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The City of Boston has submitted a trio of proposals to try to bring in $15 million in stimulus funding to support a new Boston Broadband Network, according to the office of Mayor Thomas M. Menino.
According to city officials, Boston will match the proposals with $4.2 million in existing city resources to support the three new initiatives: Boston’s Broadband Network; the Public Computing Center; and the Sustainable Broadband Adoption program. The goal of each program, officials say, is to help bridge the “digital divide” and bring broadband and computing resources to underserved communities.
The three proposals are targeted at the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program, which was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and administered by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
Boston’s CIO Bill Oates said in a statement that the three programs the funds would be applied to include resources and planning from various city agencies, such as information technologies, libraries, schools, community centers, Jobs and Community Services and the Timothy Smith Network.
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