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The American Cable Association announced broad but qualified support for Federal Communications Commission policies and initiatives designed to promote broadband deployment in the most costly and geographically remote regions of the country

We are in need of laptops, computers, monitors, cables, desks, chairs - pretty much anything that one would use for a "study area".

Karla Ballard, One Economy’s Chief of Strategy Development for Media and National Partnerships, has been appointed to the FCC’s Federal Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age.

In this technology-driven job market, efforts are being made to ensure that underserved populations have digital Inclusion. Already making strides, Neighbors Empowering Youth (NEY) commemorates over ten years of youth development through technology.

The Philippine Internet Users Society (PIUS) enjoins all Internet users and all computer-based businesses and establishments to support the Sept 22 “ONE WEB DAY,” the global celebration of the internet.

Community Wi-Fi broadband networks are the solution to the government’s Broadband For All scheme, according to Top 10 Broadband

NextStep Recycling has been selected as the only reuse and recycling nonprofit in central Oregon that is participating in the free statewide electronics recycling legislation.

Free and self-certifiable IT literacy certification now available to all. ALISON ABC IT is revolutionizing basic IT-skills learning. The new certification is comprehensive, free, self-certifiable, and always current.

Intelliwave is an Athens Ohio based Internet Service Provider who has expanded its network for wireless broadband service to Meigs County. Intelliwave is helping to bridge the Digital Divide in Rural Ohio.

WiHood’s “virtual laptop” service can now earn parents and organizations money while protecting children online and bridging the digital divide.

Major plans for 2008 in store for largest community of digital divide practitioners