by Nicole Umayam | Dec 18, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
So far, we’ve facilitated three of the six broadband toolkit site assessments in Arizona as part of Internet2’s “Toward Gigabit Libraries” pilot program (I wrote about the pilot program in an earlier post). The first two were facilitated by James Werle of Internet2...
by Sandy Tharp-Thee | Dec 14, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Because someone cared City of Boley was first brought to my attention back in February of this year. The City of Boley had not had access to a library and computers for over a decade. Today thanks to a donor they have a working media center with four desktops....
by Jeff Garcie | Dec 6, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
My education in E-rate continued as I spoke to professionals who had worked for the FCC and state libraries where their job was to help communities work through the E-rate system. It amazed me that someone could spend an entire career working to sort through the...
by Jeff Garcie | Dec 5, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
When I began working with NDIA, I knew that E-rate was the government subsidy that was used to help fund schools and libraries via the Universal Fund. That was basically the extent of what I knew about the program. As we looked at connectivity in Kodiak, I was...
by Nicole Umayam | Dec 5, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
The State Library of Arizona was invited to participate in Internet2’s pilot program “Toward Gigabit Libraries,” funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services. The program, which is targeted to rural and tribal libraries with limited IT support available to...