At yesterday's CTN Connect event, leaders in the field of community technology met to discuss SF Commons, San Francisco's new public access television station.
Welcome to the new and improved CTN website! This site is currently in beta and we encourage you to share your feedback with us by using the Feedback tab on the right side of the screen.
We are really excited about the changes, here are a couple highlights:
It seems sometimes like the best web sites for technology trainers change location every hour. I have trouble locating sites that are persistent and reliable with regular updates and new content. This is a shame, because technology trainers in schools, libraries and community technology centers don’t have time to recreate the wheel every time they teach Introduction to Microsoft Word, when hundreds of colleagues around the world have already written that lesson plan.
The hot news in broadband policy circles so far this year has undoubtedly been the March release of the FCC's broadband plan, which Congress and President Obama required of the FCC when they passed the 2009 stimulus bill.
The digital divide is never quiet. Broadband policy has been a topic of frequent discussion since the Obama administration made it a high priority. The stimulus package earlier this year included substantial funding for building out the broadband infrastructure in underserved areas.
