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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.

    4. A blind curve on the info highway?

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Schulken, Mary (author / Charlotte Observer)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2009-02-20
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28841
    Journal Title:
    Charlotte Observer (North Caroline)
    Notes:
    Via online issues. 2 pages., Author alerts readers to a move to "put the mapping for where service is needed in the hands of Connected Nation, a company representing big telecommunications companies."

    6. A window on the wider world? Rural children's use of information and communication technologies

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Valentine, Gill (author) and Holloway, Sarah L. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2001-10
    Published:
    UK
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23957
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Rural Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    17(4) : 383-394
    Notes:
    "Our findings expose a clear contrast between the ambitious and future oriented ways in which adults imagine ICTwill expand their children's educational and employment opportunities, and social and special horizons, and the everyday ways in which these technologies actually emerge for children in practice."

    7. 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."

    8. 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.

    9. 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