Contents
Summer 2004
Technology at Work in Communities
E-business project benefits West
Point area
E-business center, video conferencing center serve area businesses
Ainsworth benefits from national service center location
Since mid-90's, Ainsworth has included information technology
as part of broader economic development efforts
Homer hosts technology fair
Work-at-home e-business, desktop alert system, and public
safety communications project featured
Keep focused on economic development
Hamilton County Technology Committee offers advice
Minnesota project promotes broadband
Rural communities focus on training and education to stimulate
demand for broadband
Rural areas lag behind urban areas
in Internet use
More rural residents rely on libraries and other locations
to access the Internet
Programs help businesses use e-commerce
58% of small businesses say the Internet has helped their
business grow
Telecommunications Policy
Telecommunications Policy Primer:
Understanding the Nebraska Universal Service Fund
Program benefits high cost areas, low income individuals,
and telehealth
Telecommunications Policy Update
U.S. Supreme Court rules states can ban cities from offering
telecommunications services
Funding
Nebraska
Internet Enhancement Fund grant round opens
Grant program provides assistance to counties, municipalities
to deliver advanced telecommunications services
Looking
for grants in all the right places
• EDA
grants support entrepreneurial economic development
• PeopleSoft
supports community technology programs
• Community Technology Center applications
due June1
• Grant
offers wireless networking services to community without broadband
Technology
Non-Line-of-Sight broadband wireless
service comes to Nebraska
Kearney area and South Sioux City have access to new technology
Bit
by bit:
Understanding technology
one term at a time: Presence technology (Part 3): Who's been sitting in my
chair?
Packets: News Shorts
• Event
notification and rule tracking available at www.Nebraska.gov
• Reports rank states on science and
technology indicators
• Surveys document growth in wireless,
broadband connectivity
• Consumers keep phone numbers, switch
carriers
• "Smart" Work Zones on
I-80 in the Omaha Area
• NU experts will answer ag economic
questions online
• Sandhill cranes captured on Crane
Cam
• Loup
City technology center opens
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