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    2. AgriStar high-speed satellite Internet closes digital divide

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    AgriStar Global Networks, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois
    Format:
    News release
    Publication Date:
    2004-12
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: C21814
    Notes:
    Release distributed by AgPRonline, www.agpronline.com., "100% of rural America now has access to broadband Internet service."

    3. An alternative to rural broadband grants: the Rural Fiber Fund

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Daily, Geoff (author) and App-Rising.com
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2009-01-19
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28744
    Notes:
    2 pages., Argues for government support of fiber optics as the best approach to broadband services in rural areas.

    4. Beyond community networking and CTCs: access, development and public policy

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Waters, Jody (author), Strover, Sharon (author), and Chapman, Gary (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2004
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 184 Document Number: D00131
    Journal Title:
    Telecommunications Policy
    Journal Title Details:
    28 : 465-485

    6. Broadband adoption of agriculture and local government councils - Australia and the USA

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Australian Government, Barton, ACT.
    Format:
    Report
    Publication Date:
    2004-08
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27002
    Notes:
    Executive summary posted at www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/HCC/04-127sum.html; full report posted at www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/HCC/04-127.pdf, RIRDC Publication No. 04/127. 127 pages.

    8. Can ICT (information and communication technologies) in small and medium-sized enterprises overcome remoteness?

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Greller, Wolfgang (author) and Mackay, Mary (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2002
    Published:
    Scotland
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 189 Document Number: D01881
    Journal Title:
    Rural Society Journal
    Journal Title Details:
    12(3) : 246-262

    10. Declare the war won

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Compaine, Benjamin M. (author)
    Format:
    Book chapter
    Publication Date:
    2001
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36364
    Notes:
    Pages 243-262 in Benjamin M. Compaine (ed.), The digital divide: facing a crisis or creating a myth? MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 357 pages., Author suggests that the digital divide may be disappearing on its own through declining cost, natural acculturation and growing availability. Observes that the lower cost of living in rural areas may more than compensate for having to pay higher rates closer to full cost of telecommunications.