Community Broadband Action Network is hosting its 2024 Fall Forum on Oct. 10 in West Des Moines. Christopher Ali, author of “Farm Fresh Broadband,” will share stories and insights for the future of a digitally connected rural America and USDA Rural Development Field Director Theresa Greenfield will speak on the USDA’s role in broadband development and rural […]
Community Broadband Action Network (CBAN) is hosting a webinar about the upcoming round of grants from the federal Digital Equity Act following the recent announcement that digital equity plans for all 50 states have been approved. The grants will first be available through states and later directly through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Iowa is eligible […]
The Community Broadband Action Network announced Wednesday that it has received a grant of more than $380,000 through the National Digital Inclusion Alliance, which will establish a Digital Navigator Corps program in Iowa. The grant is part of a $10 million investment from Google, which is establishing a national Digital Navigator Corps. The national initiative includes the […]
Iowans launch network to connect providers, communities seeking better service Recall the last year your home had dial-up internet service, the once great, shining beacon of communication in America. As you nudged your modem awake, a sound that an Economist writer once described in 2007 as “the distorted screams of two modems introducing themselves” disturbed […]