[1st-mile-nm] BTOP Application Guide announced

[Harris, Brian, WEU NMAGO]

For Immediate Release 

July 22, 2009 

 

An Overview of the State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program 

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the New America Foundation's Open Technology
Initiative released an application guide for the National
Telecommunication and Information Association's (NTIA) State Broadband
Data and Development grant program.

The Open Technology Initiative's application guide simplifies the NTIA's
July 1st Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) and makes the grant
program more accessible to states and organizations interested in
applying for stimulus funding. As an introduction to the NOFA, this
report breaks down the application process, lists the required documents
and key information, and explains the technical data that awardees of
the grant will be responsible for collecting.

"We have received an incredibly positive response to our four
application guides for other NTIA and RUS grant opportunities and we
wanted to ensure that easy-to-digest information is available for this
grant program as well," explained James Losey, program associate for the
Open Technology Initiative. "There is a growing consensus about the need
for substantial broadband data to be made publicly accessible and a
national broadband map is an important first step towards this goal."

The Introduction to the State Broadband Data and Development Grant
Program is available for download from the Open Technology Initiative
website at 
http://www.newamerica.net/programs/oti
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page:

http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/introduction_state_broadba
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Application guides for other NTIA and RUS grant opportunities, as well
strategic guidance regarding BTOP infrastructure funding, are available
at the following links:

Summary, Concerns, and Strategic Guidance Regarding Notice of Funds
Availability for BTOP
http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/summary_concerns_and_strategic
_guidance_regarding_notice_funds_availability_btop
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Broadband Infrastructure: BIP Application Guide
http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/broadband_infrastructure_a
pplication_guide_bip
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B1PMPz0w5f4SBywHhAXHRwNwwsohM4SuIRkGyDdm_JGVkOJH-1B1R1PG6GY9GZBep1-P3NxW
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Broadband Infrastructure: BTOP Application Guide
http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/broadband_infrastructure_b
top_application_guide
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Public Computer Center Application Guide
http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/public_computer_centers_pr
ogram_application_guide
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Sustainable Broadband Adoption Application Guide
http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/sustainable_broadband_adop
tion_application_guide
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About the New America Foundation 
The New America Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy
institute that invests in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next
generation of challenges facing the United States.

 

 

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