The Commerce Department last week announced a $7.25 million investment to boost economic opportunities in some low-income communities in California. The California Emerging Technology Fund will coordinate a campaign using local partner organizations and others to disseminate information about broadband training and services to 5 [...]
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A $500,000 grant that will be used to provide computers and training to students and small-business owners in the Iron Triangle area of Richmond was announced this week. The grant from the California Emerging Technology Fund is intended to narrow the "digital divide" that leaves [...]
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The state, through the California Emerging Technology Fund, has resources to close the "digital divide." So does the federal government, which authorized $7.2 billion through the stimulus bill to expand broadband access in underserved communities. Read More>>>
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"It is a huge opportunity to transform the delivery of health care," said Sunne Wright McPeak, president and CEO of the California Emerging Technology Fund, created in 2006 as a condition of AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc.'s merger to expand broadband into underserved areas. [...]
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The goal was to make disadvantaged communities "totally technology enriched and enabled" under a national technology-stimulus program of the Clinton Administration, with a huge local boost from Palo Alto-based Hewlett Packard Co. and, more recently, Google, the California Emerging Technology Fund and many individuals. Read [...]
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Amador-Tuolumne Community Action Agency Central Sierra Connect, a regional project including Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Mariposa and Tuolumne counties, has completed work on an 18-month, $250,000 project funded by a grant from the California Emerging Technology Fund. Read More>>>
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With its infusion of cash to fund the project, Vernon's assistance provided SCDC the resources it needed to realize a dream of its founder, former state senator, Martha Escutia. It was during a meeting between Escutia and Cesar Zaldivar-Motts, the SCDC executive director, where the [...]
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Tapping an idea that brought literacy to many school-age children years ago, the City of Vernon formally unveiled the Mobile Technology Center designed to increase Internet access for low-income residents in the Southeast cities. Read More>>>
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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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