ONE OF the smartest strategies California can embrace to spur economic recovery and enhance the state's global competitiveness is to get all residents connected through broadband - high-speed access to the Internet - at home, school, work and in all public places. Read More>>>
Author: Brent Stromberg
The technology fund unveiled the "Get Connected" campaign at the Boyle Heights Technology Youth Center in East Los Angeles. It will target disadvantaged and rural communities statewide that are lagging behind in accessing the social, information and economic benefits of high‐speed, broadband connectivity. In Los [...]
The California Emerging Technology Fund launches a campaign to boost awareness in poor communities. About half of California's low-income households have no Internet access, the California Emerging Technology Fund says, creating a gap that the nonprofit is hoping to close with its $1.5-million Get Connected [...]
Get Ready to Apply, State Tells Telecom Firms and Agencies California telecommunications companies, nonprofit agencies and government officials are chomping at the bit as they await the release of application guidelines for what some hope could total $1 billion in federal stimulus money for broadband [...]
A California nonprofit group whose mission is to provide affordable broadband Internet service to rural communities will meet today and Friday in Redding. The California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) will gather at the Red Lion Hotel on Hilltop Drive. Read More>>>
Starting in late May, the Center for Economic Development, California State University, Chico Research Foundation, will conduct a telephone survey to households and businesses in Butte, Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou, and Tehama counties. Read More>>>
加州已準備就緒爭取多達10億元聯邦振興經濟撥款，來將接駁互聯網與否這「數碼鴻溝」距離拉近。監管推動寬頻上網非牟利機構「加州新興技術基金」（CETF）總裁兼首席執行長Sunne Wright McPeak表示，不論是醫療保健、教育、或生活上其他環節，寬頻高速上網都是不可或缺。 Read More>>>
The Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday that 45 percent of California residents lack broadband connections in their homes because of geography, disabilities, poor English language skills or poverty. Proponents of the plan say the money will help close the digital divide in the nation's most populous [...]
Broadband is widely viewed as an enabling technology that will eventually change the way Americans live and work. The Redwood Coast Connect (RCC) report touts that it can provide an economic catalyst for rural communities by allowing them to work from remote locations, but allowing [...]
The state agency that oversees Internet resources for higher education has awarded a Humboldt State University broadband program for its achievements. Redwood Coast Connect, a pilot project partnered by HSU to spur high speed broadband service in the four-county region, will be honored for "Innovations [...]