Rural County Representatives of California (RCRC) and National Homebuyers Fund, Inc. (NHF) have joined forces to contribute $400,000 to provide an iFoster laptop computer to all eligible foster youth and former foster youth aged 16-21 within RCRC's 35 member counties. Read More>>>
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More than a thousand foster youth in California will receive a free laptop through a new partnership designed to address the digital divide experienced by those in foster care in rural areas of the state. Read More>>>
According to a California Emerging Technology Fund report, broadband is a green strategy. Whereas, access to broadband reduces vehicle miles traveled, lowers need for office-space construction conserving energy, and calms circulation congestion while increasing online shopping, all which can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 1.1 [...]
Summit leader and president and CEO of the California Emerging Technology Fund talks about how closing California's digital divide will be a priority for the disadvantaged and "underconnected." Though California has made strides closing its digital divide, we've reached a tipping point in public policy [...]
Long Beach is located in the heart of one of the world's most technologically advance regions. Yet one in six people who live in California's seventh largest city aren't connected to the lifeblood of the 21st Century the Internet. Read More>>>
Nonprofits and federal and state lawmakers are waking up to the fact that access to the Internet is key to building healthy economies, and that both have a critical role to play in closing the digital divide that particularly plagues rural areas. When looking at [...]
My hope is that Lake County Broadband Solutions, as outlined in the July 8, 2017 RB article, will be up and running in my area soon with unmetered Internet access. Pending that I urge all residents of Lake County to support the Internet For All [...]
Just ask anyone in the foothills if they have trouble getting a phone signal or finding an internet provider. There's a good chance you'll have to do it in person ... they won't be able to take your call or get your email or text. [...]
Some 87 percent of California households say they have high-speed internet connectivity at home, up from 84 percent last year. Yet, the number of those who can only connect to broadband at home via their smartphones has grown from 8 percent two years ago to [...]
"Our efforts are to get everybody online to minimize the inequalities in our society and economy," said Sunne Wright McPeak, president of California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) which sponsored the study. "Internet for all now is a 21st century civil right." Thirty-four percent of those [...]