Past Releases

Digital Divide Survey Finds Home Connectivity Up, but Cost Is a Barrier CETF Urges California ISPs to Boost Awareness, Sign-Ups of Lower-Cost Options Oakland and Los Angeles, CA - A new survey of California households finds while progress is being made in connecting low-income households [...]

California Emerging Technology Fund President and CEO Sunne Wright McPeak will call on the 2018 Women’s Conference today to stand for Digital Gender Equity in order to provide women equal access to educational and career opportunities. California Women Lead is hosting the 2018 Women’s Conference […]

Press Office: 202-225-2095 WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. George Miller (D-Martinez) today announced the award of a major federal technology grant that will provide critical technology training to unemployed workers in California seeking new careers. The California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF), which partners with The Stride […]

"Broadband is a transforming technology that is essential to help foster youth build better lives," said Sunne Wright McPeak, president and CEO of CETF. "With this grant, children in foster care, emancipated youth and their families will benefit from access to affordable Internet service and [...]

iFoster to expand computer and broadband access to foster care community San Francisco - The California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) today announced a 3-year, $300,000 grant to iFoster to increase access to low-cost computers and high-speed Internet among youth and families in the California foster [...]

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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—helping us share information and images, research and apply for jobs, stay in touch with loved ones, and access entertainment and news. Broadband saves consumers time and money, [...]

As renowned California historian and State Librarian Emeritus Kevin Starr has proclaimed, it is time to “reboot California”—literally “restart” all aspects of governance and reform all institutions of government. That includes a transformation of libraries to be 21st Century Hubs for Digital Inclusion—places where the [...]

One of the smartest strategies to spur economic recovery is to get all Californians connected through broadband—high-speed access to the Internet—at home, school, work and in all public places. Today, the ability to be “connected” instantly through the Internet to information, services and digital tools [...]