The California Broadband Council met on August 12, 2013 in the State Capitol, to review progress on Digital 395, a major Broadband Middle Mile ARRA project, pending broadband legislation, an education tech project in Yolo County, and ICT training for the workforce. The Council also [...]
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The state Legislature is back this week, and what hangs in the balance is an important bill – Senate Bill 740 (Padilla) — that will significantly impact the future of broadband access in rural areas of the state and whether public housing will get new [...]
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The Napa Valley Unified School District is hoping to secure a grant for Harvest Middle School to help purchase digital devices for every student. The “School2Home” project uses technology to help improve student achievement and increase the involvement of parents who do not often participate [...]
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The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles and California Emerging Technology Fund Announce Free Internet for LA Public Housing Residents - Smart Housing Pilot Partnership
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The California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) is investing $300,000 with the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) and non-profit organizations to develop a model to connect Los Angeles public housing residents to WiFi, provide bilingual digital literacy training and offer low-cost computers [...]
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The Broadband Alliance of Mendocino County and Access Sonoma Broadband called the report a "watershed finding" that substantiates work done over the past two years by the two county organizations. Working collaboratively, Mendocino and Sonoma counties have developed credible information showing that the broadband maps [...]
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The decision by the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide its 660,000 students with tablet computers is a step in the right direction. As the head of a nonprofit funder that provides computers and training to parents and teachers in three LAUSD schools, I [...]
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California Emerging Technology Fund and 2-1-1/United Ways of California Named Finalist in ComputerworldBroadband Honors Awards. Recognized as "Broadband Heroes" for promoting information technology to transform lives. Read More>>>
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California may change how it subsidizes broadband deployment and adoption in several ways, under legislation on the table this session. Senate Bill 740 and Assembly Bill 1299 seek to expand how California grants broadband subsidies - one focusing on expanding how hundreds of millions of [...]
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