News tagged with Partnership for a Connected Illinois

Frontier Communications Helps Propel Carbondale into Gigabit City Status

Andrea Fast, Dec 11, 2014

Frontier announces Carbondale as a Gigabit City, High speed internet over 50 times faster

Center for Digital Inclusion is Established at the University of Illinois

Center for Digital Inclusion, Nov 21, 2012

The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) is proud to announce the establishment of the Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The CDI strives to foster inclusive and sustainable societies through research, teaching, and public engagement about information and communication technologies (ICT).

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.

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.

UC2B breaks ground in big broadband project

Shannon McFarland, Sep 13, 2011

The Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband project, a collaborative effort to bring high-speed broadband to the community in the next year and a half, held a ground-breaking ceremony last week marking the beginning of the $29.4 million project.

Facing Tempests in Today's World: Preparing for Disasters Large and Small

Layton Olson, Aug 22, 2011

In creating "safe and healthy" communities, Federal, state and local public safety and health communities and service organizations get stronger, more intelligent and accurate in communicating with everyone as they build social networks in every street and road.

Measuring Broadband Use and Adoption is the Next Frontier in Internet Data Collection

On Broadband, Aug 9, 2011

By Drew Clark

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, August 9, 2011 - It's very easy to take broadband for granted. People want to go online to look up answers on Wikipedia, to watch movies on Netflix, to hang out on Facebook, or to Skype cousins across the globe -- or across town.

None of this can be done without broadband. Higher and higher speeds of internet connectivity are necessary to satisfy everyone's demand to do all of these things at once.

That's where the Partnership for a Connected Illinois comes into play.

ETeams Bring Leaders Together to Improve Jobs, Education, Healthcare and More

Jun 27, 2011

Wednesday Webinar Series Continues June 29 at 2 p.m.

Building the Gigabit State in Southern Illinois

On Broadband, Jun 2, 2011

By Drew Clark

CARBONDALE, Illinois, June 2, 2011 – Boiled down to its bare essentials, a major research university like Southern Illinois University here needs three things to prosper: good students, great faculty, and world-class internet bandwidth.

The only major research university in the southern half of Illinois, SIU has the first two out of three. But according to John Koropchak, a professor of chemistry and Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Dean at the university, the availability of bandwidth for SIU maxes out at 380 Megabits per second (Mbps). 

Guidelines by the National Science Foundation call for bandwidth availability to be 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) to 2.5 Gbps. That’s up to seven times the bandwidth currently available.