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>>>
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 [...]
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>>>
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 [...]
Authors of a new study focus on California in their efforts to determine whether broadband boosts local economic development and found it's tough to determine because broadband providers target areas where they expect high economic growth anyway. Read More>>>
ATCAA completes five-county technology planning grant $250,000 aggregation of demand study maps out future for high speed Internet in rural Sierras Final community forums set for January & February. ATCAA Central Sierra Connect, a regional project including Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Mariposa and Tuolumne Counties, has [...]
The California State Library assembled nearly 200 public library leaders, community supporters, broadband providers, and local and state leaders for California ’s Opportunity Online Broadband Summit, on December 14 -15, 2009, in Sacramento to discuss how to improve and sustain quality Internet access in California [...]
That's how Cathy Emerson is thinking about her Northeastern California Connect research project on broadband. Emerson's assignment is feeling out consumers' opinions in a 12-county region about broadband. It's her job to determine access and availability, and maybe suggest what might come next. Basically, Emerson's [...]
The bad news is that African Americans lost some traction during the past year, dropping from 66% of the population having broadband connectivity at home to 62%. The encouraging news is that the PPIC survey found that despite the drop in connectivity, 79% of African [...]