[1st-mile-nm] NEW MEXICO AWARDED NTIA GRANT FOR BROADBAND MAPPING & PLANNING

[Harris, Brian]

Excellent news!  Congratulations on all your hard work.

Brian Harris

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.com> wrote:

> NEW MEXICO AWARDED NTIA GRANT FOR BROADBAND MAPPING & PLANNING
>
> NTIA has awarded the New Mexico Department of Information Technology
> approximately $1.4 million for broadband data collection and mapping
> activities
> over a two-year period and $500,000 for broadband planning activities over
> a
> five-year period in New Mexico, bringing the total grant award to
> approximately
> $1.9 million. The Department of Information Technology is the designated
> entity
> for the State of New Mexico.
>
> New Mexico is one of ten states to have awards announced today.   The State
> Broadband Data and Development Grant Program is a matching grant program
> that
> implements the joint purposes of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
> and
> the Broadband Data Improvement Act (BDIA). The program is providing grants
> to
> assist states or their designees in gathering and verifying state-specific
> data
> on the availability, speed, location, and technology type of broadband
> services.
>  The data they collect and compile will also be used to develop publicly
> available state-wide broadband maps and to inform the comprehensive,
> interactive, and searchable national broadband map that NTIA is required by
> the
> Recovery Act to create and make publicly available by February 17, 2011.
>
> http://www.ntia.doc.gov
>
>
> --
> Richard Lowenberg
> 1st-Mile Institute
> P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
> 505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
> rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com
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