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Summer tech camps promote innovation, digital literacy

Posted on February 10, 2016 by cchin6@illinois.edu

The Chevy Suburban towing a U-Haul trailer pulled up to the decommissioned middle school in Metropolis, Illinois, population 6,000. A special kind of 4-H camp was about to begin. The four leaders—Gabriel Ewing, Jessica Nelson, Colten Jackson, and Virginia McCreary—unloaded…

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Smart Cities Innovation Summit – Call for innovations, abstracts, and exhibitors

Posted on February 7, 2016 by cchin6@illinois.edu

The Smart Cities Innovation Summit will be held June 13-15, 2016 in Austin, Texas. It is produced in cooperation and in co-location with the US Ignite Application Summit and working with US Ignite’s support programs for the Global City Teams…

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US Ignite announces list of funding opportunities for smart gigabit applications and wireless spectrum

Posted on February 7, 2016 by cchin6@illinois.edu

US Ignite has put together a list of potential funding sources and opportunities for smart gigabit applications and wireless spectrum.  Click here for the full list of funding opportunities from US Ignite (downloads PDF).

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CDI’s Digital Innovation Leadership Program to be featured in the UI Extension Annual Meeting

Posted on November 17, 2015 by cchin6@illinois.edu

CDI’s Digital Innovation Leadership Program will be featured in the UI Extension Annual Meeting taking place this week at the iHotel November 18-19.  The meeting brings more than 200 UI Extension staff together from all around the state. GSLIS faculty…

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New report from Gant-advised project on high-speed networking in K-12 education

Posted on October 23, 2015 by cchin6@illinois.edu

Dr. Jon Gant, Research Associate Professor at GSLIS and Director of the Center for Digital Inclusion, serves as an adviser to project on high-speed networking in K-12 education from The New Media Consortium (NMC). NMC has published a new report…

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