It’s not a joke, the capital of Kansas is now Google, and it all started with a Facebook group. CivSource spoke with Jared Starkey, the man behind the name change, who says the change was a stunt, but one designed to reflect a movement. Starkey, who started the Facebook group, did so to [...]
Through a combination of state and federal grants, northern Illinois will receive $13 million in capital funds meant to improve broadband access, Governor Pat Quinn said last week. A project meant to develop high-speed, low-cost broadband infrastructure in the DeKalb region is poised to receive the bulk of the funds, where approximately 3,600 businesses and [...]
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson announced the opening of eight community “gateways” to the state’s supercomputer, Encanto, to help develop New Mexico’s educational and high-tech business sector, he said. “We’re bringing the highest level of supercomputing to every corner of the state, giving New Mexicans the opportunity to tap in to its remarkable educational and [...]
Last week the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) awarded funds for broadband mapping and data collection to help boost high-speed Internet access as mandated by the American Recover and Reinvestment Act. Ten states were awarded funds, bringing the total number of grants to 51 with an approximate value of $97 million. The NTIA and [...]
By using a “multidimensional approach,” Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society has created a metric for categorizing the relative success or failures of broadband deployments across the developed world. Among the “most surprising and significant findings” the draft says, is that “open access policies…are almost universally understood as having played a core role” in [...]
The Intelligent Communities Forum (ICF), a global think tank that studies how broadband access affects economic and social development, launched its annual awards cycle Friday evening by announcing the ICF Smart21 Communities of 2010. Among the twenty-one cities worldwide, a handful of U.S. communities were chosen for their use of broadband and information technology in [...]
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has $7.2 billion for broadband funding. And on August 20, 2009, the stimulus ball got rolling as the first wave of applications came swarming towards the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) and Rural Utilities Commission (RUS).
The Rural Utilities Services (RUS) and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) have posted a joint notice indicating that any pending applications as of 5 p.m. ET on August 14, 2009 will be granted an extension.
The first round of applications for over $7 billion in broadband stimulus funding is due this Friday, and although winners are not to be announced until later this fall, public sector advocates and officials have already tallied the list of losers. And the list is high.
In an effort to look at all the pieces on the board, agency leaders from the Paterson administration convened a meeting with community leaders, educational administrators, not-for-profits, and broadband providers to review current funding opportunities for broadband under the Recovery Act.
