Several NTIA Broadband Technology Opportunities Program cities were...
Several NTIA Broadband Technology Opportunities Program cities were winners at the 2013 Digital Cities awards, said Laura Breeden, Commerce Department BTOP team leader, in a blog post Monday (http://1.usa.gov/1bb6IbE). The Center for Digital Government, a research and advisory firm for…
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technology in state and local government, gave out the awards at the National League of Cities annual conference in Seattle last month, said Breeden. Boston, which took first place in the “large population” category, received two BTOP grants: to install computers in community anchor institutions and for its Technology Goes Home program to provide digital literacy training, subsidized netbooks and low-cost Internet access to low-income middle and high school students, she said. Chicago was also recognized on the Digital Cities list, and BTOP funds were used in the city to install or upgrade more than 3,000 computers and offer digital literacy training, said Breeden. Chicago received a separate BTOP grant for its Smart Communities program to provide Internet training and computer equipment to local residents and small businesses in five low- to moderate-income neighborhoods, she said. Philadelphia was also near the top of the Digital Cities list, where a citywide partnership called KeySpots established 79 computer centers that offer computer classes and digital literacy training to local youth, the unemployed, people with disabilities and low-income residents, said Breeden. Los Angeles, Calif.; Seattle, Wash.; Austin, Texas; Winston-Salem, N.C.; and Lowell, Mass., also benefited from BTOP funding, she said.