Nashville, TN – Connected Tennessee is calling on Tennessee communities to assist with creating a more accurate picture of broadband availability in Tennessee, using Connected Tennessee’s cutting-edge mapping tool, BroadbandStat. The input from consumers will be used to ultimately increase private investment into unserved and underserved areas by broadband providers.
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Washington, DC – Connected Tennessee’s Computers 4 Kids program will receive $2.3 million in federal funding in an effort to increase sustainable broadband adoption and provide computers and training to over 60,000 disadvantaged youth across the state.
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Linden, TN – Today, Connected Tennessee’s Computers 4 Kids (C4K) program and Perry County leaders gathered to celebrate the progress that Perry County has made since partnering with Connected Tennessee and AT&T one year ago to bring increased technology and opportunity to Perry County.
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Nashville, TN – Connected Tennessee launched today a new interactive mapping tool for viewing, analyzing, and validating broadband data available via the Connected Tennessee website at http://www.connectedtn.org/.
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Washington, D.C. – Connected Tennessee was in the spotlight at today’s 13th Annual Kickoff Technology Policy Exhibition on Capitol Hill, as executive director Michael Ramage demonstrated a new interactive mapping tool for viewing, analyzing and validating broadband data that will soon be available via the Connected Tennessee website at http://www.connectedtn.org/.
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Nashville, TN – Connected Tennessee announced today the appointment of Alyson Sumerford as East Tennessee’s State Operations Manager.
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Nashville, TN – Tennessee will receive $1.8 million in federal funding for broadband mapping and planning in an effort to increase the availability and use of high-speed Internet service in the state.
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Memphis, TN – Yesterday, the digital inclusion work of Connected Tennessee was highlighted during a Federal Communications Commission’s field hearing in Memphis.
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Kingsport, TN – Connected Tennessee’s Computers 4 Kids (C4K) program took the spotlight at yesterday’s 7th Annual TechStar Awards luncheon in Kingsport, winning the “Community Service” award for commitment of time and resources to improve the community through technology.
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Nashville, TN – Today, Connected Tennessee’s Computers 4 KidsSM (C4K) program celebrated the donation of its 2,000th computer at the State Capitol’s Old Supreme Court Chambers with the distribution of computers to more than a hundred area youth.
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Ripley, TN – Today, the Lauderdale community of Nankipoo announced the grand opening of the first Community Computer Center funded in Tennessee under the USDA Community Connect Program.
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Philadelphia, PA – At last week’s National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Legislative Summit, the work of Connected Tennessee drew praise from a number of Tennessee state officials for its ground-breaking efforts to expand the presence of broadband throughout the State of Tennessee.
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Washington, DC - Connected Nation, with the help of ArcGIS technology from ESRI, has developed a new interactive on-line mapping tool to equip states with Census Block level broadband data and arm applicants with required data for broadband infrastructure funds now available through the U.S. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

Nashville, TN - Today, Connected Tennessee announced the release of an updated version of the statewide broadband inventory map that illustrates the extent of broadband services available across Tennessee.
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Linden, TN – On the heels of Governor Bredesen’s announcement of a plan to put people to work and reduce the unemployment rate in Perry County, Connected Tennessee announced today that its Computers 4 Kids program will be donating 20 brand new Dell computers to the county’s Summer Youth Employment Program.
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Geneva, Switzerland – Today, the International Telecommunications Union presented its prestigious World Telecommunications and Information Society (WTIS) Award to Deborah Taylor Tate, of Nashville, Tennessee, a former member of the Federal Communications Commission and now a distinguished adjunct senior fellow at the Free State Foundation.
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Nashville, TN – Connected Tennessee announced today the appointment of Corey Johns as Connected Tennessee’s East Tennessee Project Manager.
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Nashville, TN - Today, Connected Tennessee announced the release of the third edition of Tennessee’s Technology Trends – the State of Tennessee’s first comprehensive technology survey. The two-part assessment highlights use and impact of computers, the Internet and broadband technology among Tennessee residents and businesses.
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Nashville, TN – Today, Governor Phil Bredesen and Connected Tennessee’s Computers 4 Kids program presented 183 deserving foster children in the Davidson County and Mid-Cumberland regions with brand new Dell laptops valued at over $100,000.
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NASHVILLE, TN - Today, Connected Tennessee announced the release of the second edition of Tennessee’s Technology Trends, which reveals that today, one half of all Tennesseans have broadband service at home, up from 43% just six months ago.
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NASHVILLE, TN - Economic and Community Development Commissioner Matt Kisber and Mark Bengel, Chief Information Officer for the State of Tennessee, today introduced Connected Tennessee’s Computers 4 Kids initiative.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a report released last week measuring the economic impact of broadband, Tennessee stands to see a $2.4 billion economic impact from a modest increase in broadband adoption.
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NASHVILLE, TN - Today, Connected Tennessee announced the release of the nation’s first county-by-county reading of average Internet speeds across Tennessee.
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