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    1. $6 billion for rural broadband: a hatchet or a scalpel?

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Daily, Geoff (author) and App-Rising.com
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2009-01-15
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28742
    Notes:
    2 pages., Suggests the U.S. government use funds from an economic stimulus package to establish and operate a Rural Fiber Fund.

    3. Africa short on phones despite mobile phone growth

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2004-09
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C24022
    Journal Title:
    Appropriate Technology
    Journal Title Details:
    31(3) : 49
    Notes:
    Apart from describing the shortage of mobile phones, the report indicates that growth in mobile phone usage is concentrated in urban areas and is "creating a widening communication gap between rural and urban communities."

    4. An update on rural broadband

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Abraham, Bridget (author) and Center for the Study of Rural America
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2003-10
    Published:
    USA: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: C20316
    Notes:
    4 pages; from "The Main Street Economist : Commentary on the Rural Economy"

    5. Bridging the rural digital divide: global partnerships to exploit the new technologies

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Rudgard, Stephen (author) and CAB International, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK.
    Format:
    Paper
    Publication Date:
    2009-10-21
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29639
    Notes:
    Presented as a PowerPoint at the CABI Global Summit, October 19-21, 2009, London, UK. 19 pages.

    7. Broadband internet's value for rural America

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Morehart, Mitch (author), Stenberg, Peter (author), Brown, Dennis (author), Cromartie, John (author), Vogel, Stephen (author), and Breneman, Vince (author)
    Format:
    Abstract
    Publication Date:
    2009-08
    Published:
    USA: Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29243
    Notes:
    Economic Research Report No. ERR-78. 70 pages.