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Easley Trumpets Online Courses: College Study Free For High-Schoolers

admin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:03:27 +0000

Easley Trumpets Online Courses: College Study Free For High-Schoolers
TMC.net
August 7, 2008

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Greene County, NC – Wireless and Way Ahead

admin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:14:33 +0000

Greene County, NC - Wireless and Way Ahead
Daily Yonder
July 14, 2008

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North Carolina Stats

admin — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:26:39 +0000

Total economic impact of $264,354,171 if broadband deployment were increased at a reasonable level. (Connected Nation, The Economic Impact of Stimulating Broadband Nationally)

Net job growth of 5,755 jobs from increase in broadband deployment. (Connected Nation, The Economic Impact of Stimulating Broadband Nationally)

E-NC Authority was created by the North Carolina General Assembly to link all North Carolinians to the Internet and to provide high-speed broadband Internet access at competitive prices. (Alliance for Public Technology and Communications Workers of America, State Broadband Initiatives)

The North Carolina Research and Education Network provides access to national research networks, advanced video and distance learning services, and the Internet. (Alliance for Public Technology and Communications Workers of America, State Broadband Initiatives)

Bringing Educational Opportunities to Rural and Urban America

NextGenWeb — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:44:21 +0000

NextGenWeb recently attended the Alliance for Public Technology luncheon “bringing educational opportunities to rural and urban America”. The event included a live demonstration of PEBBLES. PEBBLES is an innovative system that combines video conferencing technologies with simple robotics technology to allow medically fragile students confined in the hospital or at home to attend his/her school. Stephen Wooten, the second place winner of APT’s “how broadband changed my life contest” spoke about the educational opportunities that were opened to him through broadband technology. The event also featured findings from a forthcoming report examining the impacts of IT on education. Robert Atkinson president of the information technology and innovation foundation discussed how IT and broadband can improve education.

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Andrew Summa, PhD, Project Director, The PEBBLES Project

From the Tobacco Road to the Information Super Highway

admin — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:54:30 +0000

NextGenWeb recently covered the New Democratic Network event on its Globalization Initiative. The event was held in the U.S. Capitol and was headlined by Rep. John Larson (D-CT). Another speaker at the NDN forum was Misty Chase, Project Director for Beyond Tobacco in Greene County, NC. Misty shared the success story of how broadband and access to high speed Internet has changed the quality of life in a county that was once dominated only by agriculture.

Net Neutrality A Bad Deal

NextGenWeb — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:39:33 +0000

Charlotte Observer
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Expanded Broadband Access A Boon

NextGenWeb — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:42:38 +0000

Citizen Times (Ashville, NC)
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Web 2.0 Deserves Congress’ Support

NextGenWeb — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:02:28 +0000

High Point Exercise
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