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App Development Opportunity for Students!

Are you a U of I student with a passion for social justice and application development?  Have you been envisioning how to use a gigabit application to support education, health, energy, transportation, and more in the Champaign-Urbana community?  If you

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New Report: Projects and Policies Related to Deploying Broadband in Unserved and Underserved Areas

The U.S. Government Accountability Office yesterday released a new telecommunications report, “Projects and Policies Related to Deploying Broadband in Unserved and Underserved Areas.” About the report: “The unserved and underserved areas that GAO reviewed used alternative approaches and considered various

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What Good is a Gig?

How Public Libraries Can and Are Strengthening Their Communities with High Speed Bandwidth This blog post is by Angela Siefer, Senior Research Associate, Center for Digital Inclusion. Through a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, we at

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Duarte Co-Chairs Tribal Telecom and Technology Conference

Addressing the broadband infrastructure and digital literacy needs of American Indian and Alaskan Native communities is the objective of a national conference co-chaired by Marisa Duarte, postdoctoral research fellow in American Indian Studies and affiliated faculty at the Center for

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Report: Broadband Networks in the Middle East and North Africa

Broadband Networks in the Middle East and North Africa : Accelerating High-Speed Internet Access Download the full report at: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16680 “Just as the steam engine was the driving force behind the Industrial Revolution, broadband Internet is today seen as critical to

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