Our ability to connect through high-speed Internet access - referred to generically as broadband - is improving our lives in many ways. It is helping us share information and images, research and apply for jobs, stay in touch with loved ones, and access entertainment and [...]
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Authors of a new study focus on California in their efforts to determine whether broadband boosts local economic development and found it's tough to determine because broadband providers target areas where they expect high economic growth anyway. Read More>>>
ATCAA completes five-county technology planning grant $250,000 aggregation of demand study maps out future for high speed Internet in rural Sierras Final community forums set for January & February. ATCAA Central Sierra Connect, a regional project including Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Mariposa and Tuolumne Counties, has [...]
The California State Library assembled nearly 200 public library leaders, community supporters, broadband providers, and local and state leaders for California ’s Opportunity Online Broadband Summit, on December 14 -15, 2009, in Sacramento to discuss how to improve and sustain quality Internet access in California [...]
That's how Cathy Emerson is thinking about her Northeastern California Connect research project on broadband. Emerson's assignment is feeling out consumers' opinions in a 12-county region about broadband. It's her job to determine access and availability, and maybe suggest what might come next. Basically, Emerson's [...]
The bad news is that African Americans lost some traction during the past year, dropping from 66% of the population having broadband connectivity at home to 62%. The encouraging news is that the PPIC survey found that despite the drop in connectivity, 79% of African [...]
California will receive some of the first federal stimulus money to close the so-called digital divide, but it's angling for much more. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration awarded the first four grants under its State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program. The California [...]
At the Van Nuys Civic Center the California Emerging Technology Fund, an organization concerned with promoting technological awareness amongst “unserved and underserved communities,” held a Technology Fair to stimulate interest in, and awareness of, various technology-based services in the predominantly Latino community of Van Nuys. [...]
Riverbank Wins $1.5M in Onramps to Digital Superhighway Free Internet access, high-tech training for youth and low-cost computers are headed to Riverbank, thanks to a new program meant to bridge the city's digital divide. Riverbank recently was selected - along with communities near San Diego [...]
No Consensus as Deadline Comes for Broadband Stimulus Applications As the first funding deadline for broadband stimulus arrives Thursday, Aug. 20, observers say it's hard to predict what types of grant applications will be submitted, and who will emerge as the players behind the projects. [...]