
COLUMBIA, S.C. - February 28, 2006 - Expanding broadband Internet access in rural areas of the state is key to helping small businesses thrive and to improving education in the state, Gov. Mark Sanford said at a conference Tuesday.
Local government, community development and higher education officials gathered at Benedict College this week for a conference on high-speed Internet access in cities and towns across the state.
Sanford, who called for a statewide conference on the issue during his State of the State address in January, said South Carolina is lagging behind the rest of the nation, which itself is slipping globally, in the availability of Internet access.
Forty-five percent of South Carolina homes have an Internet connection, Sanford said, whereas nationally the figure is 51 percent. And he said many of those homes use dial-up access, which is not adequate for many commercial and educational uses.
"The trendline is in absolutely the wrong direction," Sanford said.
After the speech he said that while government should play a role in expanding access, he does not support government-run wireless networks.
Government "ought to provide the kindling for the fire. It ought to not provide the logs," Sanford said.
He said the state Commerce Department could offer tax incentives - higher in rural areas - for businesses that set up networks in the state. The governor said his office would have a specific proposal sometime this year.
Government will have to take an active role in expanding Internet access and the availability of computers, said Jabari Simama, vice president for community development at Benedict, and the conference's director.
"We do have a digital divide, and the digital divide is based on race, is based on rural versus urban, and the entire state of South Carolina is behind the country," Simama said. "Although the cost of broadband and the cost of computers have gone down, they have not gone down enough for people on a low income or fixed income to have computers and access to the Internet."
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Individual State, Education & Research, Government, Economic Development
Type: News Item
State(s): South Carolina
Sign of the Times: Deaf-education departments find new uses for online videoconferencing
In a computer laboratory here one recent afternoon, four high-school students are deep in excited, one-on-one conversations with tutors.
They are students at the Delaware School for the Deaf, and their conversations with their tutors, deaf-education students at Valdosta State University, in Georgia, are conducted in sign language, transmitted by Internet videoconferencing.
Subjects: Healthcare, Technology, Education & Research, General Public
Type: News Item, Application
State(s): NONE
Southern Light Rail
A Georgia Tech Non-Profit Corporation, providing NLR access in the southeast region; reaching out to bring dark fiber to regional universities and research centers. Umbrella organization for strategic network initiatives, offering access to exclusive R&D test bed for future technology; Next-gen Internet services and technology; and commodity Internet services.
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Georgia
STAGEnet, North Dakota Statewide Technology Access for Government and Education Network
STAGEnet, North Dakota Statewide Technology Access for Government and Education Network, provides high speed broadband to all ND state agencies, local governments and schools.
Subjects: Education & Research, Government
Type: Network/Service Provider, Organization
State(s): North Dakota
State Networks
Currently the state has at least 4 major networks; a WAN formerly known as GOVnet, interconnects state government local networks and provides internet access and some internet access for K-12; primarily leased, backbone consists of 10Mbps Ethernet links upgradeable to 100 Mbps; a voice telecommunications network; plus a public safety voice and data network (digital microwave and fiber) with a core OC-3, with T-1 spurs; and a wireless network both operated by the Dept. of Public Safety.
Subjects: Technology, Education & Research, Government
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Vermont
Statewide Wireless Tribal Broadband Network
Statewide Wireless Tribal Broadband Network is a testbed developed by the Albuquerque HPC Center of the UNM, the Pueblo Tribal National of NM, and the Bands of Mission Indians in CA.
Subjects: Technology, Education & Research, General Public
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): New Mexico
Summiteer
Summiteer is a multi-protocol network for state agencies, universities, and local government.
Summiteer II is a strategic plan for a state and university integrated network for over 530 state offices and university campuses.
Subjects: Education & Research, Government
Type: Network/Service Provider, Publication
State(s): Montana
Tennessee Information Infrastructure (TNII)
Tennessee Information Infrastructure (TNII) is the state’s project to consolidate the executive branch and higher education network infrastructure into a single statewide network.
Subjects: Education & Research, Government
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Tennessee
Tennessee Statewide Area Network
Tennessee Statewide Area Network connects all state agencies and 150 of 1800 K-12 schools.
Subjects: Education & Research, Government
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Tennessee
Texas Universities Join to Create a Digital Library for Scholars and the Public
Four Texas university systems and Rice University will collaborate on a digital repository whose goal is to offer online resources, such as teaching aids, dissertations, and practical information, although not books.
The repository will be called the Texas Digital Library, but it will not resemble the California Digital Library -- not initially, at least. While the California Digital Library -- which provides books, journals, and databases to California libraries -- provides an inspiration, says Fred Heath, vice provost of the University of Texas Libraries, "this would be closer to the DSpace collaborative at MIT."
The DSpace project is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's online archive of scholarly works.
Intended to benefit both educators and the public, the new digital repository will be supported by the Texas A&M University System, the Texas Tech University System, the University of Houston System, and the University of Texas System. Rice, a private institution, is also part of the consortium.
Subjects: Education & Research, General Public
Type: News Item, Organization, Application
State(s): Texas
Textbooks give way to digital curriculum
The march from textbooks to computerized content began to look a little more inevitable this week as educators in Arizona and Tennessee edged closer to the all-digital curriculum.
In Tennessee, a private partnership formed by educators, a web designer, a lawmaker, and a history buff launched a web site to help schools fill the gap in state history instruction left a few years ago when Nashville ended mandatory state history courses for middle schools.
The Vail, Ariz., School District announced its Vail High School in Tucson will become the state's first all-wireless, all-laptop public school this fall. The 350 students at the school will not have traditional textbooks. Instead, they will use electronic and online articles as part of more traditional teacher lesson plans.
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Organization, Application
State(s): Arizona, Tennessee
The 2004 Louisiana Broadband Assessment
The 2004 Louisiana Broadband Assessment, recommended funding for the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) is a $40 million fiber network that grants access to LSU, Louisiana Tech University, LSU Medical Centers in Shreveport and New Orleans, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Southern University, the University of New Orleans and Tulane University.
Subjects: Healthcare, Education & Research, Government
Type: Network/Service Provider, Publication
State(s): Louisiana
The Alabama Supercomputer Authority
The Alabama Supercomputer Authority (a state-funded corporation) operates the Alabama Supercomputer Center and the Alabama Research and Education Network (AREN) for research, education, and industry.
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Alabama
The Children's Partnership Report -- Measuring Digital Opportunity for America's Children
The Children's Partnership has released a report titled Measuring Digital Opportunity for America's Children: Where We Stand and Where We Go From Here. The report showed that
Information and Communications technology positively impacts the lives of youth, particularly around four critical areas of their lives  health, education, workforce development, and civic participation. It also identified a troubling digital gap, showing that many youth miss out on these opportunities.
Subjects: Healthcare, Technology, Education & Research
Type: Publication
State(s): NONE
The Children's Partnership's Technology State Fact Sheet
To find out whether young people in your state are prepared, The Children's Partnership has developed state fact sheets for each of the 50
states and the District of Columbia, which provide key data such as the rate of workers employed in high-tech firms and the percentage of homes that have computer, Internet, and broadband access.
Subjects: Education & Research, General Public
Type: Publication
State(s): NONE
The Next Generation of Broadband
Cisco Systems Inc., best known for its business-networking tools, is attempting to get its feet wet in the world of online home entertainment. And in an effort to catch on to new broadband applications before they grow stale, the company is picking the brains of college students. Through a partnership with MTV's online college network, mtvU, Cisco has given $25,000 grants to 10 groups of college students with broadband projects on their minds. The students -- working on an assortment of blogging, gaming, and social-networking endeavors -- aren't likely to create any big moneymakers for the company. But Cisco officials say they're just hoping to get a sense of which technologies are capturing the attention of Millennials. (CNET News)
Source: Chronicle for Higher Education, subscription required
Subjects: Entertainment, Education & Research, Business
Type: News Item, Funding Source
State(s): NONE
The Office of Information Technology
The Office of Information Technology administers the Arkansas State Video Network connecting 200 sites for interactive video conferencing for distance learning, telemedicine and teleconferencing.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Healthcare, Education & Research, Government
Type: Network/Service Provider, Video
State(s): Arkansas
Vermont Interactive Learning Network
Vermont Interactive Learning Network, K-12 schools; UVM Distance Learning Network for higher ed; and Vermont Interactive TV.
Subjects: Education & Research
Type: Network/Service Provider, Video
State(s): Vermont
Virginia Will Expand Access to High-Speed Networks
Virginia's K-12 schools, museums and libraries will be among the first in the nation to connect to both the National LambdaRail and Internet2 -- providing better access to educational and research resources worldwide. Through a new program co-sponsored by a group of Virginia research universities -- including the University of Virginia -- and the Virginia Community College System, schools, museums and libraries connected to NetworkVirginia will be able to connect to either NLR or Internet2 or both at no additional cost.
Subjects: Technology, Education & Research, General Public
Type: Network/Service Provider, News Item
State(s): Virginia
West Virginia Network (WVNET)
Though the West Virginia Network (WVNET) is for the state’s higher education community, it is leading an initiative (at the request of the Governor’s Office of Technology) to develop a statewide network to include state government, K-12, libraries, and county government.
Subjects: Education & Research, Government
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): West Virginia
WV IT Strategic Plan
According to the WV IT Strategic Plan, the state is encouraging assistance and partnering with private firms to address rural access issues.
West Virginia Education Information System (WVEIS) World School is a closed network for K-12 operating at speeds ranging from 56k to T-1.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Education & Research, Business, Government
Type: Network/Service Provider, Publication
State(s): West Virginia