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At Summit on Broadband Access Knight, FCC Announce Apps for Inclusion Challenge

The FCC and Knight Foundation co-hosted a summit at the Newseum in Washington D.C. Tuesday to highlight solutions to the challenge of providing broadband access for everyone. Speakers at America's Digital Inclusion Summit called for expanded access to broadband. The event also showcased six programs working to close the digital divide in America.

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Knight Foundation will have novelist Chengerai Hove as its guest for the next two years (Yesterday at 7:52 PM)
Zimbabwe novelist Chengerai Hove will be calling Miami home for at least the next two years. As a guest of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Hove will give guest lectures to Miami Dade students, and also interact with the general public by attending a variety of community events. His stay was coordinated [...] (Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:52:48 +0000)More...
FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn speaks about digital literacy (Yesterday at 2:53 PM)
Earlier this week at America's Digital Inclusion Summit, FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn detailed the recommendation for a National Digital Literacy plan, including the creation of a Digital Literacy Corps. Here are her complete remarks: FCC/Knight America's Digital Inclusion-Mignon Clyburn from The Newseum on Vimeo. (Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:53:12 +0000)More...
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National Broadband Plan will increase digital literacy (Tuesday at 7:48 PM)
The National Broadband Plan aims to have broadband in 90% of American households by 2020 (currently, the number is somewhere around 65%). Affordable access is only a piece of the plan, however. The FCC recommends the creation of a three-part National Digital Literacy Program. During the America's Digital Inclusion Summit, FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, at right, [...] (Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:48:48 +0000)More...
New contest to create easier online access to government services (Tuesday at 2:21 PM)
America's Digital Inclusion Summit has concluded. Video from the Summit will be posted later. In the meantime, you can view tweets about the event by following #BBplan. During the opening remarks of America's Digital Inclusion Summit, Knight Foundation President and CEO Alberto Ibargüen announced a new contest to develop web apps that would access government and [...] (Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:21:13 +0000)More...
Live: FCC previews recommendations for National Broadband Plan (Tuesday at 2:18 PM)
America's Digital Inclusion Summit has concluded. Video from the Summit will be posted later. In the meantime, you can view tweets about the event by following #BBplan. In opening remarks at today's America's Digital Inclusion Summit, Knight Foundation's President and CEO Alberto Ibargüen said: "The FCC believes, as we at Knight Foundation do, that you cannot have [...] (Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:18:54 +0000)More...
What Knight Foundation and it's grantees are learning from the Community Information Challenge (Friday at 7:15 PM)
Earlier this week, Knight Foundation hosted the Media Learning Seminar to help inform community foundations about the information needs of communities in a democracy. As traditional local news sources and investigative reporting decline, citizens are increasingly involved in the co-creation of new information sources, including online news startups, localized Twitter feeds from political candidates and [...] (Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:15:59 +0000)More...
SXSW Interactive: Picks for Journalists (Thu., March 4, 7:06 PM)
South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive, the year's most anticipated tech conference, is just around the corner - kicking off on Friday, Mar. 12 in Austin, Texas. Many of today's biggest web and mobile apps were launched during SXSW, including Twitter (2007) and Foursquare (2009). There's a lot of speculation about what this year's big hit [...] (Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:06:31 +0000)More...
Havana-Miami: Documentary project explores cultural connection between two cities (Thu., March 4, 5:21 PM)
Living just 90 miles apart, the lives of a dozen young Cuban women and men, six in Havana and six in Miami, are being chronicled in an online documentary project, Havana-Miami. In an article in the Miami Herald, Ilan Ziv, executive producer of the project, says: The idea behind Havana-Miami is to use human experiences that are [...] (Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:21:46 +0000)More...
Shorty Awards winners announced (Thu., March 4, 3:30 AM)
Winners of the second annual Shorty Awards were announced Thursday night at TheTimesCenter in New York. CNN's Rick Sanchez (@richsanchezcnn) hosted the ceremony, which featured acceptance speeches by Cory Booker, Suze Orman and Rachel Maddow, as well as an appearance by Sesame Street's Grover. The Shorties honor the best in real-time short form content, and in [...] (Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:30:19 +0000)More...