Archive for: August 2009
August 28, 2009
WASHINGTON, August 27, 2009 – … NTIA and RUS … announced today that they received almost 2,200 applications requesting nearly $28 billion in funding for proposed broadband projects reaching all 50 U.S. states and territories and the District of Columbia. This is the first round of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding … with $4 billion available through loans, grants, and loan/grant combinations.
The NTIA/RUS news release here
A good description of the broadband stimulus program and current status from eSchool News:
August 27, 2009
Aug. 27, 2009 – Today
August 20, 2009
A message to all members of my.OneWebDay
Greetings,
Today I have some great news that comes with a request for some volunteer power.
Google and the Public Interest Registry (PIR.org) have committed to sponsorships that will allow us to produce & distribute OWD banners, t-shirts, and buttons within the US*!
August 14, 2009
Our second organizing meeting on July 13 was a success, 30 attended and participated in the very productive discussions. Those discussions are continuing at www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2117168&. Join us there. 
Meeting was held at the Verizon DC Office, 1300 I Street NW, Suite 400W, DC 20005. To request copies of the photos, email chapter@isoc-dc.org.
 Government 2.0 Summit in DC Sept 9-10 | http://gov2summit.com
This will be an important conference, bringing together many experts across government, industry, and nonprofit spectrums.
Netroots Nation, 4 days in Pittsburgh, August 13-16, taking use of the Internet for social discourse to new levels, see: http://www.netrootsnation.org.
RightOnLine, 2 days in Pittsburgh, August 14-15, Take Control of the Internet, see: http://netrootsnation.org.
Streaming Netroots Nation:…
August 7, 2009
Aug 6, 2009 | FCC Headquarters, DC |FCC NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN WORKSHOP | OPEN GOVERNMENT & CIVIC ENGAGEMENT:
Recorded webcast: http://www.fcc.gov/realaudio/mt080609.ram
Related documents: http://www.broadband.gov/ws_egov.html#reldocs
Agenda:
9:30 am Opening by FCC Chairman Genachowski
9:35 am Workshop Introduction, Eugene Huang, Moderator
9:40 am Panel …
August 5, 2009
Wired Epicenter | By Ryan Singel |August 4, 2009: PALO ALTO, California — Call it the summer of broadband.
Early this week the new FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, a former law school …
Federal IT Dashboard – CIO evaluations are in | Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO | See: http://it.usaspending.gov
We just reached an important milestone with respect to the Agency CIOs completing their reviews of the federal government’s major IT investments. On …
August 3, 2009
Last week, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meet in Stockholm. Most of the sessions were audiocast, but many of them are very, very technical and narrowly-focused.
Agenda details for the full one-week IETF meeting at https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/75/agenda.html
Thursday night, July 30, the IETF had a general-interest plenary session on Network Neutrality. The debate outline:
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