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 [...]
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>>>
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 [...]
Though broadband Internet adoption has increased throughout California in the past decade, certain communities have still lagged behind: low-income, Latino, and rural households in particular. In an effort to reach these communities, the California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) announced last week that is launching a [...]
Former California state Sen. Martha Escutia's eyes welled up with tears recently as she remembered one of her last nights as a USC undergraduate studying public policy in 1979. Escutia, a self-described "scholarship kid from East LA," had a full-tuition scholarship to study law at [...]
Research funded by the California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) shows that 69 percent of L.A. County residents had broadband Internet access at home, compared to the statewide rate of 73 percent. (That number doesn't include mobile Internet access.) L.A. is getting connected quickly, though: Just [...]
Washington D.C. based non-profit organization Connect2Compete (C2C) is partnering with the California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) and the Youth Policy Institute (YPI) to increase broadband adoption and digital literacy in California, the three organizations jointly announced today. Read More>>>
For California to remain a beacon of innovation, equality and economic vitality, all residents should have access to affordable high-speed Internet connections wherever they live. Unfortunately, many of the state's rural areas are not adequately served, limiting important services such as telemedicine, remote learning and [...]
According to a survey by the Imperial County Office of Education, the digital divide in Imperial County is nearly 40%, which is one of the highest in the nation. Fortunately, funders such as CETF and Alliance Healthcare are leading the effort to pay closer attention [...]