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Category: Media Coverage

A Virtual Necessity

Hooking up all Californians with broadband access to Web must be a priority for state and local leaders. Read More>>>

Telemedicine: the Doctor is in, Just Somewhere Else

On a normal day, it's just Vivienne Brunigis and Danny Fluke holding down the fort at Northside Clinic in Greeley Hill, 30 miles north of Mariposa. The Dynamic Duo. On Wednesday, Brunigis, the nurse practitioner, and Fluke, licensed vocational nurse, were joined by some 40 [...]

Health Clinics Get Boost with TV Link

On a normal day, it's just Vivienne Brunigis and Danny Fluke holding down the fort at Northside Clinic in Greeley Hill, 30 miles north of Mariposa. On Wednesday, Brunigis, the nurse practitioner, and Fluke, licensed vocational nurse, were joined by medical professionals throughout the San [...]

Survey Looks at broadband

California has reached 97 percent broadband deployment and could hit its statutory target of 98 percent by the end of 2015. Although broadband service is available, not all residents are able to afford it. For residents of small communities and older neighborhoods with clunky broadband [...]

Time to connect all Californians to the Internet

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>>>

Campaign Seeks to Close The Digital Divide

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 [...]

Nonprofit Group Aims to Promote Internet Access

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 [...]

State Eyes $1 Billion Share of Broadband Stimulus

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 [...]

Agency Gauges North State Internet Needs

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>>>

Project to Conduct Telephone Survey

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>>>