TechLife Columbus: Free Connect Ohio Webinar: Broadband Stimulus - Round Two

Free Connect Ohio Webinar: Broadband Stimulus - Round Two
Broadband Stimulus - Round Two - Notice of Funds Availability overview and analysis...

Commission lends support to Internet effort - SalemNews.net | News, Sports, Jobs, Ohio, Community Information - The Salem News

LISBON - Columbiana County commissioners are increasing efforts to ensure the county is among those seeking federal stimulus money for the expansion of high-speed Internet service. Commissioners this week adopted a resolution in support of the efforts of Broadband for America, which describes itself is as a coalition of telecom companies, Internet providers and consumer advocacy groups pushing for the expansion of high-speed Internet, or broadband, service.

Commissioners are working closely with Connect Ohio, a nonprofit group hired by the state to work with each county and local Internet providers to develop a plan to expand broadband access across the state. Connect Ohio unsuccessfully sought federal stimulus money for Ohio last year and intends to apply for some of the $7.2 billion in stimulus money being made available in 2010 for expansion of broadband...

County commissioners seek grant for high-speed Internet service - ReviewOnline.com | News, sports, jobs - The Review - East Liverpool

LISBON - Columbiana County commissioners are increasing efforts to ensure the county is among those seeking federal stimulus money for the expansion of high-speed Internet service. Commissioners this week adopted a resolution in support of the efforts of Broadband for America, which describes itself as a coalition of telecom companies, Internet providers and consumer advocacy groups pushing for the expansion of high-speed Internet, or broadband, service.

Commissioners are working closely with Connect Ohio, a nonprofit group hired by the state to work with each county and local Internet providers to develop a plan to expand broadband access across the state. Connect Ohio unsuccessfully sought federal stimulus money for Ohio last year and intends to apply for some of the $7.2 billion in stimulus money being made available in 2010 for expansion of broadband...

Connect Ohio survey

CPL is partnering with Connect Ohio to help make more computers available to library patrons. To do so we need help gathering information from Ohioans who access the Internet at their local library.

Please take a few minutes to complete this short online survey. You also have the chance to win a Wi-Fi enabled netbook computer!...

States use ESRI's BroadbandStat application for broadband initiatives

Redlands, California—Ten U.S. states and one U.S. territory will soon launch comprehensive broadband mapping and planning initiatives based on ESRI's geographic information system (GIS) technology. They will use BroadbandStat, an application developed by ESRI and Connected Nation, to organize and display broadband service and related data on the Internet.

The BroadbandStat application hosts interactive Web maps that show broadband coverage across U.S. states and incorporates other relevant data. It includes tools that use service provider and demographics data to identify unserved and underserved broadband areas with optimum potential for new broadband infrastructure development. Its Web capabilities enable a shared picture of broadband data and support transparency by giving the public access to the information...

Ohio govenor backs Obama's economic outlook - The BG News

ELYRIA, Ohio -- Gov. Ted Strickland continues to be concerned about the future of Ohio's economy.

Yet Strickland, D-Ohio, said he is fully confident President Barack Obama can defeat the recession after listening to the commander-in-chief speak about economics and job opportunities for the state during a town-hall meeting Friday at Lorain County Community College...

Office of the Governor | Rural Ohio

Connect Ohio: Just as building roads linked Ohio's communities to the national economy a century ago, Governor Strickland believes that connecting every region of Ohio to high-speed Internet will link our communities to the global economy.

To close the digital divide, he established Connect Ohio, a public-private partnership that works with technology-minded businesses, government entities and universities to accelerate access to, and literacy of, technology across the state and help achieve the goal of ensuring every region of Ohio has Internet connectivity...

Space still fighting to RENEW 18th District; kicks off campaign | zanesvilletimesrecorder.com | Zanesville Times Recorder

ZANESVILLE -- U.S. Rep. Zack Space is still fighting to bring jobs and growth back to southeastern Ohio.

He kicked off his Fighting to RENEW Ohio campaign Monday morning at the Ohio University Zanesville/Zane State Campus Center, a continuation of the original RENEW Ohio-18 development blueprint laid out between February and October 2008.

On the broadband front, Space said Connect Ohio has made strides in mapping broadband coverage in advance of applying for grant funding to fill in underserved areas...

Co-op moves ahead on high-speed Internet in Morrow, Delaware counties | The Columbus Dispatch

An electric cooperative's plan to expand high-speed Internet in Morrow and Delaware counties is aiming higher than providing only faster Web surfing.

The broader goal is to bring new businesses and jobs to rural communities. Consolidated Electric Cooperative, based in Mount Gilead, won $2.4 million in federal stimulus dollars that will go toward increasing broadband access and building a fiber-optic network that eventually will connect Mansfield and Columbus.

An estimated 205,000 households across Ohio do not have access to high-speed Internet, said Dave Sweet, spokesman for Connect Ohio...

Search Savvy: Take a Short Online Survey; You Could Win a Netbook

Connect Ohio wants to know how you use the Internet at your public library.

In order to have a clear understanding of how Ohio's public library patrons use the Internet, we welcome you to participate in a brief (five minute) online survey. The survey is designed to gauge how Ohioans are using the Internet and what prevents them from connecting at home...

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Connect Ohio is a public-private, not-for-profit partnership that works with technology-minded businesses, government entities, universities and other organizations to accelerate the use of technology in the state to help close the digital divide.

For several months now, Connect Ohio has been working closely with the Ohio Library Council, the Ohio Public Library Information Network and the State Library of Ohio in the development of a statewide application for federal broadband stimulus funding from the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration...

Logan Daily News - Logan, OH > Archives > News > Ohio awarded grant for broadband mapping

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In 2011, anyone looking to relocate can search the availability of broadband Internet service (and its speed) for a chosen city anywhere in the United States.

Ohio is among 15 recipients of grants to fund broadband mapping and planning activities for this project...

SWON Libraries: Connect Ohio presentation

Click on the play button below to listen to the Public Computing Center Project presentation. You may also download the audio as an MP3 using the links at the bottom of this page...

Library foundation donates funds - The-Press-News.com

The Stark County District Library Foundation Board, at its December meeting, voted to donate $6,000 to the Stark County District Library to fund two separate projects. Half of the money will support the library's Young Mom's Club, a literacy project for young mothers in their teens and early 20s, and will pay for books and literacy activities for the group.

The other half of the donation will support the Madge Youtz Branch's "Borrow a Laptop" program. Begun in 2008 with 10 small laptops, the program was initially funded by Connect Ohio and Connected Nation. This program supplies small, sturdy laptop computers for use in the branch and for loan. Some of the computers now require replacement and the Foundation will support continuation of the program...

Connect Ohio research spurs broadband availability

From the January/February 2010 issue of the Ohio Township News. www.ohiotownships.org.

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Billions of dollars allocated to increase availability of Internet access

The Obama administration is pumping billions of dollars into expanding the availability of high-speed Internet access to areas that lack it, in an effort to extend the broadband lifeline that is essential to attracting private investment and creating jobs in the 21st century.

Connect Ohio, a nonprofit organization that Ohio created in 2008 to determine where broadband exists and where it is needed in the state, already displays a broadband-availability map on its Web site at www.connectohio.org. The federal funding will allow the organization to collect more detailed data from current broadband providers statewide to update the map, said Tom Fritz, executive director of Connect Ohio, based in Columbus...

USDA funds will help build broadband infrastructure in rural Ohio - John Deere MachineFinder

People who use farm equipment in rural Ohio may have a hard time getting the kind of internet connectivity they desire, though a recent effort may help that.

According to Governor Ted Strickland's office, the Consolidated Electric Cooperative received $2.4 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in order to construct a 166-mile broadband network in the northern part of the state. In order to secure the funds, a public-private partnership known as Connect Ohio compiled data and acted as a guide through the process...

Feds to collect data to aid Internet upgrade across Ohio

Forty percent of Ohio’s land area lacks access to broadband service, preventing its residents from getting access to telephone, cable, long-distance learning and other offerings dependent on high-speed Internet service.

That amounts to about 4 million people who don’t have broadband access at home, said Tom Fritz, executive director of Connect Ohio, a nonprofit public-private partnership the state established in 2008 to determine where broadband infrastructure is still needed...

Billions of dollars allocated to increase availability of Internet access

The Obama administration is pumping billions of dollars into expanding the availability of high-speed Internet access to areas that lack it, in an effort to extend the broadband lifeline that is essential to attracting private investment and creating jobs in the 21st century.

Connect Ohio, a nonprofit organization that Ohio created in 2008 to determine where broadband exists and where it is needed in the state, already displays a broadband-availability map on its Web site at www.connectohio.org. The federal funding will allow the organization to collect more detailed data from current broadband providers statewide to update the map, said Tom Fritz, executive director of Connect Ohio, based in Columbus...