15 States Have Now Gotten Broadband Mapping Money And Connected Nation has yet to be included... Late on Friday, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced seven new state recipients of broadband mapping and improvement funds. As with the last round of funding, the awards were most notable for who wasn't among them: Connected Nation. Criticized by some as essentially a bell-funded lobbying vehicle dressed up as a broadband mapping organization, Connected Nation again missed out on broadband mapping funds in Alabama, Washington, Wyoming, Idaho, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin. Those interested can track the funding by state via this map and grant database.
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  FBGuyyippee ki yayPremium
join:2005-03-19 | pork talk about pork spending. the idea of broadband mapping has potential but this is not being done right.
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kudos:12 | Re: pork said by FBGuy:talk about pork spending. the idea of broadband mapping has potential but this is not being done right. Why not? So far Connected Nation hasn't received any money, so what about it "is not being done right?"
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Cheyenne, WY | Wyoming At least it looks like Wyoming will have a respectable outfit performing our Broadband Mapping. | |
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Seattle, WA | Received is the proper word. Gotten, YUCK, horrible word.
Received is the proper word. | |
| | | | | | | Re: Received is the proper word. Gotten is not proper English, I thought for minute that someone that was ESL (English as a second language) had done the title. It's that bad folks, fix it. | |
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kudos:4 | said by toby:Gotten, YUCK, horrible word. Received is the proper word. »dictionary.reference.com/browse/···src=2446
In British English got is the regular past participle of get, and gotten survives only in a few set phrases, such as ill-gotten gains. In American English gotten, although occasionally criticized, is an alternative standard past participle in most senses, especially in the senses “to receive” or “to acquire”: I have gotten (or got) all that I ever hoped for.
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 chlenEthically ChallengedPremium
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Albany, NY | NY In NY we have Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure doing the mapping, they are very respectable and advise 14 other states including fed agencies like the FBI and DOS. | |
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| MA NTIA has awarded the Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI) over $1.5 million for broadband data collection and mapping activities over a two-year period and $500,000 for broadband planning activities over a five-year period in Massachusetts, bringing the total grant award to approximately $2 million. MBI is the designated entity for the state of Massachusetts.
»www.massbroadband.org/
In July 2009, Governor Patrick announced a partnership between the MBI and the Executive Office of Transportation (EOT) to bring broadband to unserved and underserved communities in western Massachusetts.
Broadband by the same people that brought you the Big Dig... | |
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| Re: MA said by capecoddah:Broadband by the same people that brought you the Big Dig... ROFL! Hopefully this holds up better than ceiling panels!
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| |  15 States have gotten broadband mapping money
Some of the states are indeed very competent at mapping, but that does not imply that those running the program are. Nor does it imply that Congress has a clue about the how or why of broadband mapping. As long as Congress continues to cater to its sugar daddies (the Telcos), nobody will get a complete data set from these providers. Most of the money spent will be devoted to finding workarounds; methods for getting full and accurate data despite the their unwillingness to provide it. This does not seem to be a very good use of the People's money. But in America, in the words of the erstwhile Congressman Ozzie Meyers, "money talks." That's not all he said, and I'm not saying it either--am assuming you can fill in the blanks.
As far as I can tell, the BB mapping program -- and the rest of the $7.2 billion being given away through the BTOP/BIP/RUS programs -- involves people with money and jobs giving money and jobs to people who already have money and jobs. Having excluded almost anyone who knows anything about the country's technology infrastructure or how to conduct social research, they have instead chosen inexperienced people with backgrounds in fields like Law and Public Policy to make the critical decisions about how BB mapping should be implemented - a subject about which they know next to nothing.
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