Georgia Broadband Excellence
Access, Education, HealthCare, Public Safety
"Collaboration and data driven decision making are the key ingredients to Georgia's broadband success."
Rich Calhoun, Program Director, Georgia Technology Authority
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Wireless Communities Georgia Information
PORTAL TO APPLY FOR ARRA BROADBAND GRANTS: Broadbandusa.gov
PORTAL TO ORGANIZATION ADMINISTERING THE BTOP GRANTS: NTIA.gov
PORTAL TO CENTRAL ARRA WEBSITE: Recovery.gov
PORTAL TO ORGANIZATION ADMINISTERING THE BIP GRANTS: USDA.gov
PORTAL TO BROADBAND MATCH TOOL: broadbandmatchtool
PORTAL TO STATE OF GEORGIA MAIN Website: Georgia.gov
GTA INFORMATION BRIEF
‘Internet Essentials’ to Provide Families with Children Eligible for a Free Lunch Under the National School Lunch Program with Low-Cost Internet Service, Affordable Computers and Digital Literacy Training
ATLANTA, GA - August 8, 2011
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal, U.S. Congressman John Lewis, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and David L. Cohen, Comcast Corporation Executive Vice President, today launched Internet Essentials, an ambitious and comprehensive broadband adoption program. Available to 317,000 low-income families with children eligible to receive a free lunch under the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) in 28 metro-Atlanta area school districts, the goal of Internet Essentials is to help close the digital divide and ensure more Americans benefit from all the Internet has to offer. The Internet Essentials program addresses three primary barriers to broadband adoption that research has identified – 1) a lack of understanding of how the Internet is relevant and useful; 2) the cost of a home computer, and 3) the cost of Internet service...
Comcast website: http://www.internetessentials.com/how/index.html
8 Surprising Findings About the Broadband Economy (Opinion)
By Craig Settles
Plenty of articles have been written that assert one of the main benefits that broadband delivers is the ability to impact economic development. However, are we getting the complete picture of what it takes to achieve this goal?
I don’t think we are. The absence of key details impedes communities’ attempts to generate economic outcomes.
Economists, the FCC, a parade of private-sector companies and industry trade associations are frequently cited — along with all sorts of numbers that claim to prove the economic value of broadband.
But one source it seems you don’t see enough is economic development professionals, the people who work day in and day out to save, maintain and grow local economies...
Georgia and the nation's other states and territories have
made their broadband mapping data sets available
at:www.broadbandmap.gov/data-download
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