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The Knight Center of Digital Excellence held its first Stimulus Webcast Session for Knight communities and program directors July 23. Watch it online now.
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By pushing hard on broadband, lawmakers hope to close the "digital divide" that has long separated rural America. In doing so, they hope to give rural consumers access to the same sorts of high-speed services and opportunities - think telemedicine, distance-learning and Web-based commerce - that city dwellers have enjoyed for years.
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Welcome to Community Connection

Welcome to Community Connection, the blog for the Knight Center of Digital Excellence.

Want to know more about how to build a broadband infrastructure in your community; create new jobs, and reinvent your community for the 21st century?

This is the place. We will help you understand what you need to do.  And if you have questions, we’ll try to answer them.

The Knight Center of Digital Excellence is a nonprofit community organization created to assist communities in sifting through the many complicated issues surrounding broadband implementation.

Our mission is to help you figure out what you need to create a connected community.

Subscribing now will allow you to receive regular updates about new technologies, trends, and ways to leverage broadband connectivity for business, education, healthcare and public safety in your community. Becoming a subscriber of Community Connection will also allow you to post comments and questions that are specific to your location.

It is all about collaboration.

Just as we bring leaders to the same table in communities across the United States, this blog will bring together thought leaders for virtual collaboration. We will also share best practices for leveraging existing resources, obtaining new investment, and developing strategies to create economic growth in your connected community.

We will bring you input from civic leaders, technology and subject matter experts, and most importantly communities involved in different phases of discovery, development and implementation. The Knight Center has already started working with cities such as Miami, Fla., Akron, Ohio, and Detroit, Mich., and we will keep you updated on their successes as well as their challenges throughout the process.

By the way, the Knight Center of Digital Excellence is operated by the Cleveland nonprofit OneCommunity and is funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation that was announced in April of 2008.  We are the first national nonprofit resource center that is dedicated to creating sustainable universal digital access programs in individual communities.

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