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Illinois Awarded $520,000 USDA Grant for Rural Health Needs: Nov 26, 2011; Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack awarded Illinois with $520,000 to assist in bringing innovative health measures to medically underserved residents. The project will serve the southernmost part of Illinois.
Fiber optic project makes headway in Stephenson County: Nov 21, 2011; $69M initiative will provide high-speed Internet access to under-served areas
Broadband saves consumers on utilities: Nov 17, 2011; Smart Grid is increasingly needing broadband, and the Recovery Act is helping fund 1000 censors across the transmition grid to help prevent blackouts, Nick Sinai, the Senior Advisor to White House’s Chief Technology Officer, said.
Four Illinois telephone utilities to receive over $71 million in U.S. Ag Department funds to build, expand and improve broadband in rural areas.: Nov 16, 2011; Telephone utilities in 18 states will receive nearly $500 million in U.S. Agriculture Department funds to build, expand and improve broadband in rural areas.
FCC and private companies aim to shrink digital divide: Nov 11, 2011; The federal government announced a major effort for its initiative to get low-income students and families low-cost computers and high-speed Internet this week.
PCI's Rudibaugh awarded Instructor of the Year: Nov 1, 2011; Mike Rudibaugh, the director of mapping and analysis at Partnership for a Connected Illinois, was awared Instructor of the Year by the the Illinois Community College Faculty Association.
Libraries as building blocks for learning and careers in local areas across illinois – and the nation: Layton Olson, Oct 31, 2011; Education is FCC National Broadband Plan National Need #3. Libraries are local community anchor institutions focused directly on learning, working alongside schools, museums, cultural and social service centers, business centers, and congregations. Below are Local (A), State (B), and National (C)) resources on how to best use and demonstrate through graphics, photographs and stories the daily benefits to youth, adults, seniors, businesses, and public agencies of exploiting every community library’s human and technology resources.
Quinn, Preckwinkle announce $16 million broadband infrastructure investment in south Chicago suburbs: Oct 31, 2011; Gov. Quinn and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced on Friday a state and county committment to invest $16 million in south Chicago suburbs high-speed Internet connections.
Study indicates broadband does not lower tax collections: Oct 31, 2011; Increased broadband does not lead to lower tax collections, indicates a study in Oklahoma about the relationship between broadband adoption and local retail sales tax collections.
Comcast offers low-cost Internet to low-income Illinois families: Judy Masterson, Oct 26, 2011; In an effort to bridge the digital divide, Comcast is offering discounted Internet service, affordable computers and training on how to use them to qualifying low-income families in school districts across the country.
Mayor Emanuel’s new tech execs talk about taking Chicago into the cyber future: Lou Carlozo, Oct 26, 2011; Though it’s a long way from the Silicon Valley, Chicago has plenty to brag about in terms of its technology executives on the government level. And at the Executives’ Club of Chicago Technology Conference, held Wednesday at the Renaissance Blackstone Hotel, three of the city’s top tech officers stepped out from behind their mainframes, spreadsheets and strategy sessions to explain how they hope to bring city services and technology into the 21st Century.
CenturyLink offers Internet classes for low-income: The Register-Mail, Oct 23, 2011; CenturyLink Inc. is introducing CenturyLink Internet Basics to improve and promote broadband adoption and use by low-income consumers in Galesburg.
Bringing Broadband to All Americans: Benton Foundation, Oct 18, 2011; Although new devices/phones, the economy, and jobs seem to dominate the headlines, the Federal Communications Commission remains focused on a key priority of the Obama Administration: making sure broadband Internet is available and adopted by all Americans. Developments in the last week point toward bigger policy decisions expected by the end of October.
Experts, academics strategize on building the road to broadband: Lou Carlozo, Oct 12, 2011; Since the dawning days of the horseless carriage, it's been conventional wisdom in state governments that road projects put people to work. That theme resonated in 21st Century fashion at Wednesday's Central Illinois Broadband Summit, held at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and hosted by Broadband Illinois.
Howard, PCI’s Benton honored for ushering in a new era of Illinois Broadband supremacy: Lou Carlozo, Oct 12, 2011; In an age when seniors might get looks of pity from younger tech heads hanging by the Apple Store, you might not realize that one woman who will turn 70 next year has been a prime mover in getting Illinois wired for the 21^st Century. Rep. Constance A. Howard (D-34th) of the Illinois General Assembly was honored Wednesday evening for her long record of accomplishment and efforts to close the digital divide and beef up the state’s broadband network. Howard led a panel of five state and federal political leaders as part of the Central Illinois Broadband Summit, held at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and hosted by Broadband Illinois.
PCI Submits Data to Update National Broadband Map: Clayton Black, Sep 30, 2011; The Partnership for a Connected Illinois (PCI) today made its fourth semi-annual submission of broadband coverage and community anchor institution data to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
Avoiding Costs, Building Assets: “One Trench” and “One Tower” Investments Improve Government Performance: Layton Olson, Sep 29, 2011; Improving government performance is the FCC National Broadband Plan, National Need #5. It is closely linked with National Need #7, Public Safety (topic of the August 22 blog), and Increasing Civic Engagement, National Need #6. By utilizing common infrastructure, governments can facilitate faster, better, and less expensive Internet for their public works and community institutions, and private sector providers can do the same for residents and businesses. Such solutions include “one trench” and “one tower” investments for faster payback through lower costs.
FCC says broadband could create 2.4 million jobs: Sep 27, 2011; Increasing broadband penetration by seven percent could create an additional 2.4 million new jobs, the FCC says.
New study quantifies the impact of broadband speed on GDP: Sep 27, 2011; A new report released shows that increasing broadband speeds and broadband penetration for an economy increases the GDP.
Push to bring faster broadband to college towns; PCI chairman Charles Benton attends: Sep 27, 2011; Partnership for a Connected Illinois chairman Charles Benton attended a meeting with Google and more than 50 other companies in Chicago on Monday, aimed finding funding for faster broadband for 37 college campuses including University of Chicago and Univeristy of Illinois.
National Funding Opportunities for Technology to Address Social Issues: Sep 19, 2011; The Verizon Foundation is offering grants to nonprofit organizations throughout the nation that use technology-based approaches to domestic violence prevention, improving education, literacy or healthcare.
US Department of Energy Releases Roadmap for Energy Infrastructure Cybersecurity: US Department of Energy, Sep 15, 2011; The U.S. Department of Energy released the 2011 Roadmap to Achieve Energy Delivery Systems Cybersecurity outlining its goals to enhance the security and reliability of the nation’s energy infrastructure.
FCC Announces Public Testing of First Television White Spaces Database: Sep 14, 2011; Freeing valuable spectrum will open the doors for new industries to develop, create American jobs, and lead to new technologies and services.
Retailer to Sell Home Energy Management Products: CNET News, Sep 14, 2011; Home energy management products can remotely control or schedule home thermostats, lights, or appliances, program a thermostat using a smart phone app or Web page, or measure the power of different appliances.
Public-Safety Broadband Network Could Generate Thousands of New Jobs: National Journal, Sep 13, 2011; President Obama’s jobs bill could move legislation aimed at freeing up more spectrum for wireless broadband technologies and building a national broadband network for public safety.

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