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The fund will award up to $500,000 to innovative proposals that use broadband to stimulate job creation, education, healthcare, agriculture, public safety, energy conservation, or eGovernment.
We’re going on a tour of eight Illinois cities to promote this opportunity. RSVP to an event near you!
See all program information, including the full request for proposals, application, videos, events, articles and FAQs. Applications are due September 11, 2012!
The race for ultra high-speed Internet throughout the state has begun. Governor Pat Quinn recently announced details of the Illinois Gigabit Communities Challenge, a competition that will award up to $6 million in capital funding to the most promising high-speed Internet deployment projects.
“Through this challenge, we want our neighborhoods to become Gigabit communities with Internet connections more than 100 times faster than today,” said Quinn in his Feb. 1 State of the State address. “Our goal is to build smart communities that will foster the job engines of the future."