In the three years since Maine Gov. John Baldacci announced that the state would "ensure that 90 percent of Maine communities have broadband access by 2010," Connect ME has achieved much success. Read More »
Akamai Technologies has released its second quarterly State of the Internet report, which ranks countries and states based on the percentage of their population who connect to the Internet at a speed greater than 5 mbps. By this measure, the U.S. comes in sixth place, with only 26 percent of Americans able to connect at these speeds. Read More »
Bland County, Virginia's goal of having high-speed wireless Internet access availability throughout the entire area is coming closer to reality. Thanks to a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service, phase III of the county's drive to spread wireless broadband Internet access across the land. Read More »
Life in the fast lane on the Internet in the U.S. depends on where you live, what you earn, and what time of day you try to connect. Americans are more aware of that now, thanks to the wide variety of blogs and traditional media which covered the release of our report on Internet download speeds last week. Read More »
Speed Matters has released our second Read More »
Free Press has launched a new campaign, Internet for Everyone, to draw attention to the widening digital divide and support efforts to close it. Read More »
Although efforts by state governments to expand high speed Internet access have refocused attention on the need for a comprehensive technology policy, the yawning digital divide separating connected from unconnected in America threatens to grow worse unless national policy changes as well. Read More »
At last month's Global Forum on Access and Connectivity, Hamadoun Toure, secretary-general of the International Telecommunications Union, warned that a major worldwide gap exists between those with high speed Internet access and those without. Read More »
Across Washington, large sections of the state are still without high speed Internet connections. The answer to the problem, according to CWA and others, lies in reliable mapping of which areas are connected, which areas have a connection that is too slow, and which areas have no connection at all. Once it's clear which areas are which, Washington can figure out how to address its needs. Read More »
Connected Tennessee recently unveiled Computers 4 Kids, a program to distribute computers free of charge to children from low-income families. Read More »
