Connect Ohio’s Technical Association Quarterly Meeting Discusses Every Citizen Online and Last-Mile Projects
Connect Ohio’s Technical Association Quarterly Meeting Discusses Every Citizen Online and Last-Mile Projects
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 14, 2010
Contact: Amanda Murphy
614-220-0190 or amurphy@connectohio.org
Statewide programs will provide more than 200,000 Ohioans
with free computer training, continue improving broadband access
COLUMBUS – On Friday, December 10 at the Vern Riffe Center in Columbus, Connect Ohio hosted the 2010 fourth quarter Technology Association Meeting with 62 stakeholders, broadband providers, and library and community representatives. Representatives from the offices of Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, Senator Joe Schiavoni, Senator John Carey and State Representative John Patrick Carney were also in attendance.
The meeting detailed the progress of the Every Citizen Online program, a two-year effort to increase sustainable broadband adoption for more than 200,000 state residents by providing free computer training sessions at public libraries and community colleges throughout Ohio. The program launches later this month with a television, radio, and print awareness campaign to be distributed statewide.
"This project will prepare state residents without high-speed Internet for a technologically-driven society," Connect Ohio Executive Director Tom Fritz said.
New broadband coverage maps were also introduced, featuring additional information about the availability of coverage as well as the highest speed available to consumers. The maps can be found at http://www.connectohio.org/mapping_and_research/speed_maps.php.
Connect Ohio’s Technical Outreach Manager Bart Winegar gave attendees an overview of current last-mile assistance projects in Ohio. The last-mile projects offer assistance to Ohio communities that lack access to broadband by identifying, researching, and mapping unserved areas and interacting with local planning teams to determine the best practices to increase broadband capacity in that area.
Fritz also presented Governor Strickland and University of Rio Grande’s Kingsley Meyer with Broadband Hero awards for their hard work and dedication toward expanding affordable broadband and high-speed Internet access to all Ohioans.
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Connect Ohio, a division of Connected Nation, is a nonprofit, technology-neutral public-private partnership that works with telecommunications providers, business and community leaders, information technology companies, researchers, public agencies, libraries, and universities in an effort to help extend affordable high-speed Internet service to every Ohio household. For more information about what Connect Ohio is doing to accelerate technology in Ohio's communities, visit http://www.connectohio.org.
Related Links: Connect Ohio on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ConnectOhio
Connect Ohio on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ConnectOH
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 14, 2010
Contact: Amanda Murphy
614-220-0190 or amurphy@connectohio.org
Statewide programs will provide more than 200,000 Ohioans
with free computer training, continue improving broadband access
COLUMBUS – On Friday, December 10 at the Vern Riffe Center in Columbus, Connect Ohio hosted the 2010 fourth quarter Technology Association Meeting with 62 stakeholders, broadband providers, and library and community representatives. Representatives from the offices of Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, Senator Joe Schiavoni, Senator John Carey and State Representative John Patrick Carney were also in attendance.
The meeting detailed the progress of the Every Citizen Online program, a two-year effort to increase sustainable broadband adoption for more than 200,000 state residents by providing free computer training sessions at public libraries and community colleges throughout Ohio. The program launches later this month with a television, radio, and print awareness campaign to be distributed statewide.
"This project will prepare state residents without high-speed Internet for a technologically-driven society," Connect Ohio Executive Director Tom Fritz said.
New broadband coverage maps were also introduced, featuring additional information about the availability of coverage as well as the highest speed available to consumers. The maps can be found at http://www.connectohio.org/mapping_and_research/speed_maps.php.
Connect Ohio’s Technical Outreach Manager Bart Winegar gave attendees an overview of current last-mile assistance projects in Ohio. The last-mile projects offer assistance to Ohio communities that lack access to broadband by identifying, researching, and mapping unserved areas and interacting with local planning teams to determine the best practices to increase broadband capacity in that area.
Fritz also presented Governor Strickland and University of Rio Grande’s Kingsley Meyer with Broadband Hero awards for their hard work and dedication toward expanding affordable broadband and high-speed Internet access to all Ohioans.
# # #
Connect Ohio, a division of Connected Nation, is a nonprofit, technology-neutral public-private partnership that works with telecommunications providers, business and community leaders, information technology companies, researchers, public agencies, libraries, and universities in an effort to help extend affordable high-speed Internet service to every Ohio household. For more information about what Connect Ohio is doing to accelerate technology in Ohio's communities, visit http://www.connectohio.org.
Related Links: Connect Ohio on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ConnectOhio
Connect Ohio on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ConnectOH
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