The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Rural Development (RUS), and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) held a meeting on Tuesday to discuss how they would coordinate the dispersal of economic stimulus money for broadband projects. Read More »
At Speed Matters, we have highlighted the benefits of high speed Internet for the economy, education, health care, the environment, public safety and closing the digital divide. However, several new broadband-based programs are helping solve another problem: allowing ill children to be kids. Read More »
Connected Tennessee has selected Chattanooga's Partnership for Families, Children and Adults and the Children's Home/Chambliss Shelter as the recipients of its latest donation. Read More »
The Alliance for Public Technology - a Speed Matters partner - recently announced the winners of its second "Broadband Changed My Life!" contest. Read More »
A new telemedicine program was recently launched in all 17 schools in the Sevier Country, Tennessee school district that significantly improves the capabilities of the school nurse. Read More »
The Benton Foundation has released a report entitled "Using technology and innovation to address our nation's critical challenges" that very successfully makes the case for a national broadband policy. Read More »
North Carolina is taking important steps toward making sure all students in the state reap the educational benefits of high speed Internet. Over two years, the North Carolina School Connectivity Initiative is spending $22 million to connect every school in the state to high speed networks. Read More »
A comprehensive new report released last month found that online learning for students in grades K-12 grew steadily last year, with many states expanding their online opportunities for supplemental and full-time online class work. Read More »
Universities and colleges across the United States have seen a significant increase in total bandwidth between 2006 and 2007, according to a recent survey. Read More »
In its third year of existence, Pennsylvania's Classrooms for the Future program has succeeded in increasing the learning capabilities of hundreds of school districts. Read More »
